A Comprehensive Independent Guide for Home and Small Business Users
FOR QTS 5.2, UPDATED OCTOBER 2026.
'You need this book - the NAS is not supplied with an instruction manual.'
With superb functionality and ease of use through the acclaimed QTS operating system, QNAP is a popular choice when buying Network Attached Storage. Whether it is storing and sharing information, streaming photos, music and video to computers and smart devices, setting up a surveillance system, or the ability to have a private cloud that allows access to information from anywhere, a QNAP NAS can do it all. But this power and flexibility comes at a price and correctly setting up a QNAP NAS can seem a daunting prospect for someone who has not done so before. This guide, based around the latest version of QTS and including the multimedia, cloud, backup and many other features, covers using it with Windows PCs, Macs, Linux PCs and portable devices. It has easy-to-follow real world examples, with over 310 illustrations and screenshots, and will take you through it from start to finish and help ensure that your home or small business network is a success. It is written according to the Goldilocks Principle: not too little information, not too much information, but just the right amount.
Contents:
1 GETTING STARTED
2 INSTALLING QTS
3 SHARED FOLDERS
4 USERS
5 CONNECTING TO THE NAS
6 SECURITY, HOUSEKEEPING & MAINTENANCE
7 BACKUPS
8 MEDIA & STREAMING
9 MYQNAPCLOUD & REMOTE ACCESS
10 STORAGE
11 SURVEILLANCE
12 VIRTUALIZATION
13 MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS
