The Ultimate Guide to Tailscale on Unraid

[@clipper99]

This was a masterclass! This vid should be pinned in every Unraid forum. You've answered so many questions I didn't know I needed to ask, and then some. Thank you!

[@uncastshow]

Thank you! Wow, great comment :-)

[@NickJones-u4w]

Can't find the blocklists you said you'd put in the show notes, can they be added please? Thanks for the video, so helpful!

[@beautravis8875]

This video is ridiculously good. You are a legend.

[@beautravis8875]

But seriously, I currently use Tailscale and Unraid v6 and am excited about the integrated Tailscale on v7. You've given me even more reason to be excited AND greatly improved how I can use my existing Tailscale even better.

[@Psoewish]

I'm only halfway through the video but I'm already blown away by how much incredible information is here. Great stuff!

[@uncastshow]

Awesome, thank you!

[@Kman3107]

First I watched the two SpaceInvader1 Tailscale videos, then I watched this. Definitely worth it to get a better sense of Tailscale and it's abilities. Then again, I'm a slow learner :P

[@JamieStuff]

Thanks for the video, Ed. It was worth the hour and a half. I have the Tailscale plugin on my server, but I'm going to wait for the official 7.0 release before doing all the fun bits.

[@drmetroyt]

Whenever i see ed with his unraid videos i feel excited like a 2 year old toddler 😂

[@s0ul599]

Nice!! Tried adding tailschale in my docker containers for months, getting unstaple results... and now it is a feature. Made my whole week.

[@mousbleu]

I have two of those bad babies and they perform AWESOMELY GREAT as WiFi router, glad to see them even more useful than they are.

[@metalor696]

It's you! I recognised your voice straight away. Thanks for all your videos mate, you're a legend 💪

[@ituserro]

can you paste the pihole adblock list in the description? thanks

[@Hefe-oj4ec]

where can we get an unraid hat!

[@uncastshow]

Right here! www.zazzle.com/embroidered_hat-256548782410882989

[@BartTech]

This video is a gem, thank you!

[@jfoxwoosh]

Cannot wait for that steam-headless video.

[@garygriffiths2487]

Everything you need to know. 10/10 Ed..

[@Xettabytes]

@uncastshow You mentioned (31:32) you would talk about not secure https later but I never heard about it. I am not finding a good guide on making it secure for unraid. Would you mind explaining it?

[@MICMON]

Second this. The step is kind of important and skipped over completely as at the part of the video showing how it was done for the docker container we can see it was already done with the andromeda server, but not explained.

[@Xettabytes]

Since posting this I believe i figured it out. I simply opened the terminal window in unraid and typed tailscale cert. This seemed to work but since posting I discovered I don't really care about https on tailscale, and ultimately feel using https with tailscale makes it less secure as it is in a public ledger. The only reason I would use https is if I was exposing the website to internet which it is not or the website required https which most don't. Tailscale is end to end encrypted so no one can snoop your data.

[@edmarfilho2000]

This Changes everything.... tks a lot...

[@carlosjackson3201]

Fantastic!! Thanks so much for this video!!

[@DcKayb]

Note to Alex: We need a prioritylist for global nameservers. Maybe with a time-control for how much time we should allow pi-hole to answer, before going on to the next dns server. 😀

[@Ciccoco]

Just awesome !

[@tooslownotfast]

What a great show

[@winglam841]

Thanks for the video! it works great; however, the tailscale plugin affects the network setting and the network adapter is no longer recognize on any VM after enabling tailscale. I have to disable tailscale plugin in order to use the passthroughed 10gbe adapter on vm.

Thanks for the vieo! Sounds great, just a bummer that every remote device needs the tailscale app for it to work. (or a supported router)

[@samubolvivat9504]

Another awesome video. Could to make a video for Tailscale with Vaultwarden and Nextcloud AIO? I cannot get Tailscale (Serve) to integrate with existing docker apps HTTPS

[@ulfthomasjohansen5000]

Thank you for this (and yet another) excellent video on Unraid and now Tailscale. Love'em both. You mention a docker search engine container named 'forget' - but I am unable to find it. Care to provide more info? :)

[@pierre-alexandrefillaudeau6224]

Hi it's 4get

[@ulfthomasjohansen5000]

@@pierre-alexandrefillaudeau6224 :D Of course it is... Thanks.

[@Michaelg1108]

So much help, thanks!

[@39zack]

good to know that you can use the integration with docker without need for the TS-SSL. While I dont mind the records being public, I mind that you cant remove/revoke them. If something need an SSL, I just put it behind swag on custom domain, but with this integration I can now use any proxy I want, not just swag :) (yes, I know I can do that today too with docker compose, but the way unraid handles/manages containers is just cleaner and more easy)

[@BobRobertson-j4y]

New to all this, just wondering... What's the difference between using a local VPN vs. an exit node for re-routing traffic? Is there a use case the exit node would be more useful?

[@Rottendog-n2q]

not sure if this helps anyone or maybe its already mentioned but for my Unraid to be an Exit Node i had to go into the command line on Unraid and run the following command "tailscale up --advertise-exit-node" to not advertise "tailscale set --advertise-exit-node=false" the plugin is not working at all like the video is here so something is off with my install or something but it appears this he is running the beta versions of Unraid so maybe thats it.

[@randylust7566]

Well done!

[@dasx86]

Great video! Question on the travel router part of the video: it seems to me that after configuring the travel router, you've gotten to the exact same functionality that you already had just using Tailscale natively on your Macbook itself. Though, I suppose using Tailscale on the router would enable devices that do not natively support Tailscale to make use of the tailnet. Is there some other use case that I'm not seeing?

[@Markyboy767]

I see the benefit of having everything behind a travel router. Your devices are on your network instead of some other network. Plus the travel router bypasses the need to pay for multiple devices if you have to pay for wifi by the device.

[@thenebu]

@34:44 it is another language. but its not finnish (FI), it is german :) Great video. Can't wait to set it up !

[@kipoyedcl]

OH NOOOO!!!! @41:14 @uncastshow you managed to hide the IP address in the column but forgot to hide the IP address in the Ping Response area just above your cam view!

[@luckytiger4633]

Hey there, great video! I run into one problem at the moment: when I open Jellyfin via Tailscale WebUI it cant find the server: No servers have been found using the automatic server discovery. I guess its some obvious setting im missing. Help from anyone appreciated.

[@fredamn76]

I cannot use default pihole in bridge mode because port 53 is used already. I tried to use br0 for network - however tailscale fails.

[@captainmcadams]

This tripped me up also, not figured it out either.. I've tried before last year sometime and think I had a similar issue. Googling says possibly something to do with libvirt and virtualisation. Running the command 'netstat -tuln | grep LISTEN' in the terminal shows port 53 in use and my google foo hasn't been good enough to figure out what to do with this information. Op didn't appear to have any issues installing the container though, so could be us!

[@501Hasie]

Hi Ed, where is the extra lists, I don't see any show notes for these.

[@defyiant]

I don't have a gpu in my server but is there a way to use headless steam utilizing my gaming pc to steam games away from my network?

[@DoctorAtomTNT]

I want to know this as well

[@jonathanfranklin2239]

Any ideas why after installing Tailscale none of my docker containers have the "use Tailscale" toggle please ?

[@ich777]

You need to make sure that you are on Unraid 7.0.0-rc1 since this feature was introduced there and enable the integration in the Docker container template, BTW you actually don't need the Tailscale plugin if you only want to add Docker containers to your Tailnet since the integration for Docker is independent of the plugin.

[@jonathanfranklin2239]

@ Was on the Beta before and after going to RC it worked , whether that was because needed a restart or to go to RC not sure as looked like the Video showed that was on Beta

[@ich777]

@@jonathanfranklin2239 this feature was introduced to the public in Unraid 7.0.0-rc.1 if you where on any beta before that version the Tailscale integration was simply not there.

[@kristof9497]

Thank you.

[@sigel69]

When i click on login so i can make it an exit node it just gives a blank screen and eventually says "hmmmm... can't reach this page. ***.***.***.*** took too long to respond... any idea?

[@peterr.4768]

Could this be used as kind of a VPN as well with Exit Node on a VPS? Im located in China and constantly searching for a stable and fast way around the GFW. Tried before but speed is not really helpful

[@Millilitree]

Any one experiencing DERP relay server connection when using Docker with Tailscale enabled? i cant seem to have a direct connection compared to tailscale plugin

[@alicecantsleeep]

I don't get a sign in option when I click the view button. This is got me stuck at setup as I can't add routes or do much of anything else. I linked it to my tailnet, but can't get it to let me add routes. I tried removing the plugin, nothing. Tried removing and readding the server from my tailnet. still nothing. And the TS IP trick refuses to connect to my server. How do I get TS to let me manage routes on my server? Update: After 4 hours in the unraid discord, none of us have any clue why this doesn't work for me at all. IPs won't connect, I can't manage routes without terminal. I've gone as far as blowing away the full plugin ensuring no lingering files in my flash/config/plugins, reboot, reregister, checked SSL, IP, DNS, verified tailscale settings, reset and rebuilt tailscale countless times. It just won't work for some reason.

[@NickJones-u4w]

Also, I think you forgot to mention that you changed your Pi-Hole ports in the video. 1 minute they're the default and then I spotted a minute or two later they were changed.

[@jmitchell3]

Able to access webui on docker instances but the ui themselves dont load properly when the docker level tailscale feature is enabled….any ideas?

[@dant1677]

Ugh. Is there a non painful way to switch my subnet?

[@CJ-vg4tg]

How do you add proxmox containers to this? in 10 seconds you can add each lxc to twingate. Don't understand this tbh. seems overcomplicated

[@tjb_altf4]

You'd need a Proxmox Tailscale connector if you want to use Proxmox.

[@CJ-vg4tg]

@tjb_altf4 running as an lxc container on each node or actually running in every container and vm? Thanks

[@HubertusGamingHub]

Ed

[@MICMON]

How to set unraid to use SSL? It’s explained for the docker container by changing it to serve, but you seem to skip the step for unraid and it is shown as secured on your andromeda server .. quite frustrating to try find this. Excellent video otherwise!

[@michaelosmolski]

great video, but fellow brits dont say rowter, they say rooter tut, tut.

[@powerup350]

is it safe to move from 6.12.14 over to 7.0.0-rc1 for the most part?

[@ich777]

I would say yes. :)

[@powerup350]

@@ich777 did the update to 7.0.0-rc1 had some issues with both of my cache drives having to add them again then had to move all my appdata back over to the cache drive. finally got that all fixed, but when I go to use jellyfin with tailscale the logs show errors and I do not get the link that allows me to authenticate with my tailscale account, ideas why that might happen?

[@ich777]

@ what exact errors? It would be probably best to continue this on the forums

[@powerup350]

@@ich777 I will move over to the forums. Thanks again.

[@Bruno-yb6sr]

[@fuchuenchow6522]

If it can register via a wildcard not the exact name it would be great! I’ll give it a pass for the moment

[@shootinputin6332]

r-out-er sounds good to me as an Australian. If you start saying r-oo-ter, I'll think you're discussing something more adult related.

[@vvorldnewsmedia]

this does not work whatsoever my ip didn't change whatsoever is tails not like a vpn? why does my ip not change