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Advice: accessing home network beyond home (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Drudge@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[-] Drudge@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Drudge@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

[-] Bread@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Nas, Media server, device auto backups to nas, game server, chatgpt instance, Lemmy instance, a website, wiki, nextcloud, pihole, or home assistant.

If you intend to collect/store data or make more servers, a nas would probably be a good idea to have.

[-] Drudge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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!

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