WD My Cloud Share Cannot Connect or Wrong Password Problems

Problems connecting to your WD My Cloud? Here are my observations.

WD My Cloud Share Cannot Connect

First thing I noticed that when adding new shares on the WD My Cloud, you must add the user permissions one by one. Otherwise it can result in the share not working, either giving an invalid password error on Windows, or just some kind of a connection error on Mac OS X (now macOS).

WD My Cloud Shares

I haven’t tried AFP, but this was my experience with connecting to the drive via SMB (Samba). Which btw. for me at least, seems to work better than AFP on my Macbook even though AFP is a Mac protocol. Go figure..!

Also Mac pulled out a software update which is suppose to improve SMB connections. So as a reminder, updating is usually a good idea.

Mac Connect SMB, AFP WD My Cloud

Point taken: sometimes a lot of patience is needed at the My Cloud dashboard.

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Thank you for reading!
Questions/Comments welcome. David.

 

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