Best way to remotely access TrueNAS/Nextcloud remotely?
Best way to remotely access TrueNAS/Nextcloud remotely?
Total noob, but I set up TrueNAS/Nextcloud on an old laptop and it's working great locally.
What would be the easiest secure way to access my files remotely from my phone and/or laptop?
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Tailscale. Download it and you'll be up and running in 5 minutes. Don't use cloudflare tunnels unless you plan on opening it up to the public. Then you can go that route.
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Hey, I'm testing it and I have it installed on my phone/PC/TrueNAS but having trouble getting access remotely (testing on data).
I think I have the part "Advertise Routes" wrong, how to I know what IP to put in exactly
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You put the ip address that tailscale gives you along with the port number of your NextCloud instance.
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Is the port number the 4 numbers after the : which I use as a url to access Nextclouds web gui?
Also that means I should be adding two routes?
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Yes the port number is the last 4 digits after the :.
Tailscaleip:nextcloudport
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Sorry for the questions, how do I know which Tailnet IP to use? Each device seems to get a different address and a I tested a couple and neither worked
A tutorial I watched used 192.168.3.0/24. I tested this and it didn't give me any errors and it connected to tailscale, but I couldn't actually access things remotely
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You use the tailscale ip address of whatever device your hosting NextCloud from
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Second on that. The whole "it just works" slogan was frustrating when it didn't work at first, but once it finally for running it was great
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What exact route did u advertise? I'm having trouble getting it working
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Trust me, you don't want to get instructions from me. Just look at my post/comment history haha everything I touch breaks in ways that are hard to diagnose. I had to reach out to tech support, they got back to me in <12hrs
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Haha okay fair enough np
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For restricted access, I add a Cloudflare Application in front of the Tunnel to provide authentication. Work's like a charm, and the user never hits my services unless they successfully authenticate.
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Yes I do that too with email authentication. But if he is using a personal server with no users then there is no need for that.
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True, but then Tailscale needs to be installed on the remote device to connect. A Cloudflare Tunnel and Application can be accessed by pretty much any device. This was more appropriate for my use case. YMMV, of course.
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For me it's all about use case.
I use cloudflare tunnels for programs exposed to the open web (Nextcloud, Radicale, etc).
But I use tailscale for anything not, then I use tailscale (RD client, KDE Connect, Sonarr, etc) because it's way too simple.
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