 Tom here from Lauren systems and we're going to talk about zero tier global area networking If you want to learn more about me and my company however Lauren systems calm if you'd like to hire short project There's a hires button up at the top if you like to support the channel other ways There's some affiliate links down below for products and services that we talk about they get you some deals and discounts while helping out the channel It's months appreciated Zero tier now I'm not going to go in-depth on this because I'll link to a video where I did go in-depth on zero tier and talk About how it works how it's a very unique product at a pretty amazing product as well I'm a big fan of it. It certainly solves a solution now This is not the same as a VPN zero tier does allow encrypted communication between two different clients Via their global area networking system. They have set up its private and secure It is all open source. It is a essentially a form of an SD Wan solution It does not require that you know a lot about firewalls or anything to set this up because this can be set up independently on each Host and it's a great solution if you're looking for an easy way to get remote access to things now I've done videos on lots of different scenarios. I'll leave links to them like from the how to get started with zero tier How to build the network interfaces on how to do things like Connect other Linux boxes with it We're gonna go windows to windows here because a lot of people are looking for easy ways to have it and their Work computer and I'm gonna show you how to configure that and how to have it on their Home computer now less than ideal situation here. I am going to be doing this as a demo on my gaming system at home Whenever you're doing remote access from home to get to work. This is not necessarily best recommended practices I just don't have any other windows computers at home to do this demo on except for my one I play games on see only time I really use windows. So Let's get started here. So we have Zero tier central. I've got this demo network created called you to demo network And I cover all the details of how to do it. You want to leave it as private I'll go ahead and let it pick an address because we're not using too many addresses here But there's a lot of options here if you want to do anything advanced and do routing The idea though is we're gonna take my home computer, which is already on here And it's this one right here. This is the home computer I've authorized it to be on there and it has this IP address and it's showing online. So let me move this out of the way Drag my home computer on there. So as you can see, this is my home computer And I'm using our remote control tool the commercial one We use here at my office to connect to my home gaming computer and you can see my home gaming computer has this IP address because we loaded the zero-tier software and Join it right here. Don't worry. I'm gonna show you how to load the software and join it I get this back out of way. This is screen connect or connect wise control and this is Tom's steam box It's the computer I have at home. This is a demo computer here at my office that I've set up just for this purpose This is a Windows running Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Pro Provided it's all set up properly and licensed can have remote desktop turned on so you go into remote desktop here whoops Go quick search until allow remote connections to this computer show settings Remote allow and normal the defaults if you've just configured how the box is don't allow We want to make sure it says allow remote connections to this computer select users If you have multiple users that are about by default your user that you log in with is selected So I'll make sure that's turned on now as of right now I've already downloaded into the downloads folder of zero tier and we will show the IP address of this IP And this is set up as 10 dot 2 dot 15 on my internal network here in my lab that I've set this up in as a demo So my goal is I have to work from home And I want to get back to my Windows computer at work and I don't have any options for VPN VPNs to me are an ideal thing to do but not always feasible for some people So we're gonna load zero tier on my work computer already got it configured the same process is on both sides How we configure it. I just didn't feel like showing you twice Keep the video a little bit shorter. You'd go to zero tier get the free download They give you for free a license up to a hundred networks. They have details on all their pricing right here Zero tiers open source and free to use for most purposes including personal use internal use with a business or academic institution evaluation Uses that require more commercial licensing. They have everything broke down here. Their pricing is really inexpensive as well Like a dollar a month for one to a hundred or some of them So I won't go dwell on this much, but they do have all of those options on there And it's a very affordable service back to launch zero tier one service So we're gonna go ahead and launch it and configure this say yes Want to make sure this gets configured and all right now at the bottom here. We have zero tier, but it's not joined anywhere It's just on here. We have a node ID, but we have not joined anything as far as a network And that's what we need to do is join this network network. We're gonna join is this one here Up to the top here There's our network ID pretty straightforward where you take this and we're gonna do a copy So we wanted to join to this network day the same process. I already did for this one right here Over and join now what this did Because anyone can see this network obviously I'm just saying yes to the window behind me what this did was I'm going to watch this Show up and now we have this one which we named home computer and now we're going to authorize this on a network So by the way, yes, I'll leave this available And if anyone and I've seen people do this When I've done these demos before anyone with that ID that I have showing publicly on the screen one at the top here They would be able to join the network, but it doesn't allow them in because we have it set to private So now we're gonna authorize it by just checking a box and call this work computer And I should spell computer right work O-M-P-U-T-E-R here we go And now it's authorized and online and it's this ID right here is public This is the difference between a public or private when you have a set to private only people with the ID Can join as long as you also check the box inside here But with public anyone with the ID you don't have to authorize them They can start joining your network and this would be a big security problem possibly for you So something to keep in mind is that So here we go. We're gonna set to private We've got it authorized and it's just checking this little box here and that puts it online So we did the IP config and we seen this is the IP address of it So now we can do IP config again and now we have two IP addresses So 10.14717194 has been assigned to this computer and it's the same thing we see here So here's where it's been assigned. Here's what's this IP address here. So now they're both Connected via zero tier. So they have their other IP addresses and then they have their zero tier network adapter IP addresses And now we can get them to talk to each other So what we want to do is from this computer the 10.147 1716 which is the one my gaming computer home We want to open up remote desktop to get connected to this IP address right here. So we're gonna go Bring this one back over And we're gonna open up remote desktop protocol And I forgot to copy the zero. There we go. So now we're connecting 10.147 17194 is what we want to connect to And we're gonna go ahead and show some options here because we got to put a username Okay, so we throw in the username We'll hit connect Prompt me for the password Say yes, it's just saying there's no sign certificate. So we want to make sure it does there So now I'm remote it into my computer there But now there we go as simple as that I opened up no firewall rules I now have remote desktop control over my computer at work Well the demo lab that we set up now just so you know This is what the screen turned into here You can't see it anymore because it blanks it out It's not a multi-user system where it allows multiple people to log in and share the desktop But now I have remote desktop access now You can actually repeat this and load zero tier and build out your network on this Zero tier for the three tiers a great way to get this started. You don't have to have any firewall knowledge I did not make any special settings in the firewall to make all this work If you are though on a corporate network and it has very strict policy and filtering restrictions You may have problems, but for most general networks This works perfectly fine. And like I said, I'm using PF sense actually on both ends But I've done nothing to allow zero tier matter of fact This lab computer that I'm remote it into is what they refer to as Actually, it's gonna be triple-natted because of it's behind one side of a lab and another side of a lab and it's running a virtual box So even though it's got multiple NAT layers in between you're able to see i'm completely able to use this computer remotely through remote desktop protocol And no problems didn't have to open up any firewall rules didn't have to make any strange changes And the free tier will work and they give you quite a bit on the free tier If you need to learn more about how zero tier works, I'll leave links in my videos I did previously on it. Like I said, it's a strong solid product for Using it in a lot of different ways, but zero tier works on a lot of different devices including your phone including Just a whole list of different things because it supports linux, bsd And lots of different tools so you can expand out and build out a private network like this with zero tier So i'll be doing some future videos on it as well I know a lot of people right here in march of 2020 There's a high demand on remote access and ways to configure it and ways to get up and running fast Zero tiers of solution i'm going to suggest that's a really solid one to get going with all right, and thanks And thank you for making it to the end of the video If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up If you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon If you like youtube to notify you when new videos come out If you'd like to hire us head over to laurancesystems.com fill out our contact page And let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums.laurancesystems.com Or we can carry on the discussion about this video other videos or other tech topics in general Even suggestions for new videos. 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