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Alternative to VPN use Twingate: Best Way to Remote Into Your Network [step-by-step]

now what is the best way to remotely
access computers to remotely access a
lab to remotely access your work is it
VPN there's a better way vpns are
unfortunately getting a little
old-fashioned and they also don't offer
the best performance and they're not
even a secure way of doing things
anymore I have found a product that you
need to check out called twingate and
this is changing the way that you can
remote access into your home network so
I've got three main devices that I want
to be able to access from anywhere in
the most secure way possible with no VPN
no port forwarding no TeamViewer
wouldn't it be great if you could have a
secure way to actually be able to access
any of these devices and only those
devices using a specific service none of
these convoluted complicated insecure
practices are needed anymore what if
you're an admin and you've got a few
other admins but you want this admin to
only be able to access that server and
this admin to be able to only access
This Server what would happen with VPN
is you'd log in with your VPN and you
had access to the whole lot but now you
can actually direct your traffic to one
specific spot I tell you what these VPN
providers better be watching out first
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right I'm sure you agree what we're
going to do I'm going to show you on my
computer right now I'm going to log in
and I'm going to show you how cool this
is it's absolutely awesome and you're
going to be like well how have I not
heard about this and it's completely for
free so I've got three main devices that
I want to be able to access from
anywhere in the most secure way possible
I want to access my virtualization
environment running VMware I've got some
esxi hosts I want to access my CCTV I
want to see what's going on I've got
some cameras are there any criminals I
don't want to access perhaps Plex got a
Plex server out there and then I've got
my Nas my network attached storage where
I keep all of my data sometimes I want
to log in check the admin side things
maybe download some files here or there
but I don't want to expose any of this
stuff out to the internet let's log into
my computer so go into twingate.com
we're going to click on try twingate for
free and then you're going to sign in
with one of your favorite Services put
in your favorite information in here and
then how do you plan to use twingate now
for me I'm going to be doing this for a
personal hobby are you able to deploy
twingate on your own no you can't well
go and get some technical support
otherwise if you're comfortable with CLI
command line do that one so I've updated
my network name Emilio demo and there's
my URL it's going to be Emilio
demo.twingate.com and that's what you're
going to use to be able to go and access
your twingate you now need to do three
things the first is to Define your
networks you need to add some remote
networks at least one resource that you
need to be able to access then you need
to establish the connection between twin
gate and your network via this little
connector and then if you want users to
be able to access the resource you're
going to need to use the twingate client
if you think about it with VPN you have
a VPN client well this is a twin gate
client let's start by adding a remote
Network now if you've got the cloud
great you can actually connect it
directly to your AWS Azure or Google
Cloud other but we're going to be doing
on-premise we want to access our
infrastructure that we've got here in
our home lab on premise you then give it
a specific name at the network you then
need to set up one connector and of
course you need to get this set up
behind your firewall So within your
network either of these two will do the
trick
and now the deployment method how are
you going to install this connector and
if you're using Docker you can use that
if you're using any of the Azure or AWS
stuff you can do that if you've got
Linux you can do that so I've selected
Docker and I've clicked on generate some
tokens and here are my tokens right in
here I'm going to go and copy these save
these somewhere safe because you're
going to need them later on and they're
always good to reference custom Docker
command you can leave that as default
you don't have to do those unless you
really really want to you are going to
have to have Docker running of course on
your computer or on your server or on
your Nas whatever it may be we're going
to be doing this on our Nas now comes
the fun part we're going to go and
configure our connector so I'm going to
go and click on this guide up here
deployment guide and here is the steps
that you need to follow to get this
Docker thing working on one of your
systems and you can do this on the cloud
and the office etc etc we're doing this
in our home network you can do this
directly onto a Windows Server onto a
Mac server as it said onto Linux of
course running Docker in our case I do
have a Synology now so I'm going to be
doing this directly onto my Nas which is
awesome a bit of a guide here I run how
to get it running on your Nas but we're
going to show you how to do it anyway
all right we're now going to log into
our as here we go if you don't already
have Docker installed you can go and do
this and again remember this is just a
step on our Nas but you can do this on
any Linux box on a Windows box as long
as you've got it running we're gonna go
into our package Center over here and
we're going to actually search for
Docker because I don't have it running
right now and there it is install gonna
follow the Simple Guide to get it
installed onto my volume you can open it
right in there you can also go into your
little package Center and there it is
let's open it up Docker now the first
thing we've got to do is we're going to
get the docker thing sort of connected
to the twin gate stuff right so we need
to go into the registry area here we're
going to type in Twin G or twin gate and
there it is there's our twingate slash
connector we're going to double click on
that one to actually download it making
sure that it's the latest one we just
wait a little bit for it to download and
then we're going to go and configure it
and now we just double click on it and
to make it a little bit easier so that
you keep track of what's going on over
here we've got this thing called
watchful beagle that is the name of my
container so I'm just going to actually
name it the same sort of thing so that I
can sort of keep track of those two and
it sort of makes a little bit more sense
later on when I forget which I probably
will
all right and then we'll click on
advanced settings we're going to tick on
enable auto restart because we do want
the thing to automatically restart
should it run into any problems you just
want to make sure that that is ticked
and then we select on environment now in
here we want to add three different
sorts of variables three variables and
then we're going to paste in some of
those values that uh we'll show you
first one tenant URL and this is the
full URL of your twingate so if you
remember we had your name the one that
we set up at the very
start.twinggate.com and we throw that
right into there the next variable now
is our access token so we're going to go
twingate access token and now we come
into here and we're going to go and use
that token over here that we copied
before and now our refresh token that
should be it we should be able to now
click on apply
looking all good
next
make sure you want to run this command
and we click on done here's our
container running now if all things have
worked correctly we should be able to
now go back into here and look at that
our watchful beagle is now connected the
container is now working and there's a
connection between our twin gate and
between our Nas using those really
really long and complicated keys and now
the fun begins we're now going to go and
configure our twin gate to start talking
to some of your devices in your network
and here's what's great apart from just
connecting to your Nas you can use
Twinkie to even access your Raspberry Pi
you can set up a second connector option
to connect directly to your Raspberry Pi
do you have a Windows VM do you have a
Windows Server we're going to show you
how to do that but you can also connect
it to that connect it to a Linux box you
can access all of this stuff remotely
using twingate and not VPN so let's just
go back to my home lab over here and now
I start adding in my resources now if
you do have DNS setup and DNS is working
well in your network you can throw in
the DNS right into there but if you want
to do it without IP you can also do it
with IP now because I know the IP
addresses of the devices I'm going to
use IP and that should be fine so I'm
going to give it a specific label now
what I want to do is I want to be able
to access one of my VMware esxi hosts I
have several so this is one of them
throw in my IP address and we'll just
make my Alias the same now protocols
look at this this is awesome you could
allow or restrict specific access you
want to allow all TCP all UDP all icmp
up to you you can allow them or restrict
them or block them all together and of
course by allowing all traffic you're
allowing essentially every single port
so you may want to do that or you can
get very very restricted click on ADD
resource now this part is awesome if you
have a pool of people and you want to be
able to restrict specific access to
specific resources you can go and create
a different pool of users and then allow
just the users that you want access to
that specific resource but for me I'm
going to say everyone good to go I'm
going to add it right there and now
we're going to add our Plex Media Server
I mean I love movies TV shows and when I
go on a holiday on a trip somewhere I
record a lot of stuff and I throw that
all into my Plex and you can add your
Plex server right in here same deal I'm
going to go in here Plex same deal give
it the same Plex Alias and we leave
everything else as default giving access
to that specific user and we add it
right in there now because Plex is
running on my Nas I've actually now
allowed access to my Nas as well my Nas
and my Plex and I can control it all and
then the last thing that we'll add is a
Windows server that I've got that is
controlling my CCTV my cameras around my
house I know exactly what is going on
and when I'm away I can log in and make
sure that there's no criminals breaking
in we're going to call this CCTV and I'm
giving this one an IP address of 32 done
done everything else will remain as is
but remember you can get very specific
around those ports if you need to so our
esxi host running VMware I only want it
to be accessible via a web browser and
perhaps over SSH so I'm going to go into
here I'm going to go and edit it and
under my protocols I'm going to actually
restrict and then I can actually allow a
specific ports and specific ports only
so I'm going to say I'm going to allow
Port 80 I'm going to allow Port 443 and
I'm going to allow Port 22. so any other
application on a different port is just
not going to work and now with it all
ready to go you grab your phone you can
open up your phone install the twingate
app you take your laptop with you
wherever you go you connect to a public
Wi-Fi search for an application twingate
we're going to go and grab that there it
is continue now we throw in our URL we
already know that URL we used it before
so it does need to do some changes here
to our VPN config so we're going to
allow for that and now we're going to
sign in so now you can literally go into
a web browser and it's almost like
you're on a VPN but it's not a VPN let's
now throw an IP address in here
look at that
now I know that my Plex server is
running on a different port so I can
just throw in that port at the end of
this URL
there you have it now I am on the Wi-Fi
so why don't we actually go and turn
that off now I'm on my 5G connection
let's go and try to access my server why
don't we try now to RDP that's RDP into
our CCTV server
of course you can go and download the
RDP app the remote desktop application
app from the app store go create a new
one
let's save that let's try connect
there you have it and then last one is
our esxi host we want to be able to
access our VMware esxi host now there is
an easy way to do this as well if I go
into my twin gate area there are other
devices that I've got listed there is my
esxi host I can click on that and I can
say copy original address let's go and
open up a web browser and paste it in
and look at that straight away didn't
even take very long at all visit website
foreign
EST way to securely access your
resources on your home network without
opening up ports without relying on a
VPN Gateway or exposing your network out
to the Internet so remember to visit the
link below in the video description to
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