Recently during a residence move, we dropped my trusted old fashioned dependable Raspberry Pi – hard disk Network Attached Storage device. Essentially we connected my outside hard disk drive to a Raspberry Pi and had a Network Attached space drive which permitted us to get into my media from any unit on my house community.
When I realised it had been time for you to buy a passionate NAS.
I shelled down for the WE the Cloud 4 TB host, which by all reports is really a great little bit of gear – nonetheless i desired one thing a lot more than a standalone NAS and I also desired to manage to access the WD the Cloud from my Pi.
Here’s just exactly how I connected my Pi into the our Cloud! The guide below should work with any NAS – not only the WD our Cloud.
Get the internet protocol address of one’s NAS:
In the event that you don’t understand the internet protocol address of the NAS, you can easily perform an “arp-scan” 
from your Raspberry Pi discover it, right here’s the way I found mine:
In the event that you nevertheless can’t discover the IP address, for the WD the Cloud there is the internet protocol address in your settings, according to the directions right here.
During my instance my NAS internet protocol address had been: 192.168.192.62
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