On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 11:58 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I just want to get the filed off this thing and will consider it an > error in my judgement. I bought an overpriced 4TB hard drive that I > will use elsewhere and happily toss the WD My Cloud housing in the > trash. The idea of a small network storage device sounds good to a lot of people, myself included. But you soon find these things are annoying to use in various ways. If you have a full computer running 24/7 as a server, you're better off to add a big data-only drive to it, and use it. At least you can make an ordinary Linux install do what you want it to. I don't know why they call these little boxes cloud servers. You can't run software on them, they're just storage. Well, you can hack them. But the idea of cloud computing was that you could start running something on one cloud device, then float it over to another device on demand. These things can't do that. > The Apple iPhone does not keep the original file in memory long > enough to extract it to the Mycloud. I assume that is done to save > memory in the mobile device, it sends the original image to their > iCloud server and leaves smaller thumbnails in memory. That's probably configurable, or ought to be. It should be possible to configure the cloud device into a reasonable configuration (so long as they haven't taken away features, which is why some people don't let them auto-update their firmware). Once you know the IP for the device, you can simply open that address in your webbrowser and use the device's in-built webserver to change the settings. If you wade around, you'll find NFS, SSH, FTP, and other options you can switch on. I turned off lots of useless things, to me, like itunes, media servers, etc., to stop it wasting time indexing the drive. They tend to stick everything in a Public folder where everyone can read and write to. If you set up individual users, you can have personal storage spaces in their own names. However, you often find they still have read/write permissions for everyone. They rely on intermediate serving software to apply access restrictions in the middle. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 25 17:23:54 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
