Connecting 3 computers directly

[apinrise]

Hey folks,

I did a search for this but couldn't find anything helpful. Some other topics came close, but seemed to be for other models and I couldn't follow instructions.

What I'm trying to do seems simple enough...I have three computers that I'm connecting to my QNAP TS-653A set to RAID 5. The computer plugged into Port 1 can access the Web Browser, and can connect via finder to the file folders that I hope to share amongst the local network. The other computers, connected to the other two ports can see the NAS device in Shared devices in finder, and show in the QNAP Qfinder, but cannot connect to the Web Browser either.

I'd like all of these devices to read and write to the Home holder on the QNAP. There's no internet access here other than a free wifi connection, so I don't want to connect the NAS to that. I just want three computers to read/write to the drive through the ethernet cables that connect them.

Is there some sort of setting or configuration option that I'm missing?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Ryan

[OneCD]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

Each of the Ethernet ports on the NAS is assigned a different network ID and it's not really the right way to do what you want.

So, please connect your 3 computers to an Ethernet switch, and then run a single cable from the switch to your NAS.

[apinrise]

Thanks for the welcome! So i have to buy a router in order to use the device? What's the point of it having 4 ethernet ports then?

[OneCD]

The 4 Ethernet ports allow you to run 4 different LANs. They are not 1 port per device.

[OneCD]

Thanks for the welcome! So i have to buy a router in order to use the device?

No, you don't need a router. Only a Gigabit Ethernet switch.

[apinrise]

Okay. Thanks for clarifying!