Seeing someone’s else’s “personal iCloud”

[Daino92]

Hello all,

I hope this isn’t a total noob question. I am fairly new to Mac OS and I’m currently staying at my in-laws house for the holiday weekend. I connected to their WiFi and in finder I am seeing a “personal” iCloud come up next to other machines in the finder under network. I am not even sure what this is our why I have access to this. Could someone tell me what that is and why I have access to this?
Thanks!

 

[casperes1996]

Hello all,

I hope this isn’t a total noob question. I am fairly new to Mac OS and I’m currently staying at my in-laws house for the holiday weekend. I connected to their WiFi and in finder I am seeing a “personal” iCloud come up next to other machines in the finder under network. I am not even sure what this is our why I have access to this. Could someone tell me what that is and why I have access to this?
Thanks!

Are you sure that's an iCloud thing? Could you send a screenshot of what you're seeing in Finder? My guess would be it's a network attached storage on your in-laws' network (whether they're aware of it or not) that's open to anyone on their Wi-Fi

 

[Daino92]

Are you sure that's an iCloud thing? Could you send a screenshot of what you're seeing in Finder? My guess would be it's a network attached storage on your in-laws' network (whether they're aware of it or not) that's open to anyone on their Wi-Fi

Sure thing,

here you go. I appreciate it!

 

[RogerWilco6502]

That's the name of a computer on the network

 

[casperes1996]

Sure thing,

here you go. I appreciate it!

Yeah that's not iCloud. If you look again it just says "PersonalCloud"; No I.
If you Google it you'll find that that is indeed a Network Attached Storage system you can buy

 

[Daino92]

That's the name of a computer on the network

They have Windows Machines. So you're saying that it's one of their windows machines that has iCloud Drive installed on it? Why would I be able to see that?
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Yeah that's not iCloud. If you look again it just says "PersonalCloud"; No I.
If you Google it you'll find that that is indeed a Network Attached Storage system you can buy

Balls,

thanks for pointing that out and how I'm apparently losing my vision.

 

[RogerWilco6502]

They have Windows Machines. So you're saying that it's one of their windows machines that has iCloud Drive installed on it? Why would I be able to see that?

No, by "computer" I meant any sort of device capable of file sharing. What was stated is correct, it's likely a network attached storage device.

 

[Kaspin]

“PersonalCloud” is the default name Seagate uses for their 2-bay NAS cloud device. WD has a similar product named My Cloud.