Instruction to connect My Cloud Home Duo directly to computer

[DonC]

Hi Guys,

My mother does not have a router.
I’ve been searching for instructions to connect the My Cloud Home Duo directly but cant find any. Any suggestions \ links?

Thanks

[cat0w]

@DonC

user-manual-my-cloud-home.pdf

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My Cloud Home Duo - Important Update About Access To Your Files for Local Access - My Cloud Home - Personal Cloud Storage / My Cloud Home Duo - WD Community

[NoPlex]

@DonC

I’ve been searching for instructions to connect the My Cloud Home Duo directly but cant find any. Any suggestions \ links?

Have you tried searching (magnifying glass icon top right) for ‘direct connection’ in the MCH or MCH Duo subforums?

MCH and MCHD required DHCP in order to get an assigned IP address. If you don’t have a router, you can’t usually get an IP address unless you can specify it in the device but the MCH’s firmware does not allow setting a static address as it can be done with other NAS type devices. Therefore you have to set the IP through Windows or macOS ‘Internet connection sharing’ (ICS) functionality which has a built in DHCP server that is rarely advertised or discussed.

In the past few years, MCH users tried and failed and thought direct connection cannot be done, but it can, with the following simple instruction.

How to solve slow or fast breathing LED in 10 minutes with direct ethernet connection and ICS, enable local access, copy data or isolate My Cloud Home from the internet

ICS = Internet Connection Sharing. One step configuration. This is as easy as networking gets. [image] One of the most vexing problem for the home user of MCH (My Cloud Home) is the damnable slow or fast white LED breathing light. Slow breathing is associated with server or internet problem while Fast is usually an ethernet connection problem. The solution offer here is to use a direct ethernet cable connection between a computer (PC or Mac) to MCH. In the past, direct connection has bee…

[DonC]

@NoPlex

In the past few years, MCH users tried and failed and thought direct connection cannot be done, but it can, with the following simple instruction.

Thanks a lot for the informative reply.
I shipped the drive to my mother and have since found out that not only does she not have a regular router, but the laptop also doesnt have any ethernet ports… I dont suppose a connection to the laptop using a network to usb connector would work?

[NoPlex]

@DonC

I dont suppose a connection to the laptop using a network to usb connector would work?

The instruction is in the thread, USB network adapters should work for ICS. Just one observation if I may, the MCH and MCHDuo are not the easiest storage to set up and troubleshoot for an older person, perhaps a large USB storage drive could do just as well.

@NoPlex

Requirements:

• working laptop/desktop with both WiFi and ethernet adapters, USB types okay. **
• working WiFi internet is available at this location.
• a working ethernet cable between computer and My Cloud Home

**The only requirement is actually that there are two network adapters of any type, one of which could connect to the internet.

[DonC]

@NoPlex

The instruction is in the thread, USB network adapters should work for ICS.

Excellent, so there is a chance.

@NoPlex

Just one observation if I may, the MCH and MCHDuo are not the easiest storage to set up and troubleshoot for an older person, perhaps a large USB storage drive could do just as well.

I totally agree. Im sorry I bought the thing.
It was advertised that it could run plex… but when I looked, it wasnt overly impressive.

Its all I had and couldnt save for another drive and set it up by the time It was taken to my parents in another country.