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Can I use Bitlocker on a NAS drive?
iamcornholio
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I have a Buffalo Linkstation (a single NAS drive), and I want to connect an external drive to this - which I can do via USB.
If I encryted the exteranl drive with Bitlocker, would it be accessable via the network?
If I encryted the exteranl drive with Bitlocker, would it be accessable via the network?
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Thanks, but it seems that the external drive needs to be formatted by the NAS into some obscure file system, so Bitlocker wont work on this drive in any case0
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Since the NAS runs Linux (probably) it will format its disks with one of Linux's file systems. But a program called Samba presents the disk as NTFS (a fairly good emulation) to Windows. But one of the things Samba doesn't do is handle some of the more obscure file attributes, and it may be that BitLocker requires these. No doubt Googling on some of the above would provide further information.iamcornholio wrote: »Thanks, but it seems that the external drive needs to be formatted by the NAS into some obscure file system, so Bitlocker wont work on this drive in any case0
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