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by skrebbel 1154 days ago
> Entire site-to-site tunneling/routing. I didn't have to do anything for my parents I just dropped a subnet router at their place.

Can you elaborate? What do your parents need tailscale for? I mean my parents have internet purely by the telco dropping a router at their place and it just works, what is my family missing?
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brewdad 1154 days ago
Best guess is OP is hosting files or services that are shared with less tech-savvy parents. Similar to our setup. My son is away at college but still wants access to his music and movie collection on our NAS at home along with some other services. He setup a Tailscale connection and everyone is happy. I don't have to manage any of it and he doesn't have to work around the school's firewall and network architecture.
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modernpacifist 1154 days ago
Mostly standard VPN use cases. They can access my Plex server, Mealie instance and in turn I can remote access their devices without something like TeamViewer when they need IT Support or their home automation stuff is acting up.

Would their lives fall apart without it? No. But it makes my life as the family SRE much easier.

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sleepybrett 1154 days ago
This is no longer a problem for me since I switched my parents from windows to mac, but remote desktop login to troubleshoot their problems would be a huge bonus.

Other cool things I could do if I dropped a raspberry-pi w/ tailscale onto their network:

- Need another public IP to test something? Route my laptop through their network for awhile.

- share files with them or backup some of their devices to a fileserver I control.

- send print jobs to their printer, I don't keep a printer but they do because.. and I shit you not, they hate doing crosswords on their ipads, they print the damn things out every morning and work them on paper.

- Put it on their phones and have them route their requests through one of my exit nodes.

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marsokod 1154 days ago
In my case that's actually multiple functions: remote login without using TeamViewer and also for general remote support, and I have a small backup server at the place for my off-site backups.
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