remote log into TS-464 with Putty

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I am trying to install Tailscale, and it wont bring up my login screen. After searching I found what some people are saying fixed their issue:

/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/Tailscale/tailscale up

But I am unable to get putty to log in?. I can log into my qnap with myQNAPcloud, and made sure that ssh is enabled and what port to use.

I am trying to log in with my WAN IP address. I have used putty before at home on my network, and it works fine. This is my first time trying to do it remotely.

Thanks in advance.

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You can’t log in with your WAN address because your firewall is blocking it. And you WANT that to happen. You don’t want people to have access to your SSH shell and attempt to hack it.

That’s why you want to have Tailscale operational so you can run a VPN.

So…

I would try stopping and restarting the TailScale service. How are you attempting to reach the login screen? I’m not 100% familiar with TailScale, but I believe you connect to a proxy server from outside your network. And the NAS is connected to that proxy server.

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Thanks for the reply. I am just trying to install Tailscale. It installs. But just sits on the screen without the log in box popping up. I have never tried to SSH into the qnap remotely. Putty wants an IP address which I assumed was my WAN ip

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If you router supports upnp, in the myqnapcloud app top right menu you can find the auto router config.
You can open port 22 for ssh there. (which you shouldnt do :D)

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But if you tailscale connection is established, you would use your NAS LAN (or transit) IP to access SSH, not the WAN one.

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Please no!

Thank you - but I would rather we not even suggest such things. Using upnp on the router is just asking for trouble…

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I can’t establish a connection with Tailscale because it won’t get me to the log in screen. It just sits on a grey screen. When I searched the same issue people were saying they were able to get to the log in screen once they ssh’d into the Qnap and used that login script

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Then you have to first be in the same network as your NAS, this will not work via CloudLink as SSH is not part of the CloudLink service.

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Thank you. I’ll do it once I’m back home. I really do appreciate the assistance