Hello everyone,
I want to create a Tailscale account to access my Jellyfin server from outside my home, but I’m already stuck at the first step: to create an account, you need either a GAFAM account or OIDC. I don’t have any personal accounts with GAFAM because of Lemmy’s bad influence. My emails are on Tuta. I don’t want to overcomplicate things as I’m a noob, but after spending 30 minutes researching OIDC, I still don’t know where to start… I don’t work in IT (at all).
Is it better to just give up and create a throwaway account with a GAFAM platform, or is there a simple way to do this with OIDC? If so, can anyone point me the way? Is there a free reliable OIDC provider? Will that make things complicated afterward with tail scale?
For more context: I turned my old gaming PC into a media center running Fedora and a Jellyfin server that I access locally. I was surprised by how relatively simple it all was, especially getting Jellyfin to work locally.
Obviously, I wanted to use Tailscale to connect to Jellyfin remotely, but I never had time to look into it. I was told this morning that I’m going to undergo major surgery with a significant recovery period ahead, so suddenly this has become urgent…
If Tailscale doesn’t suit you, maybe try one of the alternatives. There’s Pangolin or plain old Wireguard tunnels. I have no clue if authentication is better with Pangolin, though.
They all seem self hosted and I am not yet to the point where I feel at ease with that as it seems to be “exposed” (I don’t really know what it means to be honest). I do intend to get into this kind of stuff later though.
wireguard is self hosted and you do have to “expose” one UDP port. From the outside it’s difficult to detect that this “opening” exists because wireguard just listens and ignores everything unless you send the encrypted credentials. Compared to hosting a webpage or jellyfin directly this is much more secure. As long as you keep wireguard relatively up to date you don’t really have to worry much about it.
I personally use wg-easy. It’s designed to be deployed into docker (using docker compose is by far the easiest).
Then you can either use your IP address, or ideally a dynamic DNS provider so you’d connect to myexample.com:51820. Duckdns is free, otherwise options are available like cloudflare. If you can get jellyfin working, this should be relatively straightforward.
Sure, sorry, you’re in the selfhosted community, so I sent some self hosted options 😆 If you own one of the internet/wifi routers with Wireguard built in (FritzBox, MikroTik, etc…) that might be an option as well. Other than that, I never tried any of the more commercial options, so I don’t know much about it.