Map mycloud as hdd on a remote macbook

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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Hi,
I can’t seem to find the correct way to map my “mycloud” NAS as a network drive on my macbook. i’ve tried “connect to a server” in finder with my external IP but this doesn’t work. I keep on getting an error connecting to the server.
I’ve got the wd mycloud app which is working correctly from a remote network but I’d rather map is as an actual drive.
Any advice?

thx

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Did you switch on AFP in “general settings - network” of your MyCloud? Then, in the finder, connect to server:

afp://YOURCLOUD’SNAME/

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there’s no option in the settings to enable AFP but when I check the manual I find this:
“Supported protocols CIFS/SMB, NFS, FTP, AFP” . This is the only hit in the manual when searching for AFP or SMB.
in finder on a remote network, do I write “afp://myexternalip” ??

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If you’re wanting to map your drive remotely (I.e. when away from your local network), I’m sorry to tell you that WD removed that facility with the OS3 firmware ‘upgrade’.

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So, when on a remote network, there is NO other way to connect to the network drive than with the wd app?

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Correct. Outside of MyCloud.com, the FTP and the WD apps/software there is no other officially supported way to remotely access the drive. When WD revamped the WD2Go.com (now MyCloud.com) website during their rollout of the OS 3 firmware they removed the option to “map” a drive remotely through the website. Feel free to voice your opinion in the following thread on the remote drive mapping issue…

https://community.wd.com/t/re-enable-remote-drive-mapping-through-mycloud-com/134944/2

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No, I was talking about being in your home network.