File Copies to/from Synology under Windows over Tailscale Slowing and Stalling

I’ve had this issue on and off for the several months that I’ve owned a Synology NAS – trying to copy files greater than a few hundred megabytes in size, the file transfer will work for a few seconds, then the transfer rate will slow, stall, and eventually throw some connection error (which I forgot to write down).

Seems like this is a relatively common issue with Synology NAS and there are a lot of posts about it but not many solutions.

Just to try to add some signal to the noise, here is the fix I found.

The issue is flagged in the Tailscale Github:

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/10408

… and the solution is actually in the Tailscale support docs:

https://tailscale.com/kb/1131/synology#enable-outbound-connections

Basically it’s just a case of running the following as root:

/var/packages/Tailscale/target/bin/tailscale configure-host; synosystemctl restart pkgctl-Tailscale.service

The docs explain how to add it to the task system, but running it manually instantly fixed the issue for me (Synology DS923+).

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