Help needed: Assign shares by LAN interface?

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Help needed: Assign shares by LAN interface?

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Is it possible to "divide" a Qnap NAS running QTS 4.4 between two different physical LANs for added security? I thought this used to be an option but I don't see any way to accomplish it in 4.4? Accomplishing the same thing with VLANs might also be an option but I don't see how to do that either? Basically I want a single NAS to live on both a "public" and a "private" network where the public LAN users can't even see the shares on the private network. Is there some way to accomplish this I'm missing? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!
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Re: Help needed: Assign shares by LAN interface?

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never put the NAS on a public network..certainly not WAN

the question was asked and answered in the past

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@dolbyman that's not at all what I was asking... I meant more like a guest WiFi network within a LAN not exposing the NAS to the WAN. The question still stands? Is there a way to divide access across the multiple LAN interfaces in a Qnap NAS?
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Did you read the link ?

(Spoiler: not possible as there is only one SMB deamon,not sure if the IP ranges can still have restrictions setup..as also mentioned in this thread)
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At the end of the day, you could run a VM with separate SMB deamons in your NAS (if x86).. but that might be overkill
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@dolbyman thanks for the reply. I'm sad the dual LAN interfaces on Qnap NAS units seems to only be useful for aggregation.
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Multiple LAN interfaces can also be used for Virtual Machines/Containers (physical NIC instead of bridging/NAT) or hanging the NAS into different subnets at the same time (just not splitting up certain shares)
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