I have a WD 3 TB WD MyCloud device and it works great. It is attached to my router and all was good from my machines.
However I now moved to a shared apartment, where the only option is to put the WD Drive on the shared hub where multiple Windows/Mac users are present. Anyone who is physically on the network (wireless or wired) now sees my drive and started access photos and documents from it. These are my roommates, but I don’t want them to see my personal photos / videos or documents.
Eg if the IP address of the drive is 192.168.0.10, anyone on the Windows laptop who types \192.168.0.10 gets full access to all my shares, private, public nothing comes into play, its open for all.
How can I restrict access to the device??
I tried going to Windows sharing and removing permissions, but since the permissions are checked against 192.168.0.10, I cannot add any user permissons for the drive share.
Please I need this info, its rendering my drive useless as others can see it.
Have you read the My Cloud User Manual (http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/?id=439&type=25)? In particular the chapters on Users and Shares? If not you should. One can setup Users and configure Shares to Private so a person would be required to use a User name and enter a Password to access a Private Share. Any content in the Public folder or a Share configured for Public will be visible to anyone who accesses the My Cloud.
Also make sure to enable a password for the My Cloud Administrator so the Dashboard is password protected.
One word of note. Any media in a Share that has Media Serving set to ON will be accessible by any DLNA client on the local network even if that Share is set to Private. To prevent access to that media, set the Share’s Media Serving to OFF.
