I have a QNAP 251-B with both drive bays full. Out of interest for more storage, I attached a External USB to the front USB port. I'd like to be able to access that drive as a network drive in my Windows 10 computer. Basically use it as a dumping spot for stuff I don't really want on the NAS.
I can see the drive and it's files through the File Station, so I know the NAS can interact with the drive.
But how do I make it accessible to the computer that connect to the NAS?
Network Access to External USB Drive
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Re: Network Access to External USB Drive
you can add user rights to external drive shares (afaik), by default only admin has rights
after that just mount the share that the nas creates for the external drive (also by default)
sidenote..make sure you have external backups of your nas data..a raid is NOT a backup
after that just mount the share that the nas creates for the external drive (also by default)
sidenote..make sure you have external backups of your nas data..a raid is NOT a backup
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Re: Network Access to External USB Drive
Thank you....it wasn't obvious to me that it was already setup. But your info helped!