Yeah, but my wife and kid also use it, and they’re not going to be happy if I change things.

And I just tested streaming from my free server to my free phone while said server is at my house, and my phone is with me at work.

Works fine over a VPN.

As was stated on the first post you made about this, it’s a dns or nat reflection issue.

Plex sees you accessing it through your external IP address, and not through your lan IP.

I had a similar problem, and had to roll back some nat changes I made, and now it’s working fine again.

Meanwhile, free remote streaming works fine if you have a proper VPN setup. I just tested it, and was able to stream to my phone, through the Plex app, over my tailscale VPN, and I do not have Plex pass on the server or on my phone…

Real world usage tells me all I need to know.

SMB isn’t really all that slow these days.

I have NFS and SMB shares set up (same directory) and copying files to/from them maxes out my gigabit LAN.

SSH on the other hand is slower, because there’s more CPU overhead.

I do all of those things except neuter animals. Most rural folks do.

Another option is virtualization.

Separate your sharing server from your remote access server, then have them each connect to a different VPN

This is how I do it.

I have several containers and a couple of VMs running on my one server. My router is also currently virtualized (OpnSense running in a Proxmox VM, works great) and it connects to tailscale and uses subnet routing to allow my LAN devices to be accessed from outside my home without putting them directly on the Internet.

Meanwhile, I have two more VPNs set up for two different sharing servers. All on one physical machine.

Tailscale can actually use a Mullvad exit point. I don’t know if you knew that …

TS works better for me than ZT. I started with ZT first, and had random access issues between my android phone, my VPS, and all my local devices.

The local devices could all ping each other’s Zerotier IP addresses, but the vps and phone had issues pinging them, but not each other.

Meanwhile, tailscale is working fine, and I’ve even set up subnet routing so I only need it on my phone, my VPS, and my OpnSense system.

With Zerotier, I couldn’t get routing to work at all.

How, exactly, do you have Intel HD graphics, found on Intel APUs, on a Ryzen AMD system?

Did you even read the link? You don’t need it on every device. It’s not really that difficult to understand.

I AM A 48 YEAR OLD FORMER FUCKING TRUCK DRIVER FOR FUCKS SAKE, and yet, I still managed to set up tailscale on my phone and a computer, and then access my stuff that ISNT running tailscale in any way, shape or form, from my phone, simply because I decided to figure it the fuck out.

Stop being so damned lazy.

I am so fucking tired of this “cater to the lowest common denominator” bullshit.

For #3, subnet routing.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets

I’m the only one in my family who accesses it on the web player, and the other ways still work fine.

I’m not breaking something for the other two users in my household because of my own convenience.

Access via IP address and not the name. I’ve been having to do it that way for several days now, too.

Edit to add: It’s due to a change I made in my OpnSense setup. I restored a ZFS snapshot and it’s working again as it should.

There’s also the slightly-less-hidden cost.

Electricity to run your home server(s).

Instructions unclear, now my server is slowly floating into the sky…