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Ok, I have an incoming Lenovo M93P SFF to upgrade my really old laptop as a server, so your list will be super helpful. Thanks!


Good idea…I just it a bunch for other stuff but hadn’t thought to use it for this. Thanks!


Uhm, status update: I just signed up for tailscale, and I’m able to access my home server after about 2 mins from first logging into the tailscale website. Wow…you guys weren’t kidding 🙃

So what should I do next?


So how does that work? Just using wireguard I mean.


Big thanks to everyone that replied. Message received: ditch openVPN in favour of wireguard :-)


I just came across headscale…looks kinda neat. The docs have me a bit scared though - from the Installation section: “Configure Headscale by editing the configuration file”…uhm ya I’ll just go configure all of the things to do all of the stuff, hehe.


Really, wow ok. Someone recommended that in another post, and I thought there must still be some value to doing it myself.

So does all the traffic go through tailscale? I gotta watch a YouTube video…


Advice: accessing home network beyond home
Hi folks, I'm just getting into this hobby thanks to the posts in this community. So far, I've installed Ubuntu server 22.04 on an old laptop and got paperless working, and I'm pretty pumped. Now I would like to access it outside of my home network on my phone. I have a Netgear R7000 with Advanced Tomato installed. Here's my plan, but I don't know if it would work... So I'm hoping for a peer review of sorts. - Get openVPN working on the router as a server. - make a certificate for my phone and use it as a client. - use my fedora laptop as the CA (?). I think I need to use easy-RDA to make the keys and certificates... Does that sound about right? It's this a good approach or is there something better/easier/more effective? If there's a great tutorial around for accessing the home network externally, I'd super appreciate it. Would obviously prefer to do it myself and not pay for a service... I've been enjoying the learning experience!
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Holly crap that looks amazing. I just installed Ubuntu server and got paperless working, but I think I’m gonna redo it with yunohost. Thanks for the lead!


Oh ok thanks. I do like the idea of access from anywhere… I’m guessing a VPN would be needed on the server and phone? Or is this a whole big thing?


Quick question, don’t want to highjack the thread. This looks interesting, but I don’t understand why I couldn’t just install it on my regular laptop running fedora. Why does it need it’s own server?