<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv6389835021"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_19900"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_19899" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv6389835021yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459187474027_5945"><span id="yiv6389835021yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459187474027_5961"></span></div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_19898" class="yiv6389835021qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_19897">Hi Nathan,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_19905" dir="ltr"> thanks again. I can load stuff to the My Cloud and access it from my phone and tablet, though that is not what I thought I would be able to do, I thought it would copy my hard-drive. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20060" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20352" color="#cd232c"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20351"><br></i></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20356" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20352" color="#cd232c"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20351">sudo apt-get install nfs-common</i></font><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20114"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20115"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20301" color="#cd232c"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20300">If you're new to linux I'll give you a quick run down:<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20116">"sudo" means "run the rest of this command as Administrator. Normally<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20117">you'll have to put in your password for the command to work.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20118">"apt-get" is the package manager for Ubuntu, it's a pretty common tool and<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20119">you'll be using it a lot in your Linux journey. Most software is installed<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20120">this way.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20121">"install" tells apt-get we want to install<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20122">"nfs-common" is the thing you are installing. In this case it's a bunch of<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20123">tools to let Ubuntu know about the Network File System.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20124"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20126">> Open Nautilus and click 'connect to server'. Shown in picture below on<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20127">> bottom left. *Not sure How to open this.*<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20128">> A dialog box will show up that says 'connect to server' like in the<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20129">> picture below:<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20130">><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20131">> Now type nfs://hostname or static ip<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20132">><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20133">> Nautilus is the file browser on Ubuntu, very much like Explorer on<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20134">Windows. If you don't know where it is, search for it like you did for the<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20135">terminal. "Connect to server" is probably in the "File" menu, top left of<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20136">your screen. In this case you should probably type in nfs://wdmycloud or<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20137">nfs://wdmycloud.local. Hopefully it will connect and you'll be able to<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20138">store all your stuff on your new hard drive.</i></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20063" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20304" color="#cd232c"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20501" color="#000000">I always feel to intimidate to try printing in commands that might screw things up because I don't really know what I'm doing. So in the meantime, until I feel a bit more sure of what I'm doing with this new toy, I'll probably just keep using it as an external hard drive I can access from elsewhere. Thanks again. John.</font><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459241919084_20303"> </i></font><br></div></div><div class="yiv6389835021yqt6119636538" id="yiv6389835021yqt03967"></div></div></div></div><div class=".yiv6389835021yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, March 27, 2016 12:34 AM, Nathan Collins <mr.nathan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:<br clear="none"></font></div> <blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;margin-top:5px;padding-left:5px;"> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv6389835021y_msg_container">I did a little Googling for you, I don't have one of these devices, or<br clear="none">Ubuntu, so I can't actually try any of this stuff for you.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">It looks like the manual<br clear="none"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/UM/ENG/4779-705103.pdf">http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/UM/ENG/4779-705103.pdf</a>> is pretty<br clear="none">comprehensive, but I can understand your frustration trying to get<br clear="none">something to work on Linux when all the instructions are for Windows or Mac.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Log into the MyCloud management console. *How?*<br clear="none">><br clear="none">I think this is a website you need to go to, once you're connected your<br clear="none">drive to the power and your router (page 10 in the manual):<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://mycloud.com/setup">http://mycloud.com/setup</a><br clear="none">Following the rest of those steps to get your account set up, but I guess<br clear="none">at step 6 (page 14) it's not going to let you download any sync software.<br clear="none">This looks like the first caveat: you're probably not going to get an easy,<br clear="none">automatically syncing "cloud" like you would on Windows/Mac. You should<br clear="none">still be able to use it like a regular external hard drive though, and you<br clear="none">should still be able to access the "cloud" aspect of it from other devices,<br clear="none">either using the sync software or logging onto the mycloud.com website.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Assign a STATIC IP Address. *What is this?*<br clear="none">><br clear="none">Good question. Your router, that was probably given to you by your internet<br clear="none">provider, hands out IP addresses to other devices that connect to it so<br clear="none">that all the data it asks for over the network knows how to get back to it.<br clear="none">Normally when a device connects to your router, it gets given an IP address<br clear="none">that isn't being used. But next time it connects it might get given a<br clear="none">different one. This is known as a dynamic IP address. A Static IP address<br clear="none">is an IP address that doesn't change, it's the same every time your device<br clear="none">gets connected to the network. This is useful for accessing things like<br clear="none">your Cloud.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">It looks like you might be able to ignore this step for now though, because<br clear="none">your Cloud will probably respond to the address <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://wdmycloud/">http://wdmycloud </a>or<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://wdmycloud.local./">http://wdmycloud.local. </a>Skip this step, but if you need to set this I'm<br clear="none">afraid you will have to figure out how to log on to your router and set<br clear="none">that up - probably do a little Googling to figure that out. A good start is<br clear="none">to try and connect to 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 in your web browser. Those<br clear="none">are common IP addresses for home routers, but it may be different<br clear="none">especially given that you appear to have your internet provided by BT.<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://bthomehub.home/">http://bthomehub.home </a>might be a better guess. Once you've got that figured<br clear="none">out, pages 60 and 61 look like the right ones for telling your Cloud thingy<br clear="none">it has a static IP. (Again, ignore that for now).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Enable NFS service in MYCloud. *How?*<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I think it is already enabled by default, but I'm not sure. The only thing<br clear="none">that came up in the manual is that it's support. Some Googling suggested<br clear="none">you *"just"* need to connect to it, which is what the next bunch of steps<br clear="none">do.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On ubuntu client open Terminal. *Where is t**his?*<br clear="none">><br clear="none">If Ubuntu looks like I think it probably does for you, click the Ubuntu<br clear="none">icon in the top left corner of the screen. You'll probably get a window<br clear="none">full of programs, and a search bar at the top. Type in terminal and it<br clear="none">should come up.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">sudo apt-get install nfs-common<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you're new to linux I'll give you a quick run down:<br clear="none">"sudo" means "run the rest of this command as Administrator. Normally<br clear="none">you'll have to put in your password for the command to work.<br clear="none">"apt-get" is the package manager for Ubuntu, it's a pretty common tool and<br clear="none">you'll be using it a lot in your Linux journey. Most software is installed<br clear="none">this way.<br clear="none">"install" tells apt-get we want to install<br clear="none">"nfs-common" is the thing you are installing. In this case it's a bunch of<br clear="none">tools to let Ubuntu know about the Network File System.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Open Nautilus and click 'connect to server'. Shown in picture below on<br clear="none">> bottom left. *Not sure How to open this.*<br clear="none">> A dialog box will show up that says 'connect to server' like in the<br clear="none">> picture below:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Now type nfs://hostname or static ip<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Nautilus is the file browser on Ubuntu, very much like Explorer on<br clear="none">Windows. If you don't know where it is, search for it like you did for the<br clear="none">terminal. "Connect to server" is probably in the "File" menu, top left of<br clear="none">your screen. In this case you should probably type in nfs://wdmycloud or<br clear="none">nfs://wdmycloud.local. Hopefully it will connect and you'll be able to<br clear="none">store all your stuff on your new hard drive.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Anyway, I hope that helps. Like I said, I don't have an Ubuntu machine<br clear="none">here, nor have I ever set up a WD MyCloud thing, but I do have a small<br clear="none">grasp of the magical inner workings of a computer ;)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 26 March 2016 at 23:45, JOHN COUZIN <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:john.c.at95@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:john.c.at95@btinternet.com">john.c.at95@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Thanks Nathan, that's exactly how it was meant to look like,<br clear="none">> don't know what happened after I sent it. Hope there is some help comes<br clear="none">> from the correct data. John.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> On Saturday, March 26, 2016 11:42 PM, Nathan Collins <<br clear="none">> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mr.nathan.collins@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:mr.nathan.collins@gmail.com">mr.nathan.collins@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Hi John,<br clear="none">> I think your e-mail meant to look like this...<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Hi,<br clear="none">> My last email seems to have got scrabbled some how, so sorry for the double<br clear="none">> posting, but I wanted to make sure I pass on the correct information.<br clear="none">> I just purchased a WD My Cloud 3TB but I may have bought in haste, I don't<br clear="none">> seem to be able to get it up and working. I have Ubuntu 15.10 the<br clear="none">> instructions are for Windows and Mac. Searched to see how to over come this<br clear="none">> and got the following:<br clear="none">> Its pretty simple if you have an idea of what you are doing. *I don't!!*<br clear="none">> Log into the MyCloud management console. *How?*<br clear="none">> Assign a STATIC IP Address. *What is this?*<br clear="none">> Enable NFS service in MYCloud. *How?*<br clear="none">> On ubuntu client open Terminal. *Where is t**his?*<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> sudo apt-get install nfs-common<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Open Nautilus and click 'connect to server'. Shown in picture below<br clear="none">> on bottom left. *Not sure How to open this.*<br clear="none">> A dialog box will show up that says 'connect to server' like in the<br clear="none">> picture below:<br clear="none">> Now type nfs://hostname or static ip<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Close Terminal<br clear="none">> Sadly my knowledge of the magic inner workings of computers is very<br clear="none">> limited, any advice would be very welcome, in layman's terms of course. Or<br clear="none">> pop round and do it for me, oatcakes and cheese with coffee for reward.<br clear="none">> John.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> On 26 March 2016 at 22:39, JOHN COUZIN <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:john.c.at95@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:john.c.at95@btinternet.com">john.c.at95@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > On Saturday, March 26, 2016 10:17 PM, JOHN COUZIN <<br clear="none">> > <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:john.c.at95@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:john.c.at95@btinternet.com">john.c.at95@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > Hi,<br clear="none">> > My last email seems to have got scrabbled some how, so sorry for the<br clear="none">> > double posting, but I wanted to make sure I pass on the correct<br clear="none">> information.<br clear="none">> > I just purchased a WD My Cloud 3TB but I may have bought in haste, I<br clear="none">> > don't seem to be able to get it up and working. I have Ubuntu 15.10 the<br clear="none">> > instructions are for Windows and Mac. Searched to see how to over come<br clear="none">> this<br clear="none">> > and got the following: #yiv5371365982 pre.yiv5371365982cjk<br clear="none">> > {font-family:"Nimbus Mono L", monospace;}#yiv5371365982 p<br clear="none">> > {margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%;}#yiv5371365982<br clear="none">> > code.yiv5371365982cjk {font-family:"Nimbus Mono L", monospace;}Its pretty<br clear="none">> > simple if you have an idea of what you are doing. Idon't!!Log into<br clear="none">> the<br clear="none">> > MyCloud management console. How?Assign a STATIC IP Address.<br clear="none">> > What is this?Enable NFS service in MYCloud. How?<br clear="none">> > On ubuntu client open Terminal. Where isthis?sudo apt-get install<br clear="none">> > nfs-common<br clear="none">> ><br clear="none">> > Open Nautilus and click 'connect to server'. Shown in picture below on<br clear="none">> > bottom left. Not sure How to open this.<br clear="none">> > A dialog box will show up that says 'connect to server' like in the<br clear="none">> > picture below:<br clear="none">> > Now type nfs://hostname or static ip Close TerminalSadly my knowledge of<br clear="none">> > the magic inner workings of computers is very limited, any advice would<br clear="none">> be<br clear="none">> > very welcome, in layman's terms of course. Or pop round and do it for<br clear="none">> me,<br clear="none">> > oatcakes and cheese with coffee for reward. 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