On 21/12/2020 12:53, Dale wrote:
Somewhat related. I googled and it appears I can hook a NAS to my
router and share it there. The router is 1GB, it has yellow ports. Is
it true that I can hook a NAS to the router?
I think my router has 4 yellow and 1 red port. The yellow ports are, i
guess, just ordinary switch/hub ports. The red port, I know, is the wan
port so I guess it's firewalled and all that stuff. I know I'm not
supposed to connect a yellow port to the internet wall-box, and I guess
doing so might well not even work ...
Maybe they meant that the router itself has NAS features. This is common for
not-too-simple models. You can hook up an external drive and the router has
the ability to share it in the network via samba or ftp or some such.
That's what it looked like in the picture. It said to plug the NAS into
a ethernet port and it would be shared. It makes sense but I didn't
know that until I read it. I guess it is like my printer. Whether
hooked up wireless or with a ethernet port, it is shared with anything
hooked to the router. If all that works like I think, yeppie!
You're confusing an external drive, and a NAS. Two completely different
things. My router has a USB port, to which I can connect an external
drive. That *should* then appear on my network as a NAS drive. In other
words, all the NAS smarts are in the router.
You're talking about plugging a NAS into an ethernet port, where all the
NAS smarts are in the NAS, and that should work with ANY hub/switch/router.
Cheers,
Wol
