r/Tailscale

Hello everyone,

I’m using Tailscale (latest version available on the store) to access my homelab from my Iphone 13 (latest IOS version). I very often have issues connecting to my services, to the point that my homelab becomes unusable. I don’t have this issue from my Mac (which I also use from outside).

The only « solution » that SOMETIMES works is to completely disable my VPN from the Iphone settings and then manually relaunch Tailscale.

Thanks in advance for your advice from those who experience the same issue!

Major tech companies (Apple, Meta, etc), VPN providers (Nord, Windscribe) and privacy advocates (Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law Michael Geist among others) came strongly against it.

I am wondering whether Tailscale has an official position, intends to take a stand / draw a line, or otherwise join the efforts to have this bill defeated.

I have ordered Starlink which I understand will put me behind CGNAT. I will bypass the Starlink router and use my own. But I have a security camera DVR which I will need to access remotely from my Android phone when I'm not there. I am trying to test out the Tailscale setup ahead of time so hopefully I won't have any down time when I get the Starlink installed.

I have a Windows Desktop at the house which I have set up with Tailscale. I enabled IP forwarding, advertised the subnet and "run unattended" command. In my Tailscale machine list I can see the subnet and have added myself to auto approver for the subnet. On my Android, I can ping the Desktop.

The router currently has ports forwarded for the DVR. The phone has an app to view the cameras remotely, but I am unable to see them when I have Tailscale running on the phone. I can ping the DVR IP directly from my phone but the camera viewing app connection fails to connect.

My thought was that I could disable the port forwarding to test whether I could access the cameras with Tailscale. But clearly I'm missing something here. No joy either with ports forwarded or not.

Can anyone point me in the right direction here?

Editing to add: I also have a no-ip dyn dns set up on the router and OpenVPN and an Updating client on the desktop keeping the current IP updated. Not sure if that could be conflicting things?

Hi all,

I've followed the installation guide to get Seafile to work on my home server. All works fine, and I created a Tailscale service linked to my_machine_ip:8085 (which is the port I mapped in my docker compose).

The only problem I'm having is getting Seadoc to work. If I create a Seadoc file, and then I open it, I get "Load doc content error". If I look at the console, I can see this response from Seadoc:

{"error_type":"content_load_invalid","error_msg":"Internal Server Error"}

Here are some of my configs:

seafile compose file

seadoc compose file

env file

I exposed my services to tailscale with this command ($svc contains the name of my seafile service):

tailscale serve --service="$svc" --https=443 --set-path=/ http://127.0.0.1:8085

tailscale serve --service="$svc" --https=443 --set-path=/sdoc-server http://127.0.0.1:8086

tailscale serve --service="$svc" --https=443 --set-path=/socket.io http://127.0.0.1:8086/socket.io

Is there a recommended procedure to get Seafile to work with Tailscale?

Thanks!

I got tailscale and Plex all setup, bought a new router just to to run tailscale at my remote location, everything was sweet... for a week... then it inexplicably stopped working. Everything seemed fine... the NAS was accessible remotely, I could ping it, access it's admin interface. I could even access Plex on my computer and play movies. But on my TV and phones, nope. It was like my NAS was completely invisible... even to Remote access viewing, let along "local" viewing. I was tearing my hair out, eventually by chance looked though my NAS settings and found Remote Access "On" with a 100.x ip address that looked like a tailscale range, but wasn't its correct tailscale IP. So apparently this is Terramaster's remote access solution, and it takes an IP address range that tailscale thinks it owns, and this can lead to inconsistent behavior. So I disabled that, you don't need it I guess if you are using Tailscale. And hallelujah, everything started working again. So I post this for others to find... if you're using tailscale on your Terramaster, turn off Remote Access.

WAN 1 = 1Gbps Fiber
Firewall 1 = UXG-PRO
PC 1 = Win11, i7-14700F CPU
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WAN 2 = 1Gbps Fiber
Firewall 2 = UDM (Dream Machine)
PC 2 = Win11, 5800X3D CPU

Running Tailscale Status or Ping shows the public IP and and a DIRECT connection established with less than 5ms of latency. No Relay servers.

When copying a file between computers or running iPerf3 I am getting limited to around 270Mbps.

Further troubleshooting steps I have taken:
- Ran iPerf3 on LAN devices in both networks to verify local NIC speeds - resulted in 950Mbps
- Turned off all IPS/IDS on Dream Machine to validate that it wasn't causing the issue. Disabling DPI, IPS/IDS resulted in the same iPerf3 speeds. (270Mbps)

Open to further ideas or suggestions - I know that I have had much higher speeds with the same network firewalls in the past. Hoping this is purely a software or configuration issue.
Thanks!

I'm using Jellyfin for my media and I'm able to connect it locally without Tailscale but I needed it in order to access my server outside of my Wifi, and it works but the connection is terrible. Most results lead back to having a relay connection but I'm not exactly sure how to check it because when I look it up the answers are assuming you already have some type of background info and you're using something called Docker? But I'm not using a NAS I'm using my PC (my CPU is a Ryzen 5 5500 and my GPU is a RTX 3060 Ti if that matters).

I'm not sure if the bad speeds are because my connection is POSSIBLY a relayed one and not a direct one but I'm just trying to verify that to see if that's the issue and if not, I can move on to the next step or solution or whatever.

Also I'm not able to change my router settings directly as it's my Mom's internet.

How do I install TailScale cli in docker? I have it connecting to my tailnet,
But when I try and enable ssh, I can’t because there’s no cli

I’m on a pi4 that it won’t download the TailScale cli normally, I run sudo apt update.:: but says it can’t find the package.
So, when I got it started with docker, it “works” but I want ssh enabled

So I set up a service for Kavita, and it worked wonderfully, now it has its own magicDNS, the browser is all happy about the certificate, and most importantly I got my Panels app to accept it as an OPDS server.

Then I replicated the process exactly for Audiobookshelf and Plex, and my browser just tells me those sites can't be reached. Nothing about the setup-process or anything on tailscale's side tells me anything is wrong, and I can still access them by going to "NAS-magicDNS:relevant-port".

How do I go about troubleshooting this?

i can ssh into the pc, I'm confused. if I'm connected then why isn't http working?

My tailscale stopped working and i found this on device manager.

Please help me.

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Hi

I see multiple people complaining about this but not any clear solution, tips, or pointers in a good direction or any tweaks. Can anyone help?

Synology DS425+ nas. When trying to play simple (even 2 minute) videos, it constantly buffers every few seconds.

I see multiple possible causes. NAS is connected via LAN. And the only devices on my Tail vpn next to the NAS are to 2 phones.

Pictures and folders loading goes fast. Except video, keeps buffering every few seconds.

Tried also via DS file app same issue.

What is the reason of this?

Is it wise to turn off transcoding?

Thank you for your help.

BLUF: why should I use Tailscale?

I hear about it all the time when discussing homelabs and servers and whatnot, but i'm unclear on use case I guess..

Is it something I should use? Why?

For reference, here is how i'm currently set up at home:

Windows 11 PC connected to internet via ProtonVPN. Does all my day to day stuff, and torrenting and whatnot.

QNAP NAS runs all my *arrs in portainer dockers and is used as storage for media and runs my plex server.

If i need to remote in, i use my phone and chrome remote desktop for full control of my windows box.

Everything is portforwarded through my router. So far, i've only ever had maybe 2 instances of "attacks" and they were blind brute force attempts that the router identified and put a stop to.

Is Tailscale something that would be useful for me or would it just become something else i have to worry about breaking when i push updates?

Thanks!

Everything with network is pretty daunting to me, so I need help to understand lol

I am thinking about setting up my Apple TV as an exit node to allow my mom's Apple TV to connect to it to see if it'll be suitable in bypassing the the password and other restrictions certain streaming services have these days. Who's done it and has it worked successfully for this idea or do the streaming services still detect it?

I have installed Tailscale on UGREEN NAS Linux (running Debian 12 flavor) and running inside a Docker container. I have also installed OpenSpeedTest on the same NAS and in Docker. While testing the speed on my LAN (configured and tested for 2.5 GbE), I am seeing that the upload speed is throttled to approx 10 Mbps. The down traffic seems reasonably throttled at 1000 Mbps, while the UP traffic is at approximately 10 Mbps. What is throttling the UP traffic, and how to fix this issue?

I am on AT&T Internet WAN on a fiber 1000 connection (tested for getting full bandwidth), and I am testing from an Apple Mac Mini4 client.

BTW, this setup used to work better when Tailscale was installed directly in Linux, but it was recommended to move it to Docker (cleaner).

Any/all help is appreciated.

This is speed test Apple Mac mini4 to NAS through LAN. I am connected via physical LAN Cat5e with J45 plugs capable of 2.5G. All is good. tested to 10GbE and it does work but I returned the 10G bridge (too expensive and emits too much heat).

Speed test for two identical machines but through the TS IP address. Down speed is still reasonable at ~900 Mbps. Up speed is throttled significantly.

Has anyone ever tried setting up Syncthing to use the Tailscale tunnel for file server data replication? If so can you please share your approach. Or other community tools that work best for file data replication.

The thing is, I am looking for a way for the main server to have a data replication to another office (one way connection) so the main server remains authoritative and the replication server just read only one way.