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.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Edit: I meant to reply to the other person saying you needed it on all clients.

      Yes, Subnet routing is what’s needed. It works fine.

  • mothar@lemmings.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    It can do exactly what you are asking for. Just search for subnetrouting in the tailscale documentation.

    Thats what im doing to access all of my different services ans devices remotly. Without installing it on every device.

    It is really easy to setup.

  • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    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?

    • retrieval4558@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Honestly the reason is I thought that it was an easy way to fit my use case- I just may have misunderstood what it was capable of.

      • xenspidey@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Your use case is similar to mine, tailscale works great. Used to have a dedicated VPN but chose tailscale over that.