Hi All,

Goal: To access samba shares remotely, mostly in order to be able to watch media no matter where I'm at.

Summary: I have tailscale up and running but I cannot access SMB shares (on laptop or Android phone, both confirmed to have tailscale working)

How Do I Know TailScale is Up: I can access unRAID login page remotely without issue using Tailscale IP.

Samba Error: When I try to access SMB shares using Dolpin file manager I get "could not connect to host using smb://100.xx.xxx.xx/Share, same type of error on file browser on phone. I'm using my username and password from unRAID.

What I've Tried:

(1) Enabling subnet (192.168.0.0/24) - didn't think this was necessary but tried;

(2) Enabling Exit Node - didn't think this was necessary but tried.

I've watched too many YouTube tutorials to remember and none have just the simple task of accessing a samba share remotely (they're all usually about accessing containers remotely, which, cool, but, not my need at the moment).

Edited October 3, 2025Oct 3 by JRubenol

Sometimes, a full reboot just does the trick. Problem resolved.