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Tailscale is a zero confit VPN for building secure networks that is compatible with multiple devices and OSes. https://tailscale.com/

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Understanding packet routing when using Wireguard/Tailscale and the BitTorrent Protocol

I have a local machine on a VPN network with private IP A , and a VPS with private IP B which acts as an exit node, i.e. all traffic in the local machine is supposedly being routed from the local ...
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Tailscale subnet routing doesn't work on-site

I've got a Tailscale subnet router to 10.0.0.0/8 set up and when accessing from a Windows laptop remotely, it works great and I can access these private machines using their addresses. The problem ...
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Using Tailscale to route traffic from a proxy VPS to my homelab results in incredibly slow speeds

I have a VPS that I am using as a reverse proxy to forward traffic to my personal server at home. The two servers are connected by Tailscale, and the VPS is running Nginx, which takes some subdomains, ...
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How to copy a file from my WSL directory to a machine I can only SSH to from windows

I have a server that I would like to copy some files to, but I can only access that server via tailscale and only my Windows machine address is registered with that VPN, not my WSL distribution on the ...
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Do I need to enable Remote Desktop Connection for it to work over Tailscale?

I've enabled Remote Desktop Access and it works fine on my local network. I want to be able to use it via Tailscale as well but it doesn't connect, using either the DNS name, IPv4 address or IPv6 ...
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Firefox not working with my own DNS server, but everything else does

I've recently setup a CoreDNS server on my "local" tailscale VPN network. Chrome, dig, nslookup, and everything else works with the correct DNS server being queried (I've double checked ...
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Can't connect to Nextcloud from GNOME Online Accounts or Nautilus

I'm trying to add my Nextcloud account to GNOME to be able to mount it. However, it never works. Seems like it has an issue when connecting to internal or private IP's, and not public ones. I am using ...
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Binding Samba to Tailscale interface fails, but works for physical NIC

I installed Tailscale client v1.34.0 and Samba v4.15.9 on Ubuntu 22.04.1 with the intention to improve security for a Samba share by limiting access to my tailnet. To that effect, I configured Samba ...
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Tailscale- Connection issues to access shared folders on my linux server

I installed Tailscale on my Linux Ubuntu server 20.04 some time ago. I also set a Route on it to access other devices in my LAN. Everything seems to work properly and I can access a few services ...
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How to map a network drive that is mapped to a PC running Tailscale?

I’ve installed Tailscale and I’ve been able to connect to my work PC from my home PC with RDP. I was also able to map the remote PC's local drives as "Network Locations". How can I also map ...
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Does Tailscale log the IPs of devices which are connected on your account?

I know a lot of VPNs say they don’t log IPs, but then have other situations internally. I’m not even sure entirely how Tailscale works on the server-side, does one device connect to Tailscale servers ...
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