I work for a research group at the university. As we need some additional storage we're setting up a QNAP NAS locally for our research group.
The IT department controls the Windows domain (and user management) centrally for the entire university and I'm just an employee with a regular domain user login.
Provided I have administrative access to a Windows PC on the domain (for several PCs I have this for maintenance), I can configure access control to that machine finding AD users/groups on the domain and specifying access (login, folders etc.).
I'm trying to determine if I can do something similar with a QNAP, meaning:
- Joining the QNAP NAS to the domain
- Not as a domain controller, but as a 'domain client'
- So without domain administrative rights
- To use existing domain users and groups for access right management on the NAS
- For convenience, so we don't need to create local NAS login for all the employees that need access to the NAS file shares
My understanding of AD/LDAP/Windows domains is very limited, so I any feedback that could shed some light on the matter would be very welcome.
Thank you