I am helping my father who does not live with me with some remote tech support. I need him to be able to access a SMB share on my UNRAID server.

 

Our subnets are the same, so I need to connect via the server's wireguard network IP instead of its local IP. I connected his (Mac) laptop via Wireguard. I can access the UNRAID admin page, but when I try and connect via SMB it says there was an error connecting to the server. 

 

I think this may have to do with the fact that SMB is not listening on the wireguard network. As discussed, I cannot use the local IP even though remote access to LAN is setup because of the fact that both my and my parents subnets are the same (192.168.1.0/24). Is there a way to listen for SMB connections over the wireguard interface>

Edited August 5, 20232 yr by 54lzy

34 minutes ago, 54lzy said:

I am helping my father who does not live with me with some remote tech support. I need him to be able to access a SMB share on my UNRAID server. I connected his (Mac) laptop via Wireguard. I can access the UNRAID admin page, but when I try and connect via SMB it says there was an error connecting to the server. 

 

Has anyone encountered this issue and have a solution? Do I need to whitelist being able to access SMB via wireguard or something?

 

I think this may have to do with the fact that SMB is not listening on the wireguard network. My fathers router IPs are same as mine so I am trying to connect using the Unraid servers wireguard IP and not the unraid servers regular IP. If this is the issue how can I resolve?

you can definitely access SMB shares via WireGuard - I do it all the time.

 

I have, however, configured my router to not use the default subnet so that I am almost certainly on a different subnet when I try and connect remotely.    Not sure if this explains why I do not have problems as I would have thought using the server WireGuard ip address should work.

Right - I think one solution would be to change my networks subnet (or my fathers). But trying to avoid doing that because my reverse proxy often hard links to IPs.

Im having a similar issue. I can connect to the vpn and when i ping an IP on my home network it works. But when i try to add the network drive to my remote laptop. it gives me this error

6 minutes ago, stanek7110 said:

Im having a similar issue. I can connect to the vpn and when i ping an IP on my home network it works. But when i try to add the network drive to my remote laptop. it gives me this error

 

I fixed my issue. I was trying to map network drive instead of adding a network location 🤦‍♂️

Hi @54lzy
I had a similar problem. My Solution is described in detail the German forum:
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/125268-ipv4-ds-lite/#findComment-1579293

Basically solution was:
Step 1: Change Wireguard to use IPv6
AllowedIPs = 192.168.178.0/24, ::/0
Endpoint = [7zPulbicAdress3y5n.myfritz.net]:56769

Step 2: Make sure SMB listens to IPv6 Interface as well:
Settings → Network Services → SMB → Extra configuration
bind interfaces only = no

Step 3: Use different Port then 445 for SMB
Settings → Network Services → SMB → Extra configuration
smb ports = 1445

Then restart samba service:
/etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart

Usage:
smbclient -L //192.168.178.10 -p 1445 -U username -W Workgroup
or in Linux File Browser like Nemo:

smb://192.168.178.10:1445/

Edited September 19, 2025Sep 19 by Asgard