54lzy Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 (edited) 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, 2023 by 54lzy Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment
54lzy Posted August 5, 2023 Author Share Posted August 5, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment
stanek7110 Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 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 Quote Link to comment
stanek7110 Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 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 🤦♂️ Quote Link to comment
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