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How do you use ZeroTier? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/zerotier

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I'm just curious how other folks use this tool, and whether there are other clever application cases I haven't thought of yet.

I'm using it exactly how I assume it was intended - my company is completely virtual now and has no central office. I'm running a few AWS instances that I can now make available internally over the ZT mesh, without exposing them to the public internet. Still in the setup and service migration process (most of our staff still lack the client app), but I'm far enough along to commit. I believe this mesh design should even allow me to run samba shares over the mesh, instead of WebDAV shares accessible over the public internet. Should be way better!

What's your use case?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hey! Sorry for the super late reply, I missed your posts; thanks for participating!

I use ZeroTier both for personal and professional purposes.

Personally, it allows me access various home servers whether I'm home or not. I've also used it in the past to get remote access to my father's Linux computer to help him out with some technical issues from the command line. My home setup is pretty "traditional" with the individual devices all having ZeroTier installed on them.

Professionally, it's become the back end for our remote work. We have ZeroTier routers that provide access to the company's existing LAN network resources to employee machines. It's been working really well for that aside from the occasional blip (seemingly relating to misbehaving networking hardware -- e.g., bad hotel/airline/AirBnB WiFi).

I love the flexibility of the system and I'm very excited for ZeroTier 2.0 (hopefully soon).