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Setting up WireGuard for my mom remotely so she can access my homelab and tunnel traffic. Looking for tips to make this as seamless as possible! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by versionc@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm going to set up a WireGuard server on my router. I want my mom to be able to use it but she lives very far away so setup will need to be done remotely. What's the best way to go about this? I need to share the WG config somehow.

She's not great at computers either, so any tips on how to easily install and set things up on her computer would be appreciated.

I've been trying to avoid Tailscale or Netbird, but maybe that would be the best solution in the end. I'm not interested in self-hosting a relay or management service though, I feel like I'm way too inexperienced to secure such an important system. Should anyone compromise the VPS, both me and my mom's devices would also be compromised (I assume).

Thanks!

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[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nobody mentioned this but route only the necessary traffic to your router (all your self-hosted services) with wireguard's split tunneling (just set the apropriate allowed_ip networks in your wg config).

You could set it to 0.0.0.0/0 and send all her traffic through your router but this could potientially choke your own network and make her own speed slow down.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 1 week ago

I just realised that I could totally do that by reading your comment. I've always used 0.0.0.0/0 because my router sets that as its default when creating Wireguard configs, but it makes so much sense to just route the connections for my homelab.

Thanks!!!