Man I am so sorry! We had company all weekend as soon as I got home from school and then I completely spaced about this. That’s why its taken me so long to even attempt it. I don’t think about it till I’m about to leave LOL. I should be around all day/evening. Tomorrow we have a memorial service for my Mom but tomorrow evening ill be around and should hopefully be all day Sunday. You just let me know what works good for you lol.
Or anyone just post up suggestions and Ill sure give it a shot as I can and post all the screen shots and what not.
Sorry to hear about your mom. Wishing you and your flock all the best!
Interesting take on these questions. I really really enjoy the simplicity and options Tailscale deliver, but somehow it feel like it’s to good to be true! Even though all the communication goes encrypted directly from peer to peer, there’s this firm that knows the layout of eeeverryybodys local networks.
I guess the “right” way would be to set up wireguard yourself… what you gain in privacy and owning your data/channels you pay with having to know and figure out stuff…
I tried to get this going last night but a storm took out the internet. I looked at it a little once it came back but couldn’t find the exact spots I need to make those changes. I need to take some time and read the link you posted and see what it might help with.
I do know that tailscale was active and running when I tried it. But I am not sure if I have truenas configured correctly. Or that I have it configured correctly to allow me to access other things on the network as well, such as Rpi’s for printers and such. Going to do some digging on truenas and see what I can figure out
Sounds good. So i found out that tailscale runs as a docker. You can, and may want to, only give your nas i.p. ok to traverse tunnel. So just ip would be notated as 192.xxx.xxx.xxx/32
If you want entire network, most likely your network is 192.xxx.xxx.0/24 or 255.255.255.0
We can probably find a way to remote and i can assist if you like. Just let me know.
That would be SUPER helpful. This stuff is all way over my head. I like to think I know a good bit, then I come on here and find out just how much I really don’t know LOL
I have been mucking around with homelab stuff. It started when my nas had a bad drive, so I added some new drives. Then I wanted more docker, so I bought an ho elite desk mini on ebay (didn’t Turninbjorn have some extra of these? They are awesome and it was $60). I have been messing around with Next Cloud, Jellyfin, and Navidrome. But I want secure access to everything remotely.
Tailscale is still working. But it occasionally doesn’t. When I turn it off, my network behaves again. It is probably a sign that either I have something wrong, or something is leaking my data.
I saw this and thought it looks pretty cool. I will probably skip the login step and try to just use the mTLS WAF part:
It seems like I could even make this work on my wife’s phone without her having to do anything complicated and I might even be able to get my https warnings to go away.
I have one of these I run home assistant on. Started out on a pi4 but always seemed like it was hanging up. Now it’s been on the elite desk for over a year running on proxmox and I have no issues at all. Was definitely worth it. I tried to get another one to run my NAS from and was just going to 3D print an external drive bay but ended up with the larger elite desk and have them inside. It burns more power than the small one but is working well. If I could get my hands on another mini I would swap it out for sure lol. Just need to make sure it has enough sata ports for the drives
I bought this one. It has one SATA port and one nvme drive spot. It has a M.2 slot too. I am planning on trying frigate with coral there. I’m very impressed with it so far. I tried a couple of OSs, but I am most familiar with Ubuntu, so it is running 22.04 and I pretty much immediately installed docker and portainer and have been managing it through portainer. One of the front USBs is definitely broken, but otherwise, it’s working great.
My HA is running on a HA blue. This HP could easily run it instead. I have considered moving it, but the blue ain’t broke, and I bought the HP hoping I could be a little risky with it and not worry about complaints from the family if I broke it for a few days.
They seem to have come down in price some. I believe mine is a G1 and I paid more than that without a power supply lol.
My trunas computer has 2 4tb sata drives in it now with plans to upgrade to more in the future so not sure how I could run that with just a single sata port. Might be better off sticking with the larger form factor for that computer lol. I do want to move both of them into my “electronics” closet soon, but havent gotten there yet lol
I have a 4 bay QNAP NAS too. I have thought about just using the NAS as a NAS and mounting that drive over the network on the hp. Then I could run services on the hp that can utilize the storage on the NAS.
But the trick there is that most network mounts I’ve done are a bit finicky. And services don’t act well when the storage is yanked out from under them. I can easily imagine a bunch of problems with that.
I have portainer running on the NAS too and it isn’t too bad. I bought the HP mostly so I could install random docker apps without risking my NAS going down while I played around with it. Next cloud is impressive though. If I could find a way that my wife’s phone would work with it, without her having to worry about the VPN, then I could see us using it a lot for photos, and replacing slack with Talk.
This is what I tried first to get remote access to my NAS from outside the home network and got absolutely no where with it lol. But thankfully tailscale seems to be getting me what I need for now. I do wish there was a way to set up iphone photo back ups to the home nas instead of paying for extra icloud storage each month. But its just all so far above my knowledge base that I don’t even know where to begin with it lol. It was impressive for me just to get the nas up and running and useable. Still I know some things aren’t quite right, or at least not how I wish they were. But I have found work arounds that have got us what we need at the house. Its mainly only 3 computers that use it. But being able to access any of the stuff from any of the 3 is a huge time saver.
How are you running tailscale? Is it a docker? Did you turn off exit nodes? If you only have it for access, exit node is not necessary. Other than exit node i cannot think of anything that would mess with home networking.
