Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

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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