Small business network setup help!

watsonb02

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May 13, 2016
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Hi,

I'm pretty novice at this level.

I've been asked to help consolidate an existing small business office.

A previous employee set up a network that is hard to navigate as when they left all the passwords were lost or files were encrypted.

We have two computers and a Black Armor NAS 220 storage device existing as the server. We need to add two further PC computers.

So the two computers can already access the NAS. I've been using WIFI because a wired connection is proving too difficult (I don't know the ins and outs and no one wants to buy more equipment) and it's a tiny office.

The other two PCs don't have WIFI capabilities, so I bought two dongles and figure I can just have the four computers connected to the same router.

In regards to the NAS, I can see the files but am unable to upload any more. But I can probably figure that out and get it connected to all of them.

Then how do I create security?

Is that as simple as that?

Excuse the ignorance, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm meant to be in accounts and admin.
 
Solution


The next dime you spend should be to hire a local consultant.
I understand the budget is tight, but if you do it, it will end up costing far more than if you hire an actual network person to do it.

USAFRet

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The next dime you spend should be to hire a local consultant.
I understand the budget is tight, but if you do it, it will end up costing far more than if you hire an actual network person to do it.
 
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What do you mean about creating security? Also without passwords and knowing what was encrypted and how it's impossible to do anything further.

You don't just say "how to create security", for what exactly? To restrict file access? If that, for who and what accounts? If it's for network, how exactly is it setup? Security is not something you just toss out there as done or not, need to know exactly what you are looking to do. For four computers you don't need to do much but you do need to know how file/folder rights were setup on the NAS, how it was backed up, who needs connections to what, how the network is setup, how it's protected from outside attacks.