Step-by-Step Guide: How To Setup Tailscale on TrueNAS SCALE

[@pcfreakx]

Just built my first TrueNAS Scale box and your videos have been absolutely fantastic for Tailscale and all the other setup tasks. You're amazing Tom!

[@moa4950]

Literally been putting off trying to install tailscale in case you did a video on it. Such a relief 🤩

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@DragonReborn100]

Just finished setting this up, got access to my whole home network through my mobile now. Glad i got unlimited data! Not much need for guacamole. I can close that port down now. Thanks Tom!

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Very nice!

[@ExploitedShells]

Love your videos, Tom. A week ago I downloaded your whole pfSense playlist for emergency offline use and some other videos, thank you for the great guides. Appreciate you!

[@realcameron]

spent several hours a week ago trying to make this work and then gave up, just for this to show up in my feed! Thank you much

[@elreydetoda]

Awesome video! Also, I don't know if someone else has posted this (and its a hack, so know what you're doing when you do it) but if you need to access the TrueNAS dashboard via tailscale (instead of using it as a subnet router) then you can just check the "Host Network" box under the Network Configuration section. tl;dr: the container has access to the same networking your TrueNAS has. Be very careful with this though, and understand what this will do before you do it in production 😅. This effectively gives the tailscale container the same networking capabilities as your TrueNAS host.

[@rhb.digital]

must admit... I just love Tailscale... crazy its free too with 100 devices

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Yeah, they are generous with their free service

[@retezankarol6722]

Auth Keys 6 USD per user/month. Is another way to implement in TrueNas scale ?

[@ragtop63]

I love how the caveat for replication was at the end of the video. I installed Tailscale for that exact purpose lol. Good news is, your instructions were easy to follow.

[@Jaredy89]

You can uncheck userspace while setting up tailscale and this will open tailscale to truenas environment, showing up in networks so you can do replications.

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

I thought that is what that did and I tested it but it still did not allow TrueNAS Scale talk to another TrueNAS scale for things like replication.

[@Jaredy89]

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS In my setup, I also have "bind to host network" at the bottom. Not sure if that makes a difference but I know I tried several different set ups until I made mine work.

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

It's both, uncheck user space and check host network.

[@Jaredy89]

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS I thought that was the case. Thanks for verifying and for all the truenas videos.

[@adrianmarianpopoviciu215]

Did you manage to get Tailnet MagicDNS DNS working from Truescale by any chance?

[@rebelangel66]

Where was this video yesterday when I was setting up tailscale on my parents truenas scale server to connect it to my pfsense box 😅. Thanks Tom very informative video gonna have to change a few things now when I next go to my parents.

[@joshua23928]

Thank you for this video, just built my first home server and was quite lost!

[@ilmisumitro1259]

Hello, I followed your steps, but my TrueNAS isn't showing on Tailscale devices..

[@dozerd42]

This was still really useful, but can you provide an updated video for True-NAS Electric Eel? The interface and deployment has changed considerable on the TrueNAS Scale side of things...

[@nicolofragile9241]

Hi, I followed the procedure, the app remains in deploying mode, maybe I need to open some ports on my router?

[@jamescollier2049]

I have the same problem, were you able to fix this?

[@ericalves8388]

I have the same problem too. How i can fix?

[@supremeleader1043]

same issue. i tried restarting the system. or just deleting and redownloading it and it worked

[@j03y__]

Mine was doing this and I forgot to KISS....I needed to click approve on the console

[@MrFonz22]

@@j03y__ Would be great if you could give more details = which console exactly?

[@trippvanmunch]

I have followed this guide and got everything set up, but how do I actually use it? How can I access anything remotely?

[@Thewickedjon]

ty for such a clearly explained video. This is grat stuff for noobs like me lolol now my truenas is on tailscale :D ty sir!!

[@glennharrold2392]

Followed your video and got tailscale connected to my server. Tried the Iphone app and for the life of me cant work out why the server is not available. Tailscale and Immich are both running and ready for connections according to the logs in Truenas Scale. obviously its Immich not talking to Tailscale. Ill keep on investigating. Love the simplicity of your videos Tom.

[@SeanHenryLuvsDaDub]

Thanks Awesoeme. Another great video!!

[@TonyBoston]

I might have overlooked or misunderstood that part but is "--accept-routes" not an option? I'd like to get to another subnet from the truenas system.

[@PavelElzateev]

thx guy, was very useful 4 me

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Glad you found it helpful!

[@LoganStewart-rk4ok]

thank you for this video...lifesaver to me , being a noob

[@gareth6628]

Hi im using Truenas Scale, with jellyfin and Immich for at home media back up etc, ive installed tailscale and set up so i can in theory access media or upload media while traveling, but Tailscale is saying my exit node is incorrectly set and has no ports open,, i honestly dont know how to remedy this or am i just not clicking the right thing?

[@STONJAUS_FILMS]

been pulling my hair with other vpns for my truenas and cant believe this actually worked by just installing it ... wait WHAT

[@daabest1]

Bless you for this Tom

[@Billyfelicianojp]

Thank you for the video, but now the only thing we need to know is how to access apps that have ports in truenas with tailscale.. Do you happen to have a video that talks about how to access your truenas apps with tailscale that have ports?

[@jaylord55]

your are awsome sir i was trying for days to figure out this on my nas so i could allow my grandma to watch vids from jellyfin from her house while the server is at mine keep getting errors and here it was from me not setting it up correctly.

[@gravelfreeman]

The tailscale0 network interface isn't created when checking Host Networking. How did you manage to make it work?

[@devonology]

Did you figure this out? I'm having the same issue now

[@parenall]

I have done all the steps you say and when I finish installing the program, it remains in deploying stucked. The version of TrueNas Scale is Dragonfish-24.04.0. If you could help me I would be grateful

[@namanjoshi2528]

Hey, Is there to a way to access the Plex from TNS via TailScale ? as. TNS is now access remotely but I'm unable to access the Plex, any idea, how to do it ?

[@kevinghadyani263]

I mean, if you make TrueNAS use the Host Networking adapter, then it will make the host accessible.

[@IamDoQtorNo]

Howdy. Great couple of videos that address using tailscale. I am looking to setup my homelab. It's comprised of (3) metal box sql servers (development, test and production) running ontop of unbuntu only, nothing else loaded at present time. Same configuration on all 3 boxes. I am planning on setting up a production server for a client on their work site. I am looking to setting up a backup server to serve as sql backup for their data . Backup server will be located with the other 3 boxes. What's teh best way forward for this use case (Lawrence or anyone can provide insight , i will take advise)

[@victorruiz8048]

I have installed everything but my truenas machine does not shows on tailscale MACHINES

[@mitchellan-ebbott7408]

What's the reason behind using an app instead of installing it directly like you would on any other Linux OS?

[@zyghom]

I just came back to this video as I set up 2 networks (far from each other, kind of few thousands of km) and I have them all in the same headscale network. So I wanted to have a replications between 2 TrueNAS scale servers. But i was looking for tailscale client on TrueNAS - not in the container. Unfortunately you confirmed: not working...

[@filds1]

Can you make a detailed guide for jellyfin. Im trying to host my media at sisters house. I been trying to setup on my phone first. But it just doesnt work

[@LA-MJ]

And that pretty much sums up the issue with TrueNAS and it's k3s Frankenstein's monster

[@Jniklas2]

What issue do you mean?

[@SmokinMoaksBBQ]

I still cant access my SMB shares on truenas though. How do i do that?

[@UtubeFan316]

same here, did you figure out anything?

[@daillengineer]

shouldn't be an issue. I can access my truenas SMB shares via Tailscale subnet from my Mac while im at my office. tailscale is installed on my Synology for subnet routing. I didn't use it on truenas like in this video.

[@ericalves8388]

Every time I install the application and add the route, it stays in "developing", but as soon as I remove the route, it works normally, but I can't access it remotely. Can anyone help me?

[@Nels_Underscore]

In Truenas Scale 24.04 it no longer seems to bind tailscale as a network interface. Does anyone know how I could do this manually?

[@JordanStambaugh1]

With the recent update I can't get Tailscale to install (stuck in deploying...) unless I void TrueNas support and disable "hostpath security checks"...which I did, and I still can't finish installing tailscale. Pulling my hair out over this - it is not as simple as it's shown in this video anymore.

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

When it breaks just delete the instance, create a new key, and start over.

[@JordanStambaugh1]

@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS I’ve done that probably about 6 times now. Same result every time.

[@daillengineer]

@@JordanStambaugh1 have any other device on the network you can use for the tails cake install instead? I use my synology. I believe you can even use raspberry pie.

[@JordanStambaugh1]

Sure. How would I route traffic from Jellyfin on my TrueNas through the other device?@@daillengineer

[@JordanStambaugh1]

"it only routes traffic between devices running Tailscale, but doesn't touch your public internet traffic" so I don't think this would work. I'm just trying to allow remote access to my Jellyfin server but it sounds like Tailscale would need to be installed on all devices to be used as an exit node. @@daillengineer

[@qem888]

I followed this to a t. I have a running green tailscale on TNS and a green connect on tailscale but I get timed out when I try to access via the given ip address on tailscale. Am I missing something?

[@raulalvarez21]

same here. did you find a solution? thanks

[@halftome]

Is there an easy way to setup certificates using tailscale for secure https access to the TrueNAS webUI?

[@Demish8]

I can't find the tailscale app in the available apps section

[@akanar_1924]

I set mine up this way but TailScale keeps using the relay instead of a direct connection which is super slow.

[@victorliwong1500]

when I add the IP address to tailscale it flips from deploying and stopped. Can someone help

[@NishanSinghMann]

Thank you for posting this. However I'm unable to ping my other machines from within the tailscale container but other machines can ping the tailscale container just fine. Also I'm unable to access other resources within my home network even though exit code and advertise routes is setup as specified in this guide.

[@Zandohaha]

Same. Can't get Nextcloud to find the server when using the Tailscale ip I just set up.

[@m.2383]

For some reason mine is just stuck on 'deploying'. Fresh install from literally 10 minutes ago.

[@m.2383]

Okay, so for anyone else who finds this: simply redo everything from scratch. Delete the app, then set it up again. TrueNAS scale seems to be quite unstable & gives me alpha software vibes. Core was a lot more reliable I feel.

[@wpoole10]

Tom or ANYONE, How can I setup a permissions in a dataset to where I (dad builtin_admin) has full control and want my other users (wife and kid builtin_users) to be able to read and write files if they want, but not be able to delete anyone's files ONLY the ones they created/own? I am able to have each user write files to the dataset but the user that creates the file cannot delete their own file. If I give them modify permissions they can delete anything in the dataset. How do I fix this???

[@WilliamLevasseur]

I've had situations where, if you Edit the app, Tailscale will brick itself and not be able to reDeploy anymore. If that happens, I found that deleting the app and starting over solves the issue. More tech savy people than me may have a better fix...

[@gravelfreeman]

How to access Kubernetes applications using Tailscale?

[@AlwaysBolttheBird]

Unfortunately nothing works for me. All i get is connection refused. I installed it on my phone and ran a simple webserver on my phone and was able to connect to that but cannot connect to anything on my free nas box.

[@alanedelstein_JS]

Same. Let me know if you figure out what the issue is. I have a feeling it has to do with how the network section of my Truenas Scale is set up?

[@AlwaysBolttheBird]

@@alanedelstein_JS I honestly have up. I'm not saying it can't be done it's just above my head. Hopefully will figure something out

[@choochoochar]

Try downloading from truenas repository and not truecharts

[@urzu181]

A cool solution but its obviously much better to have Tailscale running on the firewall.

[@dohyea6093]

I wondered about this, but what if the use case is simply remote users accessing files?

[@DangoNetwork]

so TrueTail Scale²?

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Or would it be TrueTail? 🤔

[@NicolaiWeitkemper]

Did anyone manage to access other Apps via Tailscale?

[@BradleySmith1985]

vs synology?

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Yes kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqCZiXiEjbd_laM

[@emntbj]

Anybody knows how to access truenas apps using tailscale? Like nextcloud

[@dand337]

I have the same problem, unless you bind to host you can't acess it. Have you solved this?

[@emntbj]

Nothing so far, I had to put nextcloud on a different hardware as a standalone installation

[@s.z.6118]

What is it?

[@MegaMijit]

damn, wish he included instructions for truenas core

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Not an option for using this on core

[@APT4308]

🎉

[@StewartWright]

500

[@rexnihilo5583]

Not nearly enough info to be useful.

[@theaquaking4020]

3:45 From where would i get the subnet route adress that you enetred here?

[@LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

Put your local subnet there