How to connect Synology NAS directly to a PC

How to connect Synology NAS directly to a PC

1.While still connected to your existing network, log into your Synology DSM
2. Set a manual IP for your Synology LAN card
3. Enable SMB/AFS
4. Set a manual IP on a PC
5. Connect your Synology to your PC/MAC directly with a LAN cable
6. Map a network drive on your computer for easier access

[robertwilson]

Finally, someone that showed me correctly, thanks mate, transferring at over 100 Mbps now

[CINEMATIK]

Great Tutorial. Iam the First person who liked the video. However, I have a question for you, Can you help me? Please if you can. How to Set Up Synology in the way i want. For instance; My model 1621s+
I want to connect an Ethernet cable from my router to my Synology, and then I would like to take another Ethernet cable and connect it to my PC from that Synology NAS to continue sharing the internet. In simple words: Home Router -> Synology NAS-> to PC in order to have both internet and direct connection between my PC and NAS.
How to use NAS to get the Internet to my PC with using an additional switch?

Thanks.

[CytotoxicTCell]

Would a QSFP+ dual port 40Gbps nic on my PC and nas work with link aggregation?

[snens]

Hey, great Video! but i do have a question.
What if i only have one LAN port on my PC can i just use a LAN to USB Adapter?
So using an USB port of my PC connected to the LAN port of the NAS.

[kateydrummer]

I have mapped the drive, the letter was taken from the system so it looks like it was created but it does not show in 'This PC' folder. When I type IP number it takes me to that folder. What has happened?

[icydge]

Hi! i just bought a Synology DS923+, i loaded my old NAS hardisk in, was thinking of connecting it directly to the pc to view what i previously stored on the hardisk to tidy it up before connecting it to the router. do you know what are the steps i should follow to do so ?

[PhotoFeelSaikat]

OMG!!! This is so helpful!! Thank you so much for sharing this tutorial.

[doctorale]

Dzięki bardzo, wreszcie mogłem połączyć się bezpośrednio z nasem i mieć pełną prędkość transferu.

[leotheangrylion]

Just came across your video but how can I do this when I only have a single Ethernet port on my DS214Play? Right now, my NAS is connected to my wifi router via the Ethernet so it's not possible to configure for direct connection to my laptop. Any ideas how I could do this on my DS214Play?

[guzmansrandomreview]

I did the same thing with my PC and I get capped transfer speeds at 40MB. What am I doing wrong?

[dvr]

Best wud be 10gbit lan on a nas since many premium Mainboards got it aswell

[planete.d]

Looks like part of what I need, thanks for the tips. I have connected my NAS directly to my Mac Pro with the LAN cable ; for some reason, I can't log into my DSM, the Synology assistant doesn't find the NAS at all nor does the web search. The Finder does find the NAS but every file transfer I try stops after a few minutes and the connection gets lost. I have written numerous customer service tickets to Synology which are all blissfuly ignored. I am at a loss to proprely connect Mac Pro and NAS and resume backing up my files... Don't know quite where to start. DSM414J and Mac Pro won't communicate more than a few minutes and then it's over.

[BlackRain_]

Great video. I am interested in purchasing a Synology NAS for local purposes (storage/mirroring only, no internet connection). Is it considered good practice to shut down the NAS along with the PC at the end of every evening, or is best practice to leave it on and running?

[GlennUpgraded]

I have a Mac Mini M1 arriving, I would like to know how can I directly access files from a Synology to Mac Mini M1 without the need of internet or something, is it possible to just plug a USB3.0 cable directly from Synology DS920+ to USB 3.0 of the Mac Mini?

[Norain]

hey there,
Will I get faster transferring speed connecting directly to my computer?
Right now I am transferring files with 50-60 Mbps...

[Heinz_Einz]

Thanks for the good explanation. But one question remains: does this work with all Synology DS NAS?

[garfieldRYL]

Sorry if my english is bad, just trying to understand this better. Once we config the NAS and connected to the PC, can we unplug the cable that connects to the Internet? Leaving it like a plug and play or 'external hdd' that is connected to the PC for daily use? Hope someone can help me with this.

[TheOriginalFSword]

Very informative video! Just one question: when you set the static IP of the NAS (through the PC obviously) it means the PC is connected to the internet. Following you perform the PC static IP configuration and then you connect the LAN cable of the PC to the NAS. Does this mean that internet connectivity is lost from the PC? Which I don't mind, as long as it can still access the NAS through the ethernet cable. On the other hand, if the PC is connected to the internet via WiFi and you connect the NAS directly with the LAN cable I assume we retain both the internet and (direct) NAS connectivity, right? The question is, is it mandatory to have internet connectivity all the way (I mean even when we directly connect the PC to the NAS via the ethernet cable) so that this setup works?

Thank you in advance!

[kunqiye]

thanks! I was trying to connect my shield tv pro to my nas but this method doesn't seem to work. Do you know how to directly connect an android tv to a nas?

[wahyeebeh]

Hi, do we need to use cross cable for this setup? I have a Synology DS210j.