Can I access the files on iSCSI LUN over SMB or other network file sharing protocols?

Last modified date: 2022-06-24

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All NAS series

No, iSCSI LUN is block-level base storage, you can think of iSCSI LUN as a remote hard drive connecting to your computer over network by iSCSI protocol (SCSI protocol over IP network). You can't access the data on a SATA hard drive connecting to a PC without SATA connectors. It's the same thing that accessing the files on the iSCSI LUN requires an iSCSI initiator running on the iSCSI client (Windows/macOS).

However, Windows/macOS can serve as an SMB server, you could configure the iSCSI LUN disk as the network share then share the resource to the other SMB clients.

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