No Shared folders available when internet is disconnected

Hi all. Need help and advice with my WD EX4 . Unfortunately im not very experienced with networking but hope my problem can be fixed. I have shared folders on my EX4 & remote media devices that connect via Window Network (SMB) that all seem to work fine when my internet router has connection. I normally can connect to my EX4 using the assigned DHCP IP address. Once there is no internet I can’t access my shares any more and my android box’s can no loner connect to the EX4. Is this due to using DHCP instead of static? when internet drops out which is very often my local network disappears until its restored. So hoping to make small changes that allow my LAN to stay active even when the Internet is disconnected.
Any help would be great.

Hi fruca,

You can switch from DHCP to Static IP and map the network drive. So, in future if internet drops then the IP address of the My Cloud would remail same and share folder would be mapped.

Please refer to the link given below for more information.

https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=14939