ztncui VS tailscale

> they actively went after third party coordination servers, wherenas I hear headscale mentioned by tailscale employees all the time.

ZeroTier founder here. We never did anything remotely like that, so I'm curious about where you heard that.

We did adjust our licensing to counter people attempting to take the product, slap their own name on it, and monetize it without supporting us, but we are strongly considering going back to a more liberal license in the near future. In any case we didn't "go after" anyone, just limited commercial closed source use in a manner not unlike the AGPL. We never filed any kind of lawsuits about this or anything.

We also regularly promote third party open source products like this:

https://github.com/key-networks/ztncui

We've never had an issue with non-commercial or FOSS usage.

If you have a VPN somewhere, you could also try Nebula (https://www.defined.net/nebula/) or self-host the management server for Tailscale (https://github.com/juanfont/headscale) or zerotier (https://github.com/key-networks/ztncui).

Disadvantages: Limited to 50 hosts (you can host your own ZeroTier Controller using Ztncui for unlimited hosts: https://github.com/key-networks/ztncui)

You can self host a controller of adding/removing devices and all ( https://github.com/key-networks/ztncui ), but it has an upstream connection to their managed services, it’s how the apps and all keep working.

There are a couple of Options out there that make controlling the controller easier, either through WEB Guis: https://github.com/key-networks/ztncui https://github.com/dec0dOS/zero-ui

Every zerotier node ships with the CLI network controller, but someone wrote a simple GUI for it and that is on docker.

https://github.com/key-networks/ztncui

ZeroUI implements controller-specific workarounds that address some existing [issues](https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/issues/859). ZTNCUI [does not](https://github.com/key-networks/ztncui/issues/63).

You can host your own authorization server. https://github.com/key-networks/ztncui

Tailscale

I'm using the GitHub version of tailscaled on one of my Macs as a background daemon launched at boot. To upgrade to the latest version, try the following:

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. It enables encrypted point-to-point connections using the open source WireGuard® protocol, which means only devices on your private network can communicate with each other.

Might be possible to do using a VPN as long as you can get broadcast/multicast packets forwarded.

Tailscale unfortunately doesn't support it...yet?

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1013

Tailscale - Make depaware output patch compatible

Tailscale is another way of doing it. I'm using it to access my Pi's Samba shares from my phone but it works from Windows as well.