I need help, I’ve been search for hours and now days and I just want to access this thing I bought. I can do it on Windows no problem and I’ve been searching for days at this problem it feels like it’s more complicated than it should be help. I have my drive plugged into my router, I have my Lubuntu computer plugged into my router. It’s not allowed to be as simple the shared folder popping up under the connected USBs that would be too easy I just want help please.
I can access the settings via typing the IP of the My Cloud into a browser. I’ve tried Gigolo ‘Connection refused by the server’. Does it tell you why? Of course not, what do you think this is?? I try connecting via ‘Go → connect to server’ in the File | edit | view toolbar of each window ‘SSH program unexpectedly exited’ ‘The specified location is not mounted’. And a few other tutorials I forget my head hurts.
I don’t speak Linux so if you decide to help me please spell it out it’s much appreciated I am learning. Yes I have Googled the problem with many varieties of searches and all conclude with here’s the fix it’s easy _____blablabla DONE which may as well be written in a blend of Japanese, Latin, binary and Middle Persian Sanskrit. Sorry for the attitude I just can’t believe the time this has taken. please help.
That is probably the best way, as the user does not seem to be a linux power user.
Some alternatives are to use NFS or SFTP. I use what is essentially xubuntu in a chroot living in a chromebook (via cruton), and I mount a share in my home directory on a mountpoint I called “NAS”, using NFS. (Due to using the developer channel, I have to use a FUSE based mounting system, called fuse-nfs, since I would have to basically recompile kernel modules every day to use kmode nfs filesystem drivers, due to being on the unstable/dev channel) This user is using real lubuntu, so that should not be a problem. Installing the appropriate support for nfs or sshfs would give them the ability to mount the nas as well.
I created some handy desktop application launchers that fire off the appropriate commands to either mount or unmount the share using NFS, so that when I want to deal with items on the NAS, I can, and then I can disconnect gracefully when I am done. Once mounted, the NAS appears to be part of my local filesystem, and any application will happily make use of it, not just the file manager.
But again, the user explicitly states that they are not a hardcore linux user, so “connect to server” in the file manager is probably the best option.
You cannot simply type an IP and click connect. You need to know the type, SSH, FTP, WebDAV. There are options for Port (1 has to be selected), Path and Login as. Anyway I follow the best I can I cant get passed step 6. HTTP ERROR: REDIRECT. The specified location is not mounted.
Thanks anyway for your effort pal I appreciate it.
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Lubuntu is not a supported OS you say??? Well that’s news to me.
Oh man I wish I was one of those Linux power users I’d just click my fingers and something that I’ve been trying to do in for a week would be done in a minute. Yeah mounting seems kind of deep. Okay so I download support for nfs? I can get this at the software center?
Assuming you have not switched to a different file manager, the one you are using is called pcmanfm. (it is the default one used by lxde, the desktop manager suite used by lubuntu)
the “connect to server” option would normally be under the [file] menu, but if it does not appear there, just type in the address on the address bar, and press enter.
EG, where it says “/home/[username]”, type in “smb://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/[share]” and press enter. It will ask for user credentials. give it what it wants, and it will mount your share and let you manage the files.
No linux system is supported directly by WD, as far as MyCloud goes.
Really, if you’ve chosen to use a linux OS, you really have little choice but to learn some basics of linux commands, otherwise you will continually encounter frustration. There are plenty of online tutorials and books; go find one and start learning.
YES! it worked. I’m in I thank you… omg what a relief. Thanks to everyone that posted and to dswv you saved me
I mean how are you supposed to know this though??? But yeah thanks everyone for the support and hopefully it will come up in searches to help others out.
Set-up was literally plug and play. There is an iOS App for iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch which allows upload to and download/stream from the NAS. The WD website and User Manual mention Mac and PC software to mount and sync that make connection a breeze. The device supports Time Capsule so I’ll be doing that with my Mac laptops (yes – there is no limit to how many computers connect to this thing). Then came my Linux laptop. There was no mention of Linux which is a shame since you would think that they are leveraging the community’s efforts in their products. But it was easy enough to connect my Lubuntu laptop as a Network File System (NFS) Client via three shell commands.
First, I changed directory to my home directory and created a nfs directory in there:
$ cd $HOME
$ mkdir nfs
Then I applied the following three shell commands:
$ sudo apt-get install nfs-common
$ showmount -e
$ sudo mount -o soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 192.168.1.132:/nfs ~/nfs/
device.
