gmhall

Thank you kizer. I honestly don't intend to troll or to cause grief to the Unraid community. I also don't wish to create a bells and whistles campaign defending Unraid. I've had some frustration with access from outside. Several suggest this to be "easy." Following several guides (appreciated) to the letter, it's not easy, at least I haven't had success. I accept that Unraid may not have been designed with my use case in mind. although I don't think my expectations are unreasonable. Cloudflare tunnels haven't worked for me as described. Wireguard kills my internet on outside Windows clients. My initial comments were only intended to suggest turco's experience may not be unique. I'll give Unraid some time and watch for solutions but I too long for the "set it and forget it" if I can reach the set it stage. 🙂 Thanks all.

I'll need to return to it after being on the Cloudflare tunnel / proxy manager merry-go-round for the last six days! My recollection is that while I could see evidence that I was connected remotely, I couldn't access my home network while connected. Thanks for the link.

I've fiddled with WireGuard a bit too. I think I have it set up but no idea how to make it a reliable way in or out of Unraid. Not much help found other than, "it's all built in" ... not exactly? Throw me an up to date link or two for that! As I said, I'm no expert. Just looking for info. It seems it's hard to find, even on this forum. Don't get me wrong. I appreciate it all! I guess I find it difficult to believe that somebody using Unraid hasn't encountered the difficulties I face with some relatively basic setup. Maybe I'm naive. Maybe I'm just stubborn? But I have spent a lot of time reading posts and watching videos that don't seem to ever get me to "joy." 😞 It seems often there's an unspoken assumption that this all should be easy ... since it "worked for me" and explained with no shortage of jargon and anachronisms. For the average joe, frankly it can be exhausting. Are there some step by step guides that actually end up with what the titles suggest? Seems the blind might be leading the blind (Me!). I'm not entirely useless ... just need the info to get it done.

I've got say, I've just spent a frustrating week of vacation with the thought that I'd settle in and set up a proxy manager and Cloudflare tunnel on my Unraid box. I've spent literally hours trying to get connected through a Cloudflare tunnel with the thought that NextCloud, a website or a wiki might be a useful way to leverage my new Unraid server I built over winter. No joy. Am I bitter? Maybe a little. Just to say I hear what turco is saying. I have PLEX and Syncthing migrated from my Windows PC/QNap and working well. The other stuff? ... really complicated ... perhaps too complicated. Like the origin poster, I'm no network guy or a nerd but I usually accomplish most of my own tech support. Is Unraid good for a newbie? Not really, if the intention is to move beyond the basics. I wish it hadn't taken so much of my time before I realized that some things I will just not accomplish. Who knows, maybe some day? In the past I've invested in a couple of QNap NAS's -- I get tiffed that they go out of date, firmware upgrades stop and they're so under powered, retirement is their only career path. For now, I think I'll turf the dreams of Cloudflare tunnel through to Unraid and the many neat options that could open up. Do I "need" these things? Probably not. However, I would certainly appreciate some tutorials/videos/howtos that took the time to explain how these "easy" implementations in Unraid, marketed as a home server option, might be accomplished without a CS degree. or extensive programming experience 🙂 With the right guide, maybe dumbed down just a little for the rest of us, it shouldn't be that difficult?