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[โ€“] Evkob@lemmy.ca 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I believe they mean setting up a VPN on your network, rather than buying a service from a VPN provider.

Something like Wireguard lets you configure individual devices to access your network remotely.

Yup, I did that last week and it's pretty easy. Basically:

  1. Set up a VPS and configure wireguard
  2. Set up your computer to connect to it (or your router if you literally only want remote admin); you'll probably want to configure persistent connections
  3. Set up your phone to connect to it
  4. Test it at work sometime to make sure it all works

I do it in two hops: connect to VPS then to internal computer. There are other configurations (e.g. talk to peer computers directly), but this works well for me.