Five smart ways to share Tailscale with friends and family

Tailscale offers a variety of ways to help users share resources with friends and family through its free plan, which can simplify their digital lives by reducing reliance on cloud services. With Tailscale, users can easily share files using Taildrop, set up persistent WebDAV folders with Taildrive, or even act as a VPN provider by configuring an exit node, such as an Apple TV, to provide privacy and security. Additionally, users can enable remote access to printers and other network devices by setting up a subnet router and sharing it with others on their Tailnet, though this requires a trust exercise due to potential logging. Tailscale also allows for the creation of simple file servers and the sharing of self-hosted web apps by using Docker and Tailscale Serve, which can enable friends and family to access various web services securely. However, users must exercise caution when exposing devices outside Tailscale’s encrypted environment to ensure security and privacy.