Is there any way to encrypt an entire NAS volume or at least a specific
share on a NAS? Even if I map a share to a drive in Windows, I can't get
the volume to show up when using the "Select Device..." button. A
workaround is to create a container on the NAS, but that makes it difficult
to encrypt existing data given that our NAS already has 12TB of used space
out of 24TB. Any ideas?
A network share (like a NAS) is not a device even if it is mapped to a drive letter. A device is a hardware connected to your machine (ide, sata, USB..).
Since you already have data, one solution is case 1 described on the link above: basically you encrypt your drive in-place, mount it on a server and share the mounted volume. If your NAS is not in this case, I'm afraid there is no solution.
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Is there any way to encrypt an entire NAS volume or at least a specific
share on a NAS? Even if I map a share to a drive in Windows, I can't get
the volume to show up when using the "Select Device..." button. A
workaround is to create a container on the NAS, but that makes it difficult
to encrypt existing data given that our NAS already has 12TB of used space
out of 24TB. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Brandon Wall
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Fax: (918) 473-8100
Hi Brandon,
A network share (like a NAS) is not a device even if it is mapped to a drive letter. A device is a hardware connected to your machine (ide, sata, USB..).
You can only use file containers on network shares but it has many issues. Please read the documentation section that talks about this: https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Sharing%20over%20Network
Since you already have data, one solution is case 1 described on the link above: basically you encrypt your drive in-place, mount it on a server and share the mounted volume. If your NAS is not in this case, I'm afraid there is no solution.