Tailscale package for Synology NAS

Synology NAS package for Tailscale based on precompiled static binaries.

Disclaimer

You use everything here at your own risk. Make sure you have other network paths to your NAS before installing this, in case something goes wrong.

Installation

Check the releases page for SPKs for your platform. If there is no SPK you have to compile it yourself using the instructions below.

1. In the Synology DSM web admin UI, open the Package Center.
2. Press the Manual install button and provide the SPK file.
3. Follow the wizard until done.
4. At this point tailscaled should be up and running.
5. SSH into the machine, and run sudo tailscale up so you can authenticate.

Compatibility

The current package is confirmed to be working in different Synology models and architectures.

The package is created based on Tailscale static binaries, and if your NAS has any of the supported architectures (x86, x86_64, arm, arm64) it should just work.

If in doubt, check the synology model list for the matching architecture.

Making packages

This project builds Synology packages "by hand", based on pre-compiled tailscale static binaries.

You can build the packages using make

git clone https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-synology.git
cd tailscale-synology/
make

If everything worked you should have a directory called spks that contains your SPK files.

Credits and References

• Thanks to @nirev for creating this project and transferring it to Tailscale's GitHub org.
• https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/synology-nas/ for the /dev/net/tun thing
• Package structure: Synology Package Developer Guide
• Official Package building tool: pkgscripts-ng
• The package building process was originally based on synology-wireguard
  If you need to compile a synology package, check it out.