How to set WD 4 TB MyCloud as a network drive

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 10:21:00PM -0500, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> Good Evening,
> 
> 
> I lost my trusty MyBook drive after 20+years.
> 
> I have added a My Cloud 4TB device. It does appear to be on my network with
> it's own name and IP address. Now I need to know how do I use this new
> device as a mountable file system under NFS ala MyBook for backup purposes.
> 
> the MyBook was identified as:
> 
> koala:/nfs/cdjsys /big_archive nfs
> 
> Ideally if I could change the MyCloud host name and IP address to be the
> same one as the MyBook used and identify it a a NFS drive that would be all
> I really want.
> 
> The device was named koala and acted like another host with an IP of
> 192.168.1.20.
> 
> How to I configure the MyCloud to act the same?
> 
I'm not sure *exactly* how the My Cloud drive works but if it's
anything like the WD NAS that I had then it has web configuration.

Go to the My Cloud's web configuration (just put its IP address into
the address bar of your browser and you should see it) and there you
can change its name to what you want and (but see below) change its IP
address to 192.168.1.20.  You will probably need to enable NFS which
may not be enabled by default. Remember that when you change its IP
address you will lose your connection to it and you will have to enter
the new address in the browser to re-connect.

A 'better' way to fix the IP address would be to do it in the router
which assigns addresses for your LAN.

-- 
Chris Green