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ACCESSING YOUR CLOUD REMOTELY 84 Accessing Your Cloud Remotely Enabling Cloud Access for the My Cloud EX2 Ultra Device Configuring Cloud Access for a User Mobilizing Your Files with iOS and Android Mobile Apps A private cloud is your content, at home, secure and under your control. Unlike public clouds, a private cloud allows you to keep all of your content in one safe place on your home network. Share files, stream media, and access your content anywhere, from your PC or Mac computer and from mobile devices. No monthly fees. No mysterious location for your data. Keep your videos, music, photos, and files safe at home and always with you. This chapter explains how to set up the My Cloud EX2 Ultra device for remote access and describes some of the ways you can take advantage of its many capabilities. Enabling Cloud Access for the My Cloud EX2 Ultra Device Before you can use your My Cloud EX2 Ultra device remotely, you have to enable it for cloud access. To enable the My Cloud device for remote access and to check the status of its remote connection(s), see "Cloud Access" on page 81. Configuring Cloud Access for a User Once you've enabled cloud access on the My Cloud EX2 Ultra device, use the following steps to give remote access capability to your device users. 1. On the navigation bar, click the Cloud Access icon . 2. In the left pane, select the user you'd like to configure for cloud access. 3. In the MyCloud.com Login for area, click the Add/ Change Email Address icon .Click this icon if you have not previously added an email address to the user account or if you need to update/change the user's email address. 4. Enter the user's email address. This email address is used to send the user confirmation information and instructions on setting up and activating a password for cloud access. 5. Click Save. MY CLOUD EX2 ULTRA PRIVATE CLOUD STORAGE 17 USER MANUAL

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ACCESSING YOUR CLOUD REMOTELY
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MY CLOUD EX2 ULTRA PRIVATE CLOUD STORAGE
USER MANUAL
Accessing Your Cloud Remotely
Enabling Cloud Access for the My Cloud EX2 Ultra Device
Configuring Cloud Access for a User
Mobilizing Your Files with iOS and Android Mobile Apps
A private cloud is your content, at home, secure and under your control. Unlike public
clouds, a private cloud allows you to keep all of your content in one safe place on your
home network. Share files, stream media, and access your content anywhere, from your
PC or Mac computer and from mobile devices. No monthly fees. No mysterious location
for your data. Keep your videos, music, photos, and files safe at home and always with
you.
This chapter explains how to set up the My Cloud EX2 Ultra device for remote access and
describes some of the ways you can take advantage of its many capabilities.
Enabling Cloud Access for the My Cloud EX2 Ultra
Device
Before you can use your My Cloud EX2 Ultra device remotely, you have to enable it for
cloud access. To enable the My Cloud device for remote access and to check the status
of its remote connection(s), see “Cloud Access” on page
81.
Configuring Cloud Access for a User
Once you’ve enabled cloud access on the My Cloud EX2 Ultra device, use the following
steps to give remote access capability to your device users.
1.
On the navigation bar, click the
Cloud Access
icon
.
2.
In the left pane, select the user you’d like to configure for cloud access.
3.
In the MyCloud.com Login for <user name> area, click the
Add/ Change Email
Address
icon
.Click this icon if you have not previously added an email address
to the user account or if you need to update/change the user’s email address.
4.
Enter the user’s email address. This email address is used to send the user
confirmation information and instructions on setting up and activating a password for
cloud access.
5.
Click
Save
.