As Tailscale is part of Unraid now I ask here.

In the past years I tried Tailscale a couple of times and I was stuck at the same problem always. I can't get my SMB shares to work. I simply don't see them within the Tailscale environment.

I've setup some SMB shares within the SMB extra configuration like that:

[Docs]

path=/mnt/disk1/Docs

comment =

browseable = yes

public = yes

writeable = yes

vfs objects =

I can see these folders everywhere but not within Tailscale.

What's the secret?

Thanks in advance.

Please post your Diagnostics file in a new post in this Thread.

@Frank1940 Diagnostics attached.

Tailscale was installed and deleted at least 4 times. I never could get SMB to work. I don't use User Shares, only Disk Shares. 5 Shares are manually added thru smb-extras.cfg. These manually added shares work system-wide. They don't work within the Tailscale environment.

I won't install Tailscale again without a hint what might be the reason.

tower-diagnostics-20260612-0751.zip

You are the first person that I have run to who is simply using Disk shares only. And you (apparently) are permitting access to everything on your server from any 'guest' account. (Which means anyone who has access to your server.)

I have shared a disk via 'Disk Shares' (SHARES >>>>> Disk Shares and chose a disk# to share and set up the security settings from there to share that entire disk ) but I have never tried to setup sharing a directory entry point from a disk as a Share.

I looked at your Diagnostics and did not find an entry for a SMB share named Docs and that confuses me. Did you generate a dummy entry or what?

I am also assuming that when you make this statement:

On 6/11/2026 at 4:34 AM, hawihoney said:

I can see these folders everywhere but not within Tailscale.

you are talking about accessing via SMB on your local LAN.

A screenshot like this (from Windows File Explorer) could be useful:

Note that the 'cache' share in this shot is a Disk Shares as is 'flash'. All of my shares are 'Private' and access type is on a need-to-know basis.

Edited June 12Jun 12 by Frank1940

I just tried accessing my server via Tailscale on a computer that has Tailscale access setup on it and this is what I got:

And, while I could see all the shares, I could only access those shares that that computer user had permissions to access, Everything is working exactly as expected...

Edited June 12Jun 12 by Frank1940

4 hours ago, Frank1940 said:

Which means anyone who has access to your server

There are only my people with access. Running Unraid since 18 years like that. Nothing exposed except Plex. Remote access with VPN to the router works, I was testing Tailscale and never could access my shares.

4 hours ago, Frank1940 said:

Docs

Was an example when writing my first post. The real shares are within smb-extra.cfg.

4 hours ago, Frank1940 said:

you are talking about accessing via SMB on your local LAN.

Yes, that works always.

4 hours ago, Frank1940 said:

A screenshot like this (from Windows File Explorer) could be useful

No Windows at all. All using Linux and Android. Both work out of the box with the shares in smb-extra. Attached is a screenshot from Android.

When using Tailscale no shares are shown.

4 hours ago, Frank1940 said:

You are the first person that I have run to who is simply using Disk shares only.

I forgot to explain that. This is one single huge server. These Disk Shares are given to Plex. User Shares did spin up a complete backplane to find a directory/file sometimes. Has to do with caching. When using Disk Shares, this never happened or happens. The server has 128 GB memory. Not expandable.

Here's what it looks like. The first pools are running thru backplane expanders (Alternative 1). Means that User Shares would spin up more than one backplane in case of low memory.

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/147889-verwendung-der-expander-auf-backplanes-oder-doch-hbas/

Edited June 12Jun 12 by hawihoney

You are saying that no shares (disk# or Samba-extra defined shares) are showing up under Tailscale? (I am no Tailscale expert but rather I set it up using the cookbook method. I didn't have any problems. I thought it might be because you were using disk shares but I have two disk sahres showing on the tailscale client...

I will point out one more thing, With a User Share, you can restrict the share to only one disk. See here for how to do that:

If you specify that the User Share is restricted to a single disk, you will have a essentially a Disk Share. It also allows you to add a second disk if the original disk becomes full. (PS--- This was a share that I setup to test something or other out on– don't remember what it was!)

At this point, I am going to bail out as I have nothing more to contribute.

51 minutes ago, Frank1940 said:

You are saying that no shares (disk# or Samba-extra defined shares) are showing up under Tailscale?

Exactly.

52 minutes ago, Frank1940 said:

At this point, I am going to bail out as I have nothing more to contribute.

Thanks anyway.

I read nearly every single article regarding Tailscale and SMB. Not one single hint worked. Seems that Tailscale has something against me 😟

Which firewall do you have? I use pfsense, and when I first set up tailscale I was messing with SMB. Can't remember whether it was because of speed issues or because I couldn't get it to work at all. Long story short, I opened port 41641 on pfSense, and BAM, everything worked like a charm.

On 6/12/2026 at 11:11 PM, strike said:

Which firewall do you have?

I didn't install an own firewall. Just the one that came with my router from AVM - Fritzbox.