[TriLUG] Home VPN?

[Bill Farrow via TriLUG]

As previously stated, Tailscale is really good for this use case using
their free tier. Very simple to set up and try out. No need to open ports
on your home firewall. Easy to configure. Etc.

There is also the open source Headscale project which you can configure the
clients yo use.




Bill


On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM Matthew Glassman via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> What I’m looking to do is to create some thing allows me to remote into my
> home network securely from outside to be able to do various things that
> would help troubleshoot or manage items like my kids lubuntu computer like
> ssh into it or access a file server or print something on the home
> printer.  I figure a von would be this entry point and be a bit more
> secure.  Besides it also sounded like a good project
> On Feb 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM -0500, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com>, wrote:
> > If I'm reading this correctly, you are looking to set up a VPN endpoint
> at home that would allow you to connect from networks afar that would
> establish a tunnel to your home while you were somewhere remote?  If this
> is the case Ubiquiti routers, some at least, provide a zero configuration
> WireGuard VPN they call Teleport. It is not as much fun as building your
> town, granted, but it can give you some peace of mind running the VPN until
> you have the hours and expertise setting up a VPN server from scratch.
> >
> > Just a thought.
> >
> >
> https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/5246403561495-UniFi-Gateway-Teleport-VPN
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM Matthew Glassman via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> > > How difficult and precarious is it to set up a home VPN without
> relying on
> > > something like NORD or some other service?  I had the thought that
> maybe
> > > I'd want to try doing that but wasn't sure where to start and what I
> might
> > > want to consider.
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