Recently, I got the headsup on tailscale. It's a pretty nifty almost-zero-config personal VPN for the purposes of
establishing secure and encrypted tunnels over your own
machines as a custom network.

Prior to tailscale, I was using AnyDesk cuz it just worked and
did not need any port forwarding pre-considerations. (My router
has a broken port-forwarding feature - the settings didn't
stick - but AnyDesk overcame that.

At some point AnyDesk deemed my usage commercial primarily
because I was using it too regularly. :(

Then there was several months of time that I wasn't using
anything at all and lived without the need to reach my remote
machines for transferring files or observing processes.

But tailscale is looking like a great solution!

I can launch a VNC connection from my remote pc to my home pc.

A VNC connection from my home pc to my remote pc is having an
issue but I can work around it by accessing the Filezilla-
server on the remote to transfer files to and from home.

I am operting Win7 systems on both remote and home pc.

Tailscale is availble for Win, iOS, MacOS, Android, Linux

See https://tailscale.com/

For a simple home "network" of machines, the free offering
could be all that one needs.

Tailscale takes care of the networking authenticated machines.
After that, you can reach any service that any machine supports
whether it is VNC, Remote Desktop, SSH, FTP, etc.. and you
have a fully secure, and encrypted personal VPN.

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Recently, I got the headsup on tailscale. It's a pretty nifty almost-zero-config personal VPN for the purposes of
establishing secure and encrypted tunnels over your own
machines as a custom network.

Prior to tailscale, I was using AnyDesk cuz it just worked and
did not need any port forwarding pre-considerations. (My router
has a broken port-forwarding feature - the settings didn't
stick - but AnyDesk overcame that.

At some point AnyDesk deemed my usage commercial primarily
because I was using it too regularly. :(

Then there was several months of time that I wasn't using
anything at all and lived without the need to reach my remote
machines for transferring files or observing processes.

But tailscale is looking like a great solution!

If you like that, self-host w/ Zero-Tier and/or headscale... its what I use.



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Ogg wrote to All <=-

Recently, I got the headsup on tailscale. It's a pretty nifty almost-zero-config personal VPN for the purposes of
establishing secure and encrypted tunnels over your own
machines as a custom network.

Sounds great. I need a zero-install VPN, as I'm traveling more for work
and don't want to install an app on my work PC. I had a nice Lenovo
2-in-1 tablet running Windows 11 that I bought on a lark and used to
bring with me, but I loaned it to my son for school.

If anyone has a recommendation for such a beast, I'd love to hear about
it.


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Hello poindexter FORTRAN!

Recently, I got the headsup on tailscale. It's a pretty nifty

Sounds great. I need a zero-install VPN, as I'm traveling more for work and don't want to install an app on my work PC. I had a nice Lenovo
2-in-1 tablet running Windows 11 that I bought on a lark and used to
bring with me, but I loaned it to my son for school.

If anyone has a recommendation for such a beast, I'd love to hear about it.

You mean beast as in 2-in-1 tablet?

Not sure what a 2-in-1 tablet is.. do you mean a tablet with
detachable or functional kb?

You can attach pretty much any kb to a tablet via Blutooth, no?


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Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

You mean beast as in 2-in-1 tablet?

Not sure what a 2-in-1 tablet is.. do you mean a tablet with
detachable or functional kb?

You can attach pretty much any kb to a tablet via Blutooth, no?

Yes, a tablet running Windows with a removeable keyboard a la Surface
would be nice, or a laptop with a screen that rotates around to tablet
mode.

What I was referring to was a no-install VPN that I could set up on a
work Windows laptop to connect to my home network.



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Hello pF!

What I was referring to was a no-install VPN that I could set up on a
work Windows laptop to connect to my home network.

Tailscale has cooperated well. Even the basic CLI method works
well to send and receive files, albiet those files have to be
in specific directories. Haven't tried the Taildrop file-
transfer feature yet. I'd rather get VNC working so that I can
navigate my remote system freely, and even use VNC's built-in
file transfer feature.

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