Restore Time Machine from WD My Cloud

Good morning.  I recently had my hard drive replaced on my iMac.  I had been using My Cloud as the repository for my Time Machine backups.  When I started my iMac when I got it home, it is not recognizing where the Time Machine backups are and it does not allow me to navigate to a location to find it.  It seems as if the utility is looking for the backups to be directly connected to the machine and not over my network.
Has any encountered this same issue and successfully resolved it?  If so, how?
I was on Mountain Lion and now I am on Yosemite.
Thank you,
Jay

Hello, try connecting an ethernet cable directly from your WD to your Mac. Can you find the back-ups now?

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