I enabled Tailscale on my KVM and also did bind my device to my Tailscale account. On the Tailscale dashboard I can see that the device is connected and even got an IP. When I put that IP in the browser I get an error that it's unreachable. I looked everywhere in the KVM settings to see if there's a place to allow remote access but didn't find it and I don't see it mentioned anywhere. I want to be able to access my Mac laptop from a browser on a different network without having to install Tailscale on it. Please help!
Can the tailscale ip of COMET be ping successfully?
It doesn't ping successfully from the device that is not part of my Tailscale account. I added another machine to my Tailscale account, and I can successfully ping and access my Mac from that device, but that doesn't solve my problem because that means even though I don't need to install GLKVN app, I still need to install Tailscale on that device and add it to the same account for me to access the Mac remotely. Is there a way to access my Mac remotely on browser without installing GLKVM or Tailscale on the device I'm accessing from?
I don't think that there is a way to achieve your goal in the way you have described. You may be able to achieve remote access by using Wireguard VPN tunnel between your home network and your remote device
That makes the documentation a bit misleading. I bought this device thinking this was possible because that's how it's stated here.
I finally found a solution! I enabled funnel from my Tailscale account and went to the device terminal and ran tailscale funnel https+insecure://localhost:443, which exposed my service to the internet using the URL provided by on the Tailscale dashboard.
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Fantastic that you found a solution but is this not a bit too risky on your whole Tailnet from a security perspective?
I'm very aware of the risk, but it's one I'm willing to take and have taken precautions. I bought this device specifically to do this, as I'm unwilling to install anything on both target and accessing devices.
It's quite interesting. It seems that tailscale also has a hidden reverse proxy service
We are already developing a method to access it directly through the browser, which will be available to users in July.
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This would be a key feature!