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[@GeekendZone]

I appreciate your great content.

[@Jims-Garage]

@@GeekendZone thanks 👍

[@lukasyelle4708]

your videos are incredible, thank you for so much great inspiration for my homelab. Your way of explaining things is so clear and concise. Looking forward to part 2!

[@Jims-Garage]

@@lukasyelle4708 thanks, I appreciate the feedback! I'm personally looking forward to the 2nd vid as well, been meaning to set this up for ages!

[@chrisumali9841]

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

[@Jims-Garage]

Thanks, you too!

[@und3rpr]

This channel is amazing. Got your arr-stack working and it is perfect.

[@Jims-Garage]

@@und3rpr that's great, I appreciate the feedback

[@leonkernan]

This is pretty much how i've run my home network for the last 12 to 18 months. My car even plays music off my NAS via the phone.

[@Jims-Garage]

That's awesome! Android auto with VPN?

[@leonkernan]

@@Jims-Garage Carplay with the Amperfy app playing off a Navidrome server.

[@Vaillant44]

As always awesome content James

[@Jims-Garage]

@@Vaillant44 thanks 👍

[@italopenaforte]

as always an awesome content

[@Jims-Garage]

@@italopenaforte thanks, I'll be looking to expand it in the future

[@goodcitizen4587]

This is a great idea. Thanks!

[@Jims-Garage]

Glad it was helpful!

[@demanuDJ]

Great content James but its pretty overkill for using VM to just run netbird. Why you didn't use container?

[@Jims-Garage]

@@demanuDJ somewhat agree, but wanted to keep it simple for folks and fully isolate from the host. I have covered LXC, docker netbird etc before so as stated there are lots of ways to implement this process. In future I'm likely to replicate this setup using Proxmox, and run the netbird client in a docker VM as a container (or LXC).

[@rajilsaraswat9763]

Why not simply use incus aka lxd to setup container?

[@Jims-Garage]

@@rajilsaraswat9763 I haven't covered lxd yet and wanted to keep it simple and easily portable. You can also install netbird on TrueNAS itself. I aim to revisit with a Proxmox host version as that's likely another use case people will want.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Could you use the small form factor PC then use a DAS just plugged into the USB 3 port in the small PC?

[@Jims-Garage]

@@TheStevenWhiting yes, it's basically a remote homelab. If you can do it at home you can do it remotely.

[@yourpcmd]

Here's a problem I've been trying to fix. My wife and I work on the road a lot and need to backup &/or access files on our home server (TrueNAS Scale) while on the road. We're currently using FileZilla and FTP for each of our accounts to move files back and forth. Is there a way to use TrueNAS Scale on a box and mount the storage drive as a mapped drive on our laptops? I have Cloudflare Tunnels so we can just use a FQDN instead of an IP address. Have you done a video on this or if possible, could you do one? Thanks for the content.

[@Jims-Garage]

@@yourpcmd that's basically what I'm doing here using an SMB share (windows share). This will show up on your laptops like a C: drive and you can access it like any other drive. You likely need to create the SMB share and point it to your existing dataset (in the video).

[@johnrushford3803]

I have the same situation as you. Both my wife and I use our TrueNAS scale share while on our home network and while on the road. We are both macOS and IOS users and I'm using WebDAV to make the share available to our iPhones and macOS laptops where we can mount the share on our laptops and use a WebDAV IOS app on our phones to retrieve and update files. I chose to use WebDAV because it outperforms SMB by quite a lot as I notice file updates and downloads are very fast compared to SMB. TrueNAS scale has a WebDAV app available but, I do not like how it's configured, its missing configuration elements for https-access logging so, I rolled my own apache24 WebDAV server on a VM configured for the logging I like, SSL access only and using a long character password. I currently have port forwarding access to the WebDAV server but am considering locking it down and using only VPN access after watching Jim's great video here.

[@anthonyojo6312]

What the difference between this , VPN, vs, Traefik/NGNX, and cloud-flare tunnels. Or are these all the same thing just different? Which is the most secure or made to be the most secure?

[@Jims-Garage]

This mesh VPN is private, and much more flexible as you can even route traffic over it as an exit node. A wireguard connection (or other VPN - e.g., OpenVPN) would be second best. I don't like Tunnels as Cloudflare can read all of your data.

[@bradley1125]

Can I just confirm. Is the port forwarding required just for the netbird server, or the client? I was under impression you didn’t need to port forward for mesh VPN’s. But maybe I’m getting confused? 🤔 When I followed your first Tailscale/Headscale video built through a proxmox cloud init vm, I haven’t had to port forward for this? Kind regards for any info

[@Jims-Garage]

@@bradley1125 it's for the server, you are correct that the client doesn't require it. You could put the server in the cloud if you cannot port forward locally.

[@bradley1125]

@@Jims-Garage Ahh Silly me…. Yes you’re right.. I completely forgot that with that tutorial you setup a remote server in a free tier oracle host if I remember correctly. Might have been something else. That makes sense…. I should therefore be able to setup the netbird server similarly. No longer got the static IP addresses locally 😭😭