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 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] randomguy2323@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Use chat gpt to help you install it , I used it sometimes and it help me to understand it a lot.

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

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

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