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On the NAS, I created a space for a volume, mounted it via iSCSI Initiator and then formatted the space via Disk Management on the Windows Workstation. Windows sees this as a Local, Simple Basic Disk formatted as NTFS. I then mount this "virtual disk" via the one workstation. Thus, Windows has access to any of its standard capabilities (e.g., indexing, filelocking etc.). I haven't suffered any loss in the many years using this configuration. I do, however, mirror the RAID 5 NAS that contains the virtual disk to an identical off-site RAID 5 NAS on a weekly basis.
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