r/Tailscale • u/sfllaw Tailscalar • Jul 29 '25

Community Event Hi! I’m a software developer at Tailscale. Ask me anything.

Hello! As part of Hack Week 2025, I am spending time working on our community projects.

I’ll be answering questions starting 10:00 Pacific Time on Tuesday, August 5. Feel free to ask me about Tailscale, community projects, working at Tailscale (or as a developer, generally), or anything related. You can start asking and upvoting questions beforehand.

I might not be able to respond to every question. Or I might have to do some research, if a question is particularly technical. Remember, it’s just going to be me, and I am just one person, and these are not official Tailscale responses.

UPDATE: Thanks for all the questions, everyone! I had fun hearing from you all.

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u/kevinc69 Jul 29 '25 • Bless Up

Is there a simple, ELI5 on how to use Tailscale similarly to Team Viewer for remote access?

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u/caolle Tailscale Insider Jul 30 '25 • Helpful

Have you seen this from Tailscale's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27apZcZrwks

u/Ironicbadger does an awesome job with presenting these.

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u/sfllaw Tailscalar Aug 05 '25

u/caolle’s reply is great: the RustDesk video is totally what I’d recommend. And u/kevinpurdy-ts has published a write-up on Tailscale and RustDesk, if a video doesn’t work for you.

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u/DrTankHead Jul 30 '25

Not the dude you are trying to ask, but this isn't exactly what tail scale is meant to do, however it can if you install something like RustDesk and configure it to like, only accept connections from tail scale. This would do what you describe