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Better than Just VPN for the Home Lab

HunterLAFR
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Hi everyone!
I wanted to write today about a tool that happily surprised me and now has made my life easier, related to VPN and connectivity, its called Tailscale

The main slogan says :

Secure remote access to shared resources

Tailscale connects your team's devices and development environments for easy access to remote resources.

I’ll try to put it on my own words, in my use case, I’ve been using it at the beginning to connect to my Home Lab remotely from my house to my “Jump Station” over RDP, then, I started to use some advanced features:

  • VPN Access to a single client
  • VPN to Remote Site, to access other devices not capable to install the Client
  • Proxy / Traffic router when Im out of the house or in a untrusted network
  • Web central console for configurations, users creation and management.
  • Easy to use client for Linux, Windows, Android, OSX, iOS, etc.

The client is very neat, clean and easy to use, 
also the documentation is great!
Im gong to post a few screenshots and will make a future entry with an example setup.

The “Free” version comes with great features to start using it, as I said, in my case, at my home lab,

https://tailscale.com/pricing/

One of the positive things for me, is that I dont need to setup a firewall + opening ports for connecting from / to my hose / homelab, the Iphone / Ipad client works “like a champ” and I can access all I need, and secure my traffic navigating from my home when needed.

Web Main Console
OSX Client
Iphone Client

 

Hopefully you like it and if you give it a try lets comment the use cases and features you like the most.

I will try to post in a few days a “demo” or test with different machines.

 

thanks

 

Luis.

Luis F.- HunterLF - HunterLAFR - lfconsulting.org

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just easy question, have you tried the script without the variable, writing the password manually in that step? or written directly? just to ensure that is not other thing, like previous login attempts or so.
Thanks, Yes, I had already tried it both ways as I worked on the test script.
Believe me, this is not a simple password issue.

Not sure, maybe this is the issue
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/accessing-server-locally-with-fqdn-cname-alias-denied


here is the text exact text script, including the exact username and password.
tho i did change tailnet ip/dns.

set username=agent_en10
set password=fdsaasdf#1
set sharename=agent_en10

net use \\127.0.0.1\%sharename% /delete
net use \\localhost\%sharename% /delete
net use \\111.111.111.111\%sharename% /delete
net use \\ts-en10\%sharename% /delete
net use \\ts-en10.tail00000.ts.net\%sharename% /delete

net use \\127.0.0.1\%sharename% /user:%username% "%password%"
net use \\localhost\%sharename% /user:%username% "%password%"
net use \\111.111.111.111\%sharename% /user:%username% "%password%"
net use \\ts-en10\%sharename% /user:%username% "%password%"
net use \\ts-en10.tail00000.ts.net\%sharename% /user:%username% "%password%"

 

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