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Accessing Your Cloud Remotely
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Enabling Cloud Access for the WD My Cloud Device
Configuring Cloud Access for a User
Access Your Files with iOS and Android Mobile Apps
This chapter explains how to set up the WD My Cloud device for remote access and
describes some of the ways you can take advantage of its many capabilities.
Enabling Cloud Access for the WD My Cloud Device
Before you can use your WD My Cloud device remotely, the device must be enabled for
cloud access. To verify that your WD My Cloud device is enabled for remote access and to
check the status of its remote connection(s), see "Cloud Access" on page 77.
There are 3 ways to enable the cloud for your smart devices:
Discovery on your Local Area Network (LAN): If you are on your LAN, cloud access
software will automatically discover and list your device. Once discovered, you can
complete the steps necessary to connect to the cloud.
Email: If you include an email address when you add a new user to your
My Cloud device, the new user will receive an email with instructions on setting up
and activating a password for cloud access (see"WDMyCloud Access" on page 41).
Activation Code: If you or your users are not on your LAN, you can generate an
Activation Code to provide access to the cloud (see"Cloud Device Access" on page
42),
Configuring Cloud Access for a User
Once you've enabled cloud access on the WD My Cloud device, use the following steps to
give remote access capability to your device users.
WDMyCloud Access
Use the following steps to set-up access to WDMyCloud.
1.
On the Navigation bar, click the Cloud Access icon.
2.
In the left pane, select the user you'd like to configure for WDMyCloud access.
3.
In the WDMyCloud.com Login for <user name> area, click Sign Up.
WD MY CLOUD USER MANUAL
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