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Cannot detect WD cloud home device
I have Orbi RBR350 Mesh Router. I also have a WD home cloud personal storage, and I can access it from the internet or my cellular using Android APP any time I want, but for some strange reason, t...
Hard to imagine it does not have an IP address - considering it's able to reach the WD Cloud Home through your network.
The WD "design" (almost non-existing, no utilities for discovery, no common ) to figure out the LAN IP appears to be issuing an arp -a from the command line, and then locate the IP address based on the MAC address printed on the device label.
Have already enabled the Windows feature to enable the SMB 1.0/CIFS Client and SMB 1.0/CIFS Server (the automatic removal is not required - certain risk that if not making use of SMB 1.0/CIFS for a certain time it does disappear magically), and rebooted the system?
Once done so, I would expect the WD Cloud Home system to become visible. Some WD resources state only SMB2 and SMB3 is enabled by default. From what I understand, the current WD OS5 should be smb2 and smb3 only. But no idea on how these devices should appear on the average user desktop usually.
Start with the "discovery" using arp -a. Do a ping to the subnet, like 192.168.1.255 for example before.
schumaku wrote:
Hard to imagine it does not have an IP address - considering it's able to reach the WD Cloud Home through your network.
This is indeed the problem. Neither the OP nor I can imagine how a device can be connected to the Orbi with Ethernet, the Orbi Attached Devices does not report it, yet it can communicate with the WD cloud.
It has to have opened a connection through the Orbi to the WD cloud, which implies that it must have a unique IP address on the LAN subnet. (Otherwise, packets from the cloud could not pass through the Orbi and be delivered to the device.) Attached Devices cannot function simply because an Ethernet adapter is connected. It shouldn't require the device to use DHCP. My guess is that Orbi monitors ARP packets to collect information about what is on the LAN. (It can report the same MAC address having more than one IP. It may even report more than one MAC address having the same IP.) But, not report that a device is on the network?????
It's simply beyond reason.