Thanks for your short to the point guide. I was failing with other tutorials, but I'm now up and running within a few minutes after following yours. I'd like to add I did have to set up an advertised subnet to be able to access my local files. Example: sudo tailscale up --advertise-routes=192.168.1.0/24
Do you have a video on the firewall settings? I was attempting this on pi but every time i attempted to enable ufw with the settings it called for, id lose internet access on my phone which i set up tailscale on. Note: indidnt not yet setup the Pi as an exit node yet in this scenario as i wanted to make sure that i had my firewall settings squared away cause i didn't want to leave a hole into my network. If i followed through and set it as the exit node, would i be able to connect to the internet again as normal? I would think that not using vpn would still allow me access to the internet since i wasnt connected to the PI or vpn but this was not the case
You would have to set it as an exit node to access internet through he pi. You don't need to open ports on the firewall for Tailscale to work, that is it's advantage over other solutions.
failed to connect to local tailscaled (which appears to be running as tailscaled, pid 482). Got error: Failed to connect to local Tailscale daemon for /localapi/v0/status; not running? Error: dial unix /var/run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock: connect: no such file or directory got this errr try run it on a vps
I've never seen that happen in a full VM but I think it happens a lot in containers like LKC containers. Maybe try again in a fresh Ubuntu vm fully updated?
what if someone as admin added your machine how do you exit. on my ubuntu I cannot see this pop-up window. so I do not know whether the VPN is working pernmantly on my machine or not
I'm not getting any internet access when connecting to my exit node(which is just an Ubuntu server that's connected to a different router). What could be the issue here?
If you rand the ip forwarding command and allowed the edit route settings like I did at the 4:10 mark int he video the first thing that comes to mind is maybe it is UFW firewall settings if you enabled them. I didn't have that enabled in the video. In the Tailscale documentation there is a page about this tailscale.com/kb/1077/secure-server-ubuntu-18-04 They say to use this rule: sudo ufw allow in on tailscale0 This may be a topic for a follow up video.
Some very mixed success with this.. living in Germany. I set up an Azure Ubuntu VM sitting in Hong Kong, followed al the steps given above for getting things running in Linux (before viewing this video). The VM in Hong Kong was set as exit node - yes, I know it's a LITTLE silly setting up a VM thousands of miles away, but I stress that this was for testing. I could log into Netflix OK from my machine in Germany and saw references to Asian TV shows, but the second I went to watch any of them got the warning that was using a VPN and thus would not let me watch anything. It may be Azure thing?
For the purpose of Netflix (all I really care about), I was able to take advantage of Tailscale (on an Azure VM abroad) but it involves a bit of switching the service off and on and back on again, before you can watch a stream. I was able to verify that I able to watch shows in a foreign land by comparing the catalogue against the local one.
You did everything correct, the problem is Netflix's agressive labeling of servers as VPN. I have seen the same issue. Netflix is very aggressive at identifying commercial VPNs and frequently causes issues at hosting providers. I had the same happen on Digital Ocean before but the one time I tried at Linode it worked. I never used Azure to try so I don't have experience there. I may be that if you are on a different server it wouldn't not flag it as a commercial VPN. I don't know what is your best option other to try a VM in a differnt location or service. Danke
@@hendersontech kein Thema! Thanks for writing back. I'll test things out with Linode. I already have a NorVdPN account for watching foreign shows but it only ever does it job when I use "Brave" as my browser. Command line stuff like this is a project for me.
@@hendersontech its normal because all azure ips are business ip adresses and vpn are also generally business adresses if you want a truly undetectable vpn its gotta be a residential ip
Think of it like a privacy VPN that tunnels all you traffic from your device to the exit node where it "exits" onto the public internet. Say if you are a hotel and you want your internet to appear as if you are at home you would connect to the exit node in your house and all your traffic would tunnel from he hotel to your exit node and then out onto the public internet.
Thanks for your short to the point guide. I was failing with other tutorials, but I'm now up and running within a few minutes after following yours.
I'd like to add I did have to set up an advertised subnet to be able to access my local files.
Example: sudo tailscale up --advertise-routes=192.168.1.0/24
I am glad it helped you out. Keeping my videos shorter hurts my views on RUclips but I just prefer getting to the point.
Thanks. I just forgot to make it --advertise-exit-node ❤ now my vps works as vpn. This is a modern vpn. So easy. 🎉🎉
Great 👍
2:00 Ctrl-click should do the trick in windows Terminal next time :-)
Do you have a video on the firewall settings? I was attempting this on pi but every time i attempted to enable ufw with the settings it called for, id lose internet access on my phone which i set up tailscale on.
Note: indidnt not yet setup the Pi as an exit node yet in this scenario as i wanted to make sure that i had my firewall settings squared away cause i didn't want to leave a hole into my network. If i followed through and set it as the exit node, would i be able to connect to the internet again as normal?
I would think that not using vpn would still allow me access to the internet since i wasnt connected to the PI or vpn but this was not the case
You would have to set it as an exit node to access internet through he pi. You don't need to open ports on the firewall for Tailscale to work, that is it's advantage over other solutions.
failed to connect to local tailscaled (which appears to be running as tailscaled, pid 482). Got error: Failed to connect to local Tailscale daemon for /localapi/v0/status; not running? Error: dial unix /var/run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock: connect: no such file or directory got this errr try run it on a vps
I've never seen that happen in a full VM but I think it happens a lot in containers like LKC containers. Maybe try again in a fresh Ubuntu vm fully updated?
it a web server can give you the pass word if you like look at it @@hendersontech
what if someone as admin added your machine how do you exit. on my ubuntu I cannot see this pop-up window. so I do not know whether the VPN is working pernmantly on my machine or not
You would have to go in the command line and unauthorize it. I'd recommend uninstalling it if not needed.
I'm not getting any internet access when connecting to my exit node(which is just an Ubuntu server that's connected to a different router). What could be the issue here?
If you rand the ip forwarding command and allowed the edit route settings like I did at the 4:10 mark int he video the first thing that comes to mind is maybe it is UFW firewall settings if you enabled them. I didn't have that enabled in the video. In the Tailscale documentation there is a page about this
tailscale.com/kb/1077/secure-server-ubuntu-18-04
They say to use this rule:
sudo ufw allow in on tailscale0
This may be a topic for a follow up video.
Some very mixed success with this.. living in Germany. I set up an Azure Ubuntu VM sitting in Hong Kong, followed al the steps given above for getting things running in Linux (before viewing this video). The VM in Hong Kong was set as exit node - yes, I know it's a LITTLE silly setting up a VM thousands of miles away, but I stress that this was for testing. I could log into Netflix OK from my machine in Germany and saw references to Asian TV shows, but the second I went to watch any of them got the warning that was using a VPN and thus would not let me watch anything. It may be Azure thing?
For the purpose of Netflix (all I really care about), I was able to take advantage of Tailscale (on an Azure VM abroad) but it involves a bit of switching the service off and on and back on again, before you can watch a stream. I was able to verify that I able to watch shows in a foreign land by comparing the catalogue against the local one.
You did everything correct, the problem is Netflix's agressive labeling of servers as VPN. I have seen the same issue. Netflix is very aggressive at identifying commercial VPNs and frequently causes issues at hosting providers. I had the same happen on Digital Ocean before but the one time I tried at Linode it worked. I never used Azure to try so I don't have experience there. I may be that if you are on a different server it wouldn't not flag it as a commercial VPN. I don't know what is your best option other to try a VM in a differnt location or service. Danke
@@hendersontech kein Thema! Thanks for writing back. I'll test things out with Linode. I already have a NorVdPN account for watching foreign shows but it only ever does it job when I use "Brave" as my browser. Command line stuff like this is a project for me.
@@hendersontech its normal because all azure ips are business ip adresses and vpn are also generally business adresses if you want a truly undetectable vpn its gotta be a residential ip
@@almaka17 I agree. The tail scale exit node only will do what you are trying to do well from a home, not a commercial VM host.
What is exit node?
Think of it like a privacy VPN that tunnels all you traffic from your device to the exit node where it "exits" onto the public internet. Say if you are a hotel and you want your internet to appear as if you are at home you would connect to the exit node in your house and all your traffic would tunnel from he hotel to your exit node and then out onto the public internet.
@ I enabled it, tailscale is awesome I am using this on VPS and my router and now can do RDP from anywhere from any ISP
thanks you are awesome
Glad you liked it