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Tailscale tutorial: your Mac and a server on one private network

· Flaviocopes · Nov. 6, 2026, 11:54 a.m.

Summary

This blog post provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to set up Tailscale on a Mac and a VPS, focusing on creating a secure private network, utilizing SSH, serving private web pages, and configuring the server as an exit node.

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