It’s 2024 and there’s a fantastic tool available that can connect Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD machines together into a single network. Of course, that’s possible using samba, ssh, nfs or a whole range of other tools but tailscale makes the process super easy and very quick. And for upto three users, you can have a network of upto one hundred machines, free!
On local machine, run ssh-keygen This creates two files /.ssh/id_rsa.pub (public key) and /.ssh/id_rsa (private key). Still on local machine, run ssh-copy-id remoteusername@remoteserver This copies your public key to remote server. Now try doing ssh to remote machine, no password should be required. if ssh-copy-id fails # Sometimes, ssh-copy-id gives an error and doesn’t copy the files. In that case, use this one liner but replace the remoteuser and servername: