I was able to get the drive up and running through the WD website for use with my iOS apps. The 4TB drive shows up as a share on the drive, which is perfect. Unfortunately, my work network's proxy server doesn't recognize the WD website, so I had to go through our guest wireless to test out general access via PC from work. I was able to log into the WD website and select one of the shares to be opened in Windows Explorer, and it came right up. So that is an interesting way to interface to the drive from the outside. It appears that Western Digital did their homework.
The problem that I am currently facing is that the My Cloud drive is on my Pers vlan while the media components (that would make use of the video and audio file storage) are on the Media vlan. At the moment I am in the process of setting up an Ubuntu VM to be the router between the Pers and Media vlans. My constraints are as follows:
- Use Shorewall firewall on Ubuntu VM to do routing; propose using Media and Pers zones; connection is via the vlans that were created on the Thunderbolt interface. These show up as different ethX devices in the Ubuntu VM
- Using 1 to 1 NAT, present the Mac Mini and the My Cloud drive on the Media vlan with Media vlan IPs
- Setup firewall to allow connection to iTunes protocol, AFS protocol, SMB protocol, and http protocol on the My Cloud drive from Media vlan
- Setup firewall to allow connection to iTunes protocol, AFS protocol on the Mac Mini from Media vlan
