SET UP WIRED SERVER WITH WD MY CLOUD HOW TO

I saw a 'Connect As.' box, which I clicked on. I found the drive under 'Shared', which had my iMac and the M圜loud listed. I hadn't used the sidebar since Jaguar, probably. I always set up my new machines to mount volumes on the desktop so I can do most actions from there.

SET UP WIRED SERVER WITH WD MY CLOUD HOW TO

If anyone can offer any help on how to use this as an external, non-backup volume I'd appreciate it.

I just want this thing to serve movies locally, behind my firewall. Everything I read is for people who want to use it as a remote backup for iOS devices, not for someone who wants an actual NAS.

I've been searching around on WD support, which is just about worthless. I saw there was a USB port on the back, so I hunted down the appropriate cable and connected the drive directly to the iMac, but that failed as well. I need to clean 600MB of movies off my iMac, not duplicate the drive remotely. Time Machine was able to see it down to the model number, but I wasn't going to use this for Time Machine. I plugged an ethernet cable in to the LAN port on the AE, and ran it to the new drive. There's a string of numbers on a sticker at the bottom, and thats all. There were no instructions in the box, just a card that looked like a bookmark with some basic art that apparently represents the router and the drive, along with an iOS device. I spotted a 4TB Western Digital M圜loud Home for under $180 so I bought it. I have a new iMac, final generation Airport Extreme, and I needed a large drive to act as a movie share for my Infuse setup.

Set up wired server with wd my cloud