Hey guys,
I have a mini computer at home that I want to be able to access remotely (e.g. from outside my home network). I have a subscription to Express VPN.
I was wondering what’s the most common way to do so and if I can somehow leverage my VPN subscription to be able to do so.
What do you need to access the computer for? If you can give us some details on what you want to do, then we can advise on a suitable approach
Also your express vpn subscription is irrelevant in regards to remotely accessing your home network. When you purchase a vpn subscription you are typically tunnelling your internet traffic through their vpn servers making it seem like all internet web requests are coming from them obscuring your activity
What you are suggesting is to host a vpn server in your home network and connect to it so can access to the devices on home network your vpn server is based on
One of the easiest options is use Zerotier or Tailscale VPN’s that are way easier than a typical VPN. That gives you remote access to your home network which allows RDP access or access to home network shares etc. If you want to use the computer you can use like Rustdesk, RDP, VNC etc
A VPN is a connection to a remote server…your Express VPN is to their servers. You would need to set up your own VPN server to connect to.
I want to be able to use my personal home computer remotely to do work (I’m a software engineer) from abroad using my work laptop. I will mostly be using SSH or set up a remote dev environment.
Thanks for clarifying the Express VPN stuff.
Do you have any resources how to set up my own VPN service?
I will look into those options, thank you!