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Any tips on setting up a VPN or other means of accessing your machines remotely?

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AstonJ

AstonJ

Any tips on setting up a VPN or other means of accessing your machines remotely?

Following on from part of the discussion in the Digital Nomads & Frequent Travellers (Tips/Advice/Chat) thread, I thought it might be an idea to have a dedicated thread on setting up a VPN or other remote access software.

If you have any questions, advice, links to how-tos or have such a set-up yourself, please let us know!

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AndyL

AndyL

Try Zerotier or Tailscale. Game changer for remote access.

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derek-zhou

derek-zhou

I just use a SSH reverse proxy. A shell is all that I need.

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dimitarvp

dimitarvp

I’m definitely going for Tailscale with the open Headscale control plane node (so I don’t depend on Tailscale’s servers) later this year.

I pondered a few solutions like ZeroTier and Slack’s Nebula but it’s either too much work to configure, or it has speed / reliability problems.

I’ve used Tailscale in 3 jobs with zero issues ever. It just disappears and does its job.

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kevinschweikert

kevinschweikert

I’ve enjoyed https://netbird.io/ as a Tailscale alternative. It’s open source and they just built upon exisiting technologies like Wireguard and WebRTC - How NetBird Works - NetBird Docs

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LostKobrakai

LostKobrakai

Yeah, wireguard / tailscale are my goto nowadays. Once the networking question is handled you can then run everything else on top of that, like Samba/VNC/….

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