I use Rustdesk daily, and host my own server on a VPS. Quite reliable and solid.
I use Rustdesk daily, and host my own server on a VPS. Quite reliable and solid.
For a remote nontechnical user, coaching them through installing a Tailscale client that registers to your account seems pretty accessible.
If you can get on a screen share with her through something like Signal desktop, then walking her through the steps and pasting a WG key in chat might not be so bad.
I suggest using a client that is easy for her to update without requiring a call. Another point for Tailscale I think.
Tailscale and Rustdesk are my go to for family PCs.
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The way ive done this is to set up the wireguard tunnel on my mothers router. right now thats an OpenWrt device. I did it while I was there but if I had to do it remote I'd buy a device, install OpenWrt and config it, and then ship it to her.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
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Nobody mentioned this but route only the necessary traffic to your router (all your self-hosted services) with wireguard's split tunneling (just set the apropriate allowed_ip networks in your wg config).
You could set it to 0.0.0.0/0 and send all her traffic through your router but this could potientially choke your own network and make her own speed slow down.
I just realised that I could totally do that by reading your comment. I've always used 0.0.0.0/0 because my router sets that as its default when creating Wireguard configs, but it makes so much sense to just route the connections for my homelab.
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Router based is best. If your router doesn't support wg out of box. Use a rpi or something to create the tunnel on the network and then use a static route on the router to make the remote network routable. The rpi is the next hop for whatever your remote network address range is.
As others have mentioned, Tailscale would be about the easiest to do, imo. However, I would still walk her through installing RDP. That way you can administer whatever may happen in the future, which is very likely to happen.
The reverse proxy is in beta and it's disabled by default. I did not spot any rough edges around the core features. With my only three nodes and one exit node, everything works well.
Tailscale is just more reliable and mature in my experience
What sort of issues have you run into? I'm currently on Tailscale, but was considering Netbird because it's open source. (Also, I hate that Tailscale requires me to create an account with Big Tech to login.)
They seem pretty close in terms of features, at least in the simple cases.
Where are you installing it for her, PC or router?
What OS is she running? Router?
What other remote tools do you have available?
I mean you've given us nothing to work with.
Frankly I'd just use Tailscale.
Tailscale is good because it never breaks if your ISP switches your home IP on you. The only downside is that some public or corporate wifi networks will block the official Tailscale servers
does she have a linux/mac/m$win pc? if so, you can remote into it and work there.
Netbird is great and very user-friendly. Well, relatively. I had to bumble my way through the setup the first time and redo it, but certainly a lot easier than headscale/tailscale.
Why do you want to set this up, though?
thanks for using Leebra!
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I would walk her through a setup for Anydesk or other RDP software then just take control and do it yourself. No point in causing them stress if they get click happy.
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