Hi - until yesterday I could happily access MyCloud using either start button + R on my windows 8.1 keyboard or via the network in windows explorer. Then suddenly, Windows began asking me for my credentials - I have tried every combination of passwords I can remember and none have worked. I went online to find a fix and tried resetting my credentials - nothing happened there apart from the fact that I now get a dialog box teling me I have mutiple connections to the same user name (???). I can still access MyCloud using the desktop app (but not in windows explorer). Unfortunately, using the app means I canât upload anything larger than 1GB as the upload always jams at 999MB.
The only recent major change I have made to anything was to change my windows account password - would this have an impact on MyCloud?
it sounds like you are connected to a public share and that connection was established before the private share. Windows only allows one Windows user to connect as a single user to a remote computer at a time, if public is 1st then that is what you are. if you connect private 1st then public is ok too.
you may need to manually clear credentials and reboot to full clear this
this dosnât sound like the same issue. this sounds like the overall_share issue
Can you still see the shares in the desktop or momil apps?
it sounds like you need to do a system only restore, this leaves shares & data in place, everthing else like new
on other work around I played with and may work (it wonât hurt anything) is go into the UI/shares and change the premission of each share from private to public and back again, set the permissions. if a share is public make it private and back. donât rush this and do 1 at a time. if you rush it you will probably trash the overall share file again
If you use SSH once you have this working I would create a backup of /etc/samba/overall_share
for example cp -p /etc/samba/overall_share ~username/overall_share.bak where username is your mycloud user all lowercase
Samba logs seems to indicate that a database is recreatedâŠ
[2015/02/24 20:16:08.164957, 0] winbindd/winbindd_cache.c:3147(initialize_winbindd_cache)
 initialize_winbindd_cache: clearing cache and re-creating with version number 2
[2015/02/24 20:42:36.737949, 0] (pidfile_unlink)
 Failed to delete pidfile /var/run/smbd.pid. Error was No such file or directory
[2015/02/24 20:42:38.857311, 0] winbindd/winbindd.c:212(winbindd_sig_term_handler)
 Got sig[15] terminate (is_parent=1)
Thanks so much for taking the time to respond to my question - the system only restore did the trick. Iâm back in using Explorer. You have saved me from ripping my hair out - much appreciated! NowâŠonto the Windows forum to find out what the **bleep** my Windows Credentials are
I have been trying to get Windows Credentials not to open when trying to access my wd from my work computer.
I have tried all the above but cant get this Windows Credentials from coming up all the time and every time. when im looking at photos they load right away but any files and it just stops, I put the password in and it starts to load but never fully does the has only started happening.
I wish i could take this back as it does not do what is says it does IE cant access any file so in my mind not a cloud .
put a '' in front of your WDMYCLOUD username and then use the password you setup. For instance if your username on the WD is âjohnâ then put â\johnâ for username and then type in your password and see if that doesnât let you in.
This just happened to me on my Lenovo laptop running Windows 10. Between one night and the next morning I was unable to access my WDMYCLOUD via File Explorer. I received the Windows Security error âEnter Network Credentials for WDMYCLOUDMIRRORâ.
What finally resolved this was entering WDMYCLOUDMIRROR \ [username] and password for that user. I am now able to access my device and shares.
I have just run into the same problem. I donât access my My Cloud that often so I donât know what caused it. How do I perform a âsystem only restoreâ?
Thanks Rhane_Thomas . I have been tearing hair out of my head trying to find out where/what these credentials were. Not even WD could come up with a simply answer.
I had this problem suddenly this morning and read many threads on this site. I did the methods 2 & 3 from link below and fixed it. I reverted method 2 registry fix (regedit fix) and keeps working. So maybe just METHOD 3 (reseting network settings) is needed:
WINDOWS 10 METHOD 3 from link below
RESET NETWORK SETTINGS:
Hold the Windows Key and Press I (gives you windows settings)
Choose Network & Internet
Make sure Status is selected in the left pane.
Scroll down and choose Network Reset, and confirm by Clicking Reset Now.
REBOOT PC
METHOD 2 from link below:
Insecure Guest allowed (NOT IDEAL, try above method first)
Press Windows Logo key + R to bring up a Run
Type regedit into the Run dialog and press the Enter key to open the Registry Editor.
Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation
in the left pane.
Click on the LanmanWorkstation key to display its contents in the right pane.
Right-click on an empty space in the right pane, hover over New and click on DWORD (32-bit) value.
Name the new DWORD value AllowInsecureGuestAuth.
Double-click on the new value and, in the dialog that opens up, change its value to 1 and then click on OK.
Close the Registry Editor and restart your computer, and when your computer boots up, you will be able to successfully access your WD My Cloud account without any issues.
AFTER REBOOT I DELETED THIS ENTRY AGAIN AND STILL NO PROBLEM
TRY DELETING IT AFTER PROBLEM GOES AWAY, but try method 3 first before trying method 2
Hopes it helps someone, source was (step 1 was useless):