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I've been considering using tailscale for SSHing into my desktop when I work somewhere else like a coffee shop, etc. Do folks recommend it for this use case or

I've been considering using tailscale for SSHing into my desktop when I work somewhere else like a coffee shop, etc. Do folks recommend it for this use case or is there another product people would recommend?

rockwotj 4y ago
I see someone mentioned zerotier, tailscale has a good comparison doc: https://tailscale.com/compare/zerotier/ https://tailscale.com/compare/zerotier/
croutonwagon 4y ago
I put it on a couple devices in my home, namely a couple pikvms. It was useful for sure when I left home for 3 weeks. During that time we lost power. My modem somehow dropped out of bridge mode and went into some type of routed mode, double batting me. My main vpn access was offline as a result. It gave me a secondary option to remote in and fix the double NaT issue as well as the pikvm allowing me to make sure a few ancillaries came up cleanly (mostly Pi-hole and dhcp). I’m still a bit shaky about keeping it. But I had the forethought to set it up ahead of time and was glad I did. So much so I’m bringing a pi with tailscale down to my parents (I support their big house wifi setup and subsequently my mothers out of the home consulting business)
atonse 4y ago
I can only vouch for how smooth it was. It was flawless when I did this two years ago and worked in a park using VS Code Remote. It was also very low bandwidth since it wasn’t a screen share. And all the UI is local with VS Code remote.
youainti 4y ago
I use it to link my computer in my office, home pc, laptop, home server, and phones.
linsomniac 4y ago
I've been using tailscale extensively for around 6 months now, with a lot of the use being for my mac laptop to run a wezterm hosted on my Linux laptop. This is kind of a weird mix of tmux and ssh X forwarding. Sometimes I'm on a second WiFi at home, sometimes on the same network at home, sometimes at a coffee shop or on via my cell phone. Tailscale has been just great.
gonewest 4y ago
It’s a good use case and the one that got me started. I also have a raspberry pi acting as an exit node in my home which is useful when I’m at the coffee shop or in a hotel. Not just terminals — I have done videoconferencing via that exit node, and I’ve even worked in a “hybrid” mode where some services are on a tailnet, others are on a company VPN, as we haven’t migrated the company over fully. I don’t have high expectations for actual screen sharing a la VNC or whatever, but it does work, and my lowered expectations for how well I can work that way not specific to Tailscale.

rockwotj 4y ago

I see someone mentioned zerotier, tailscale has a good comparison doc: https://tailscale.com/compare/zerotier/ https://tailscale.com/compare/zerotier/

croutonwagon 4y ago

I put it on a couple devices in my home, namely a couple pikvms. It was useful for sure when I left home for 3 weeks. During that time we lost power. My modem somehow dropped out of bridge mode and went into some type of routed mode, double batting me. My main vpn access was offline as a result. It gave me a secondary option to remote in and fix the double NaT issue as well as the pikvm allowing me to make sure a few ancillaries came up cleanly (mostly Pi-hole and dhcp). I’m still a bit shaky about keeping it. But I had the forethought to set it up ahead of time and was glad I did. So much so I’m bringing a pi with tailscale down to my parents (I support their big house wifi setup and subsequently my mothers out of the home consulting business)

atonse 4y ago

I can only vouch for how smooth it was. It was flawless when I did this two years ago and worked in a park using VS Code Remote. It was also very low bandwidth since it wasn’t a screen share. And all the UI is local with VS Code remote.

youainti 4y ago

I use it to link my computer in my office, home pc, laptop, home server, and phones.

linsomniac 4y ago

I've been using tailscale extensively for around 6 months now, with a lot of the use being for my mac laptop to run a wezterm hosted on my Linux laptop. This is kind of a weird mix of tmux and ssh X forwarding. Sometimes I'm on a second WiFi at home, sometimes on the same network at home, sometimes at a coffee shop or on via my cell phone. Tailscale has been just great.

gonewest 4y ago

It’s a good use case and the one that got me started. I also have a raspberry pi acting as an exit node in my home which is useful when I’m at the coffee shop or in a hotel. Not just terminals — I have done videoconferencing via that exit node, and I’ve even worked in a “hybrid” mode where some services are on a tailnet, others are on a company VPN, as we haven’t migrated the company over fully. I don’t have high expectations for actual screen sharing a la VNC or whatever, but it does work, and my lowered expectations for how well I can work that way not specific to Tailscale.