Setting up a new drive on my Network

[Phil Tomlinson]

I recently got rid of my old WD "MyBook" drive and have now attached a WD "My Cloud Home" drive. I can access this new drive on my iMac, iPad and iPhone but not on my Sony Bravia TV. I used to be able to play video files from the old drive on this TV. 

Attached is a screen shot of my Finder showing the situation - the old and now missing drive still shows up as "My Cloud-1RRF6A". The new drive shows as "Philip's M..ud Home".

I have tried dragging the new drive into the Network file but am asked to click "Authenticate". Where is the "authenticate" tick box? I can't see it anywhere. Finally, would trying to move the new drive into this Network file be a good idea or would it mess everythng up?

Has anyone got the time to advise me? I'm obviously ignorant of this type of file handling!

Good wishes,

Phil T

[Jason Davies]

I suspect it's formatted for use with Macs (eg AFTP) but not a Windows compatible (eg FAT).

Select it in the Finder and see what it says by Format (under Modified) and let us know. If it's not that, we can take it from there.

This is a drive that connects directly via wifi, correct? or is it attached to another mac?

cheers,
J

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Cheers,

Jason

[Sam - MacAmbulance]

Have you enabled DLNA on the new MyCloud drive? That’s usually how TVs automatically detect media files on a network drive.

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On 30 Oct 2021, at 12:16, 'Phil Tomlinson' via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I recently got rid of my old WD "MyBook" drive and have now attached a WD "My Cloud Home" drive. I can access this new drive on my iMac, iPad and iPhone but not on my Sony Bravia TV. I used to be able to play video files from the old drive on this TV. 

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[Sam - MacAmbulance]

Also, how is the drive connected to your Mac? USB or Ethernet/WiFi?

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On 30 Oct 2021, at 12:16, 'Phil Tomlinson' via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I recently got rid of my old WD "MyBook" drive and have now attached a WD "My Cloud Home" drive. I can access this new drive on my iMac, iPad and iPhone but not on my Sony Bravia TV. I used to be able to play video files from the old drive on this TV. 

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[Philip Tomlinson]

Sam and Jason

Hi

The format of the My Cloud Home is macFUSE.

In the Help files I have found this advice:- 

How to stream media content to your Smart TV or media player?

To stream media content to your Smart TV or media player, you can choose to use the Plex Media Server or the Twonky DLNA Server to serve your media library.
To use Plex:

1. Go to Plex.tv and sign-up for a free trial account
2. Access your My Cloud device’s web configuration dashboard
   1. Windows: Open a web browser and type in http://devicename (e.g http://mycloudex2ultra) or the My Cloud device’s IP address to the web address bar
   2. Mac OSX: Open a web browser and type in http://devicename (e.g http://mycloudex2ultra.local) or the My Cloud device’s IP address to the web address bar
3. Click on the Apps tab from the top navigation menu
4. Select and install the Plex media server app
5. Follow the app’s on-screen instruction to setup your media library
6. From your Plex compatible Smart TV or media player, install the Plex media player app to start streaming

To use Twonky DLNA Server:

1. Access your My Cloud device’s web configuration dashboard
   1. Windows: Open a web browser and type in http://devicename (e.g http://mycloudex2ultra) or the My Cloud device’s IP address to the web address bar
   2. Mac OSX: Open a web browser and type in http://devicename (e.g http://mycloudex2ultra.local) or the My Cloud device’s IP address to the web address bar
2. Click on the Apps tab from the top navigation menu
3. Select and install the Twonky Server app
4. Follow the app’s on-screen instruction to setup your media library
5. From your DLNA compatible Smart TV or media player, install the Plex media player app to start streaming

Some of this stuff sounds distantly familiar to me but I’m always cagey about signing up for accounts. Do you have opinions about this?

Phil

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[Philip Tomlinson]

Thanks Sam and Jason

Re. Jason’s question it says "Format: Generic File System (macFuse)”

It’s connected to the rest of my home network not by wi-fi but by ethernet cable to the Router (actually I’m not completely sure - I have so many things connected! It might be connected to the router via a “TP Link box” that I bought because the BT router didn’t have enough ethernet sockets)

Phil

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[Sam - MacAmbulance]

Sounds like the WD Discovery software is creating a virtual representation of the NAS drive and showing it as a locally connected drive, mimicking an external USB drive. That’s not particularly helpful when you’re trying to view it over the network but WD probably think it’s easier.

Is there a web config page you can go to to make changes to the NAS drive?

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