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How to setup Tailscale on NETGEAR READYNAS Devices
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How to setup Tailscale on NETGEAR READYNAS Devices

Download and Extract Tailscale

  1. Go to the the Tailscale Linux Download Website and select 'Other' as the distro.
  2. Enable SSH on the NAS, and SSH into the admin account
  3. Do su and type in the admin password
  4. Download the stable release for 'arm' not arm64 in the admin home directory
  5. Unpack the archive with tar xvf tailscale_VERSION_ARCH.tgz

Moving files into locations

  1. tailscale -> /usr/bin
  2. tailscaled -> /usr/sbin
  3. systemd/tailscaled.service -> /etc/systemd/system

Chmoding files to execute

  1. chmod +x /usr/bin/tailscale
  2. chmod +x /usr/sbin/tailscaled

Editing the systemd service to work

  1. Remove lines 4 & 5 (the Wants= line and After= line)
  2. Remove line 8 (the EnvironmentFile= line)
  3. Remove everything after tailscaled.sock on the line starting with ExecStart=

The file should look like this

Starting / Enabling the service

  1. systemctl start tailscaled
  2. tailscale up
  3. systemctl enable tailscaled

Done! 🎉

Tell me if anything is broken or doesn't work.

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tux7k commented May 3, 2025

Maybe your ReadyNAS doesn't feature Debian and uses some other init system, that would probably make it a little more tricky to get it setup. If you can find which init system your ReadyNAS uses, you could probably find some guide on getting tailscale working on that.

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rlsx commented Oct 14, 2025 •
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Thanks for the instructions.
I am using a Readynas RN314 with an Intel Atom 2 Dual Core CPU, running ReadyNAS OS6, 6.10.10.
So I chose to download istead "amd64: tailscale_1.88.3_amd64.tgz", and used your instructions as a template.
There is a file tailscaled.defaults not mentionned in your isntructions. I put in in /etc/systemd/system/
Tailscale is apparently running correctly. I can ssh into the NAS, using its tailscale IP.
But, following the Tailscale docs carefully, I have'nt managed to make the NAS an exit node.
Runniing "tailscale status" gives the following:

# Health check:
# - running [/sbin/iptables -t nat -N ts-postrouting --wait]: exit status 3: iptables v1.4.21: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

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alfenzo77 commented Nov 9, 2025

Buongiorno, esiste un video online della procedura sopra scritta?

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tux7k commented Dec 2, 2025

Hi @rlsx !
I also had the same issue with setting it up as an exit node, and didn't find a solution (though I didn't try hard to). There is probably some networking rule setup that you have to tweak but I'm honestly not sure. I ended up just setting up an exit node somewhere else. Also just as a note, I wouldn't try updating the system since I've heard it can brick it (:

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