Bought a 2T WD MC yesterday. I looked at what others said and was encouraged by how flexible the product seemed. Unfortunately I was reading about old versions. For some insane reason WD appears to have changed their software to restrict the use of this product. For starters thereās no longer a power down option in utilities i.e. if you need to power down you need to yank the power cord and hope for the best, knowing thereās a good chance youāll lose data.
The most insane restriction is on accessing data. Iāve bought and paid for 2T of space - how on earth does it benefit WD to make it so difficult to mount folders in this space I OWN!?! Of course I could use ssh and go in there and undo their crazy restrictions but, if I go to activate this feature, it warns me that doing so will invalidate my warranty!
If I donāt get any joy out of it in the next 24h itāll have to go back. Canāt spend that kind of money for a product that canāt deliver. Pity, because itās a good looking piece of kit, but I didnāt buy it to look good!
Mount folders? What exactly are you trying to do, on what operating system? Remember, itās a NAS, not an external HDD, and you access it as a file server, not as a simple disk drive.
The MyCloud supports āsharesā, which are, essentially, a userās top level folder, but you can also create other shares, in addition to the pre-existing Public share.
Once you have a āshareā, it can be mapped into your operating systemās file system, after which you can treat it like any other local disk drive (even though itās a NAS).
You need to take care when mapping in windows, since windows wonāt let you use mixed credentials to access network drives. Therefore, you must map all shares (including Public) using the credentials of one MyCloud User.
If you havenāt already, you should download and read the User Manual.
ps. sadly, the user manual will tell you thereās a shutdown buttonā¦
We know. Numerous prior threads discuss the lack of a shutdown option with the newer v2.x firmware. There are a variety of methods to shut down the newer gen v2.x My Clouds including using WD Quick View previously mentioned, modifying the Dashboard page with a web browser to temporarily unhide the shut down button, and using SSH to issue the shutdown command.
Past discussion on the missing shutdown button for newer gen My Clouds and some workarounds:
Not sure what your talking about here. One can create the intial Shares through the Dashboard and from there use Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder to create sub folders.
Further one can āmapā those shares or sub folders within a Share to their computer.