Coming in as basically a layperson with no relevant knowledge or understanding, the most important line in this video was near the end: "This is super useful for accessing things like home automation." I recently started using Tailscale as a way to easily do Windows Remote Desktop from my tablet to my home computer, and have been wondering what other practical applications I could use it for. This is a great start!
This saved my 10 inch rack project after I moved into my student dorm to study computer science. Since I had no control over the router, Tailscale gave me an easy way to connect up my devices into one network and to my rack, which runs multiple servers and a custom built NAS in my homelab.
Long time Wireguard user and lover here but tailscale is really a total game-changer, sometimes I think that is almost too good to be true. I use linux, macos and windows machines, setting up virtual private network with tailscale is extremely easy and I'm particularly amazed by the simplicity of the file sharing process (ok linux requires command line, but that's still very cool). You have done a terrific work with this program, I hope hope you get the success that you deserve (but don't cancel the free tier :)
agreed. how on earth after a voodoo magic handshake I can easily access my home network, even on CGNAT. How on earth can I set a funnel to plex and access it anywhere at near local speeds. 0 downtime. I truly cannot understand
@@Spractral it is the latter. I don't know the full process allowing this to happen, but I've come to understand it better as I read more and fiddle more with networks, but yes, it was just to show how magical it feels.
You don't lie! This is truly incredible, all my devices in different locations are now connected within literal minutes. No hassle. This is borderline magic haha. Thank you!
Found out about tailscale today and what an amazing thing you’ve created! Fits my use case perfectly and thank you for a generous free tier, which I hope remains 🤞🤞
WoW, Tailscale, where have you been all my digital life!!! Definitely a game-changer. I'm in the testing phase now. It looks extremely promising. Hats off to the instructor... Thank You.
Alex! Legend mate. What a great idea having you present. Always wondered what you looked like. Long time listener, CoderQA member but first time TailScaler here. Linking up some rigs and self hosted ting for a start up. Self taught. You Chris and Mike are my only friends on the lonely road.
You tackle your program - which admittedly is a very good one - from the point of a professional point of view, therefore I've got a lot of questions that I'd wanna ask and consequently is there anyone that can help anyone like me with any query I certainly have?
Questions: 1. I'm not open to Apple, Google, or Microsoft being an identity provider. We use 1Password, which has also been a passkey provider, and thus appears to be an option with Tailscale. It is easy to recover with the printed-off key that you get at the start, and doesn't tie me to be constantly logged in to any of those services. Do you see any issues or thoughts with using 1Password? 2. I have one asset that is Windows 11 machine, in a data center, with a single public IP address, e.g. no LAN. Can that be included with SSO as part of a flat Tailscale network? 3. For any LANs, I would assume that Tailscale would be transparent to all LAN users so their logins, private IPs, and access will remain unaffected unless they log into Tailscale?
i use it for a mic i use the Steam Link to access my computer, which is about ~140km away from me the only device that i have with me that has a mic is my phone but apps that use the phone as a mic for ur pc connect over ur lan so i routed all my phones data to my computer now i can use my phone as a mic i think its possible to do what im doing in windows (use my desktop as vpn, without downloading anything), but idk how. The app simplified everything for me
Anyone know how to use the command tailscale up in shell for truenas scale? I tried many ways to get in, SSH won't let me through auth, and shell doesn't offer commands.
Hi, thanks a lot for the video, I installed it in seconds. But I can't make a Home Assistant widget on my iPhone works. I have two actions (to open garage doors and main gate) which I would like to open remotely, and I am now able to open those gates through HA app, but for some reason the HA widget doesn't work with tailgate. How can i fix that?
Quick question / point of clarification: at the very end of the exit node you indicated that it was useful for accessing apps you host yourself. I "think" this was a victim of editing that was not necessarily tied it needing to be an exit note to access self-hosted apps and home automation things because that was covered at the beginning with the Own Cloud stuff, right?
For privacy, why would you want to use your own device as an exit node? Really don't like using SSO through companies that make a living off of tracking and monitoring you. Seems an odd choice for privacy. Can you explain some of this in more detail?
Still getting familiar with Tailscale. At ~ 2:40 and ~4:23, both connections are not secured, not TLS/SSL. Is this because the VPN connection between the phone and Tailscale is secure? What security protocol is used to secure the VPN tunnel, e.g., IKEv2/IPsec?
I'm a little confused. If I can remotely connect to an exit node and then access home automation and self-hosted stuff at that location, why set up a subnet router?
But it does matter which one you use. Afaik you get up to three users for free, but if you log in with a Google account, you can't add extra users, can you? A little more clarity needed
Excellent video! But I am strugling to reach certain web-gui (Truenas) on my network even still...this was the main goal for me. I can ping the tail-ip for this machine, but I cannot reach its web-gui. Can someone help? Everything is "connected" in the Tailscale machine-overview etc.
Installed exit node on Truenas, but can’t access via phone outside home network. Is it possible to advertise ip as x.x.x.13/24?(13 is my truenas scale).
Great video explaining how everything works with Tailscale. I have a question however, is an exit node basically a forward proxy? Exit node is basically routing my traffic through it as if I'm accessing the internet from that exit node, as I understand that's what a proxy server does. Or am I understanding it incorrectly.
From a traffic routing perspective, that's correct. Often forward proxies are a little more "active" (inspecting traffic and enforcing policies) and a Tailscale exit node doesn't do any of that, but it does pass traffic through a node in the same way.
can I share that connection with a device that can't run tailscale? For example, can I start Tailscale on my PC, also start a wifi hotspot from that PC, connect my Nintendo Switch to it, and game locally with someone else on switch halfway around the world
Hi nice video, but it would be good to get a sample example of how to setup https with tailnet on a ubuntu cloud server with caddy. I have done this but when it comes to use https I always got a challenge error when getting certificates. If you could help I would appreciate. Thanks in advance.
Im using Unraid and when I go into docker and right click on Nextcloud and click console and type tailscale up, I get command not found. Using tailscale plugin on unraid. Any ideas?
Lets say I have Tailscale setup on my Apple TV at home as an exit node and Tailscale setup on my phone. When I'm out and about away from home on cellular it appears that Tailscale will route traffic through the Apple TV...great. When I come home and reconnect to WiFi that uses the home router as its exit node which exit node will be used...the one for my router or the on via Tailscale on the Apple TV as both will be connected??
Only one exit node can be active concurrently. But seeing as the Apple TV exits through your router via NAT (I assume) then you’re achieving the same result as being on the LAN without having an exit node turned on with extra steps :)
@@Tailscale Your tool is really a godsend! One thing though - would it be possible for Tailscale to automatically disable the exit node when I'm on a trusted network or cell service while still being connected to my Tailscale network, and then automatically reenable the exit node on other networks (to tunnel my traffic back to my trusty network)? It'll really make things a lot more convenient!
@@ipopo I guess you mean to disable the VPN from the tunneled device, not the exit node which may have other devices connected to it and would drop the connection for the other connected devices, right?
I seem to be having trouble having any exit nodes showing up even though I have 3 devices with exit nodes enabled. I also don't see the exit node option under my username when logged into the tailscale ios app. Anyone have ideas why?
Okay I figured it out. In case anyone is having the same issue, in the admin area listing your devices, if your device has a "( i )" next to the "exit node" tag, you still need to go into the routing settings of that device and approve it. I wish they made that step a bit more obvious, perhaps the ( i ) with an orange/red color. Anyways, hope that helps
Dumb question. I sent a comment of applause but this is a question please. That’s an iPhone. What iPhone app are you using as your terminal? Is it part of TailScale? I am used to Linode.
Any security risks to be aware of with this? I get that it helps to keep things secure, but I always feel like there is some gotcha. Definitely seems more secure than opening ports on your router
For some reason, If I try to ping one of my tailnet devices by name, I get a message that the host name cannot be resolved, yet the IP address can be pinged. How do I fix this?
Devices on a tailnet have IP addresses that aren’t publicly accessible - I get that. But I’m not sure how this affects a device that has a DHCP reservation… Is this the address that should be reserved from your pool of addresses?
The Tailscale IP address is in addition to any other IP addresses your device has, such as from a DHCP server. In most cases, it will appear to the rest of your computer and applications as a separate network interface, just like a wired ethernet or wifi interface. The operating system knows to use that special Tailscale interface for any requests for the private 100.x.y.z addresses.
and it's FREE??? insane, thank you for the great video sir. looking to set up a linux ML rig in the house and ssh with the macbook, was wondering how hard it would be. Grab some $NVDA before I snatch a 4090 lolol
All very good for the geek. I'm a newbie home user and this was hard to follow. Gave up at the command prompt as no instruction on how that was done. Reading the comments it appears Blink was used. Searched for that - no such app. But found Blink Shell - you probably mean that. But as I say, a LOT of assumed knowledge. If you want ppl to use your software it would be nice to slow down a little please. This looks excellent, but the presenter is pitching it at advanced users.
Can I use this to access my home ISP IP address from anywhere? I assume I could but I am a noob to this stuff is there anyone who can help me with this? :)
I can access my home ISP IP address using 2x GLINET Slate ax 1800s using WIREGUARD server on one and Wireguard client on another with port frowarding from the isp router...however that keeps connecting and disconneccting randomly - I need something more reliable that won't cause disconnections
I am still struggling to understand the use cases of the exit-node. I get that accessing my banking info at the coffee shop is a great use-case for it but at the end of the video Alex says "In real time, on my phone appears my Desktop as an option to route traffic out from my phone through the encrypted wireguard tunnel and pretend that I am in my house, this is useful for accessing home automation and my self-hosted services". Is that not possible without using exit nodes? Why would I need an exit node for that?
An exit node routes all traffic out through client. Whereas simply being connected to the tailnet only routes the traffic to that client destined for that client. All the rest of your traffic would not go via that exit node.
@@ToryBerra Well, you can't install TailScale on, say, a cheap locally accessible IPcam. But you could access it via a tailscale device designated as an exit node, because the exit node will route your traffic to that internal IP. I guess my question would be how it handles IP conflicts if your home IP range matches the IP range of the network your remote device is on.
Man I am so confused... I got to the point that I have Tailscale running on my server, laptop, and phone. All 3 are displaying in the Machines page of the admin console and showing connected. But beyond that, I don't get how to set up a remote NAS. My NAS volume is set up on the server running Windows Server 2016. Since before Tailscale, I can access the NAS volume from all my devices when on network via both ethernet and Wi-Fi with any file browser, and on my Windows devices I have the NAS volume mapped as a network drive. But of course when I leave my network area, I can't access the drive over the internet. So that's why I am trying to use Tailscale but I don't have a web interface for my Windows Server 2016 NAS so I get lost on that part of this video :(
@@Tailscale haha I’m pretty sure it’s technically illegal to deny you the opportunity for such research. There are a LOT of people desperate to use remote play with their backbone or psportal that can’t work out port forwarding. In all seriousness I’m on the cusp of getting this working, but I’m not quite there yet. I’ve set up a subnet route and advertised the ps4’s internal IP. I just don’t know what IP details to use with the remote play app. I’m behind a CGNAT which complicates things for me. This is about to learn 😅
@@francoisdangyes as I said that does exist on the current version of the Android app. There's only the option to run an exit node. The Tailscale web admin correctly shows that an exit node is available, but you can't use it from the android app currently.
@@francoisdangyes as I just said my tailnet correctly shows the exit node is running. That's why I'm posting this comment - the current version of the app is broken as it does not allow you to use an exit node even when one is set up.
This video started great for beginners but suddenly exploded to advanced users far too fast. Slow down, you totally lost the majority of folks watching after 2:45. There should be a series for beginners, intermediate and advanced.
I highly dislike that one has to use one of the providers like Google to use as a login. I prefer my own User Name and Password. I don't trust the likes of Google and similar companies. Also, please stop using "use case". The word 'case' is not necessary. The word case is enough. So you should say, 'another use is....' Same applies to 'Price Point". The word Price is enough. The word point is not necessary. The word price is enough. Why are you all adding unnecessary words to the English language?
