connect NAS to PC as external drive?

[ThePiston]

Carbonite won't backup a NAS unless you pay for the expensive Small Business setup. However, it will backup an external drive. Is it possible to set up a NAS normally on your network, but connect to it via one computer via the USB port? (thus seeing it as external drive and not a mapped drive in that one computer)?

 

[fastman]

What your asking I don't think will work. How will the other computer(s) see this drive unless it is mapped?

 

[anikhtos]

Carbonite won't backup a NAS unless you pay for the expensive Small Business setup. However, it will backup an external drive. Is it possible to set up a NAS normally on your network, but connect to it via one computer via the USB port? (thus seeing it as external drive and not a mapped drive in that one computer)?

http://www.addonics.com/products/adu2n1g.php
it is not a record braker but nevertheless it will make a nas to look local usb

look also this

http://www.addonics.com/products/nas30u2.php

 

[ThePiston]

What your asking I don't think will work. How will the other computer(s) see this drive unless it is mapped?

to other computers it will be accessible as usual on the network - even to the computer in question. The difference is that the computer I want to use with Carbonite would be using the NAS as if it were a local USB drive.


anikhtos, those links are the same. That adapter seems like the opposite if what I need. It turns a USB drive into a NAS where I need a NAS to look like USB.

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

I think I remember there being a registry hack that would allow a network drive to appear as local when mounted. I'm just not sure what it is right now.

 

[anikhtos]

to other computers it will be accessible as usual on the network - even to the computer in question. The difference is that the computer I want to use with Carbonite would be using the NAS as if it were a local USB drive.


anikhtos, those links are the same. That adapter seems like the opposite if what I need. It turns a USB drive into a NAS where I need a NAS to look like USB.

they are not identicall
the first is liek this one
http://www.sharkoon.com/?q=en/node/1241
this one i have use it personaly
what it does
you put the usb device on this device
you install the software to your pc
you run the software to pc
and choose which device you want to connect
and what the software do
make think the computer that the device is conected to a local usb port

the only downside to this is that only one computer can mount the device
at a given time
but when moutned it is as a usb
there is the version with 4 usb ports
that i have used the one with the 4
and do what i tell you exacly
so it is something you want
conect something to net but seen local to the net right?

i think first product is the same as the sharkoon
the other is not the same