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What us the best way to add remote access to my servers? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi,

I an currently trying to add remote access to 2 of my servers but didn't manage to get a working setup as is.

Right now I want to access 2 servers:

  • one is for media stuff (navidrome, jellyfin, managing the arr stack)
  • one is for my data syncing with rsync and after set a backup from borg to another server not on my domain

I was trying at some point to add stuff such as tailscale, but somehow I always had issues with having both servers reachable within the IP range I use on my local network, so everything would work as is with the current config at home being away. I have also heard of cloudflare tunnels as well, but that I didn't try yet. At some point I tried to do just a regular wireguard from my opnsense, but I would prefer not to have open ports to worry about (and also had issues with internal IP not being assigned from wireguard as well).

Does anyone here has experience with this? If so, what was your solution and/or caviats to it?

EDIT: I got some very good responses but I think I failed to understand that what I would need is probably a hop in server of sorts for the VPN. Meaning:

  • I login to the hop server
  • I get an internal IP for my network, meaning, 192.168.1.xxx
  • I do whatever I need to do
  • log out

Does anyone has experience with such solution? My point would be able to have full access to everything on the network without having to do a VPN on every machine i need access to (although it can create a massive single point of failure/risk)

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[–] h_ramus@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm behind CGNAT. My OpenWrt router is a Netbird server that can be connected externally. Having the Netbird server in the router allows me to ssh devices or use services as if I was connected via WiFi.

There's documentation for Opnsense as well -(https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/netbird.html)

[–] ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I will check if this can work for me, but sounds like it is the kind of solution I am looking for

[–] h_ramus@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

After everything is setup, create a network route to distribute an ip to machines connected to you lan. I can't recall exactly but setting up Netbird was pretty straightforward when following the documentation. They also have their own for Opnsense - (https://docs.netbird.io/get-started/install/opnsense)

Managed Networks documentation