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?
Do folks recommend it for this use case or is there another product people would recommend?
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)
It was also very low bandwidth since it wasn’t a screen share. And all the UI is local with VS Code remote.
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.