On 1/16/2021 10:10 AM, Paul wrote:
Bob F wrote:
On 12/21/2020 4:56 PM, Bob F wrote:
I use my 4TB older WDMyCloud drive as network storage. It works great
on my Win 7, XP, Vista PC's, but I cannot get it to work reliably on
the 2 8.1 PC's I have here.

It shows up as a "Storage" device when Windows File Explorer is
brought up and "Network" clicked, and accesses the WDMyCloud's web
settings page if storage is double clicked, but does not show up as a
network drive accessible for data storage. I see all the PC's there,
but not the WDMyCloud. If I enter the WDMyCloud's IP address,
192.168.1.3, into my browser, it easily opens the web access to the
WDMyCloud's settings page.

I managed to create a shortcut on the desktop with the target
\\192.168.1.3 which does open it in the Network area as
"192.168.1.3", which does let me access the directories in it. But, I
really want it to show up when I open the file explorer. If I open
another file explorer window after using the shortcut, it still does
not show.

This could relate to my adding a "Homepage" in originally trying to
get the 8.1 PC onto the network. I have since then turned that
setting off on that PC, and gone back to the previous "Workgroup"
settings.

Can anyone offer any suggestions for how to get this working right?
The few references I've found online to this problem have not offered
anything that helped.


The problem on 1 of the Win 8.1 PC's spontaneously re-occurs. It was
gone the last couple of days, and is back today. What the heck?

Related to a recent Windows Update ?

Â*Â* Paul

No recent updates have been installed.