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WinnerCircle
Dec 17, 2016Aspirant
Connecting NAS to Orbi Satellite
We use Mac and Windows computers in my home. I just bought Orbi Router and Satellite and want to know how to mount a QNAP NAS via Orbi Satellite. Prior to using Orbi, I was using Apple Extreme a...
WinnerCircle
Dec 17, 2016Aspirant
Yeah, I tried, it still wont connect. I see my NAS in the connected devices list in the Orbi utility but it will not mount as a result of which I cannot access any of the files in the NAS.
peteytesting
Dec 18, 2016Hero
WinnerCircle wrote:Yeah, I tried, it still wont connect. I see my NAS in the connected devices list in the Orbi utility but it will not mount as a result of which I cannot access any of the files in the NAS.
real NAS units connected via ethernet dont need to mount as the hdd is mounted by the NAS unit
- WinnerCircleDec 18, 2016Aspirant
In Mac NAS is seen as a server that we connect to using the process shared earlier. As I said it works seamlessly with my Airport Extreme but not so with Orbi and I am not sure why. I have opened a case with Netgear and they have escalated it to Level 2 technician.
- peteytestingDec 18, 2016Hero
ok then you are using the wrong terminology as mounting a hdd is defined as a usb thing
- WinnerCircleDec 18, 2016Aspirant
Sorry, not an expert in network terminology. Thanks for educating me :-)