Remote access for myCloud problem

Hi. I’ve got a mycloud WDBCTL0040HWT-10 that I’ve had for a few years. It has Firmware 5.21.104.
I can directly access the drive contents through Windows Explorer or Mac finder over my home network, and it is taking backups via the same route, however, I can’t access the remote dashboard anymore, other than directly.

On the dashboard it says Cloud access is disabled on the homepage which explains why I can’t access the web dashboard,. When I follow that arrow and try to activate cloud access I get error 1002 and it won’t initiate. What am I doing wrong? This used to be on and available all the time.

Thanks in advance

Does the My Cloud Dashboard > Settings > Network status section indicate it is connected to the internet?

Some relevant WD Knowledge Base Articles that may be of assistance:

My Cloud OS 5: Cloud Access Device Offline
https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/30050

My Cloud OS 5: How to Add Users and Enable Cloud Access
https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29448

My Cloud OS 5: Online User Guide and Solutions
https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29633

Hi - yes the first line on that tab says it has internet access - I’ll take a look athe knowledge articles
Thanks!

The instructions are just the standard - they say to log into your admin user with your mycloud sign in. When I do that, it gives me a message box saying “updating” then about 2minutes later I get the error message I referred to in the original post.

@R.WOOD

Is this what you want to see? Have you tried mycloud.com ?

What do you have set for this? Settings>Network>Web Dashboard Services.

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@R.WOOD

If nothing works reboot your device and then check the Dashboard. See image below.

If you are shown as signed out then sign in and see what happens.

Hi - yes that’s what I want to see but just says device offline (interestingly I just relogged into mycloud.com and for a brief second the web page showed my device folders, but then went back to offline and no information shown. I do what that setting on dashboard services as you show.

It won’t let me sign into my cloud account to enable the activation of web access. I get this error each time but I don’t know what that means

I do have an active internet connection by the way!

The following WD Knowledge Base Articles may, or may not, have some suggestions.

My Cloud OS 5: Something Went Wrong - Having Trouble Connecting to Your Device

My Cloud OS 5: Something Went Wrong - Cloud User Invitation Failed

My Cloud OS 5 & My Cloud Home: “Oops something went wrong” When Trying to Sign In to Mobile App

My Cloud OS 5: How to Reset a My Cloud OS 5 Device

Thank you - I’ve done the 40s reset and then done the setup again - seems to all be working as it should again!!! |Very relieved