Tailscale Function Question (mander.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by retrieval4558@mander.xyz to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've recently installed tailscale as a plugin on my Unraid NAS with the *arr suite and random other things on it.

I was under the impression that once I had everything set up, I would be able to access my LAN services the exact same way remotely as if I was at home connected to WiFi, specifically with their local 192.168.1.x:xxxx addresses.

What I've found is that I can't do that with the local addresses, but tailscale provides me with a separate external address that I can use with the proper port numbers for the Unraid containers, which I've added via the subnet router function, although I don't totally understand how that works tbh.

Beyond that, I have a raspberry pi that runs home assistant, and I expected to be able to access that as well, but haven't been able to figure that out. Must I install tailscale on that device as well? I thought that by using my NAS as an exit node, I'd be able to get to it.

Pardon my ignorance and thank you for your help.

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[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Wouldn’t it be better to just set up your own VPN tunnel to be independent? I mean, you have a Pi running.. Use dynDNS if your puplic address is not static. Of course, you need a domain for that, but if you don’t need a fancy name, they are pretty cheap. Or is there another reason why you have chosen tailscale?