From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E1D271382C5 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:12:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CA56E0BA1; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BB242E0B9B for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:12:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-149-69-253.range86-149.btcentralplus.com ([86.149.69.253] helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1krVHn-0004yN-7K for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:12:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <8074cb40-2345-4a25-0e17-8034c0159c5c@gmail.com> <2d2e199e-c286-ca4f-6542-d33647b1bc3d@gmail.com> From: antlists Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:12:19 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2d2e199e-c286-ca4f-6542-d33647b1bc3d@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 1388b4d6-8888-4ff9-8e41-9f3842f15788 X-Archives-Hash: d18799cd89cccee0a868c81e7c4d74e1 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