For the My Cloud using the ethernet cable to the router, it’s a bit more involved.
[Note: making these changes may invalidate the warrantee on the My Cloud device! If that matters to you, check with WD first!]
First, open your terminal and enter this: sudo apt-get install nfs-common
Next, find the IP address your router has assigned the drive. That will be 192.168.xxx.xxx Note it carefully.
Open your My Cloud window, and select setting. You’ll see Network Select that, and you’ll see “Network node” It will be set to DHCP. Change it to “Static”. It will ask for an address, and enter the exact IP number you got from your router. Under netmask, I put 255.255.255.0 and that worked quite well for me.
If you screw up and find your computer is going “what drive, boss?” at you, don’t panic. Just turn the drive off for a minute, and then, as it’s starting up, stick a paper clip in the reset hole in back and hold it there for about 40 (yes, forty) seconds. It will reset to default settings, but your data, etc., will be intact. Then you can try it again.
