Taildrop and Taildrive

Taildrop

Taildrop sends files directly between machines over the tailnet. It’s enabled for every organization.

# send
tailscale file cp report.pdf my-laptop:

# receive (Linux)
sudo tailscale file get ~/Downloads

Desktop and mobile apps also show Taildrop in their share menus. Files can only be sent between machines owned by the same user. See Tailscale’s Taildrop docs.

Taildrive

Taildrive shares folders from a machine as a WebDAV drive that other machines can mount. It’s off until the policy grants it. Allow sharing and access with nodeAttrs and a grants rule with the tailscale.com/cap/drive capability, for example:

"nodeAttrs": [
  { "target": ["autogroup:member"], "attr": ["drive:share", "drive:access"] },
],
"grants": [
  {
    "src": ["autogroup:member"],
    "dst": ["autogroup:self"],
    "app": { "tailscale.com/cap/drive": [{ "shares": ["*"], "access": "rw" }] },
  },
],

Then share a folder on the machine with tailscale drive share. See Tailscale’s Taildrive docs and Headscale’s policy reference.