Getting started with your simple headscale install

Host your headscale server - First Step

First set up a headscale server on your favorite flavor of linux. Since self-hosting the headscale server requires too much reverse proxying/port forwarding you might find that running it on a VPS is a lot simpler (and cheaper)! You can get started with setting up the server portion of headscale here:

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/blob/main/docs/running-headscale-linux.md

The binaries for the headscale server can be found here:

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/releases

Or skip the tedious setup above just dockerize it (recommended)

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/blob/main/docs/running-headscale-container.md

Headscale client setup install - Final step

Start here if you already have a headscale server running

To connect any windows client to your headscale server simply download this binary to the client and run it:

https://github.com/0xDeadcell/simple-headscale-install/releases/download/v1.1.0/release_setup_headscale-x64_v1.1.0.exe

If you prefer to run it via the command line:

curl https://github.com/0xDeadcell/simple-headscale-install/releases/download/v1.1.0/release_setup_headscale-x64_v1.1.0.exe -o setup_headscale.exe && setup_headscale.exe https://hs.yourdomain.com preauthkey

Build Instructions (OPTIONAL)

If you decide you'd like to build from source here are the instructions:

*(Note: Project needs to be run with administrator rights because it needs to write to the HKLM registry before installing tailscale)

git clone https://github.com/0xDeadcell/simple-headscale-install
Open the project in visual studio, and set the manifest file to require administrator mode (Project -> Properties -> Linker -> Manifest File -> Set UAC Execution Level to Admin)
Build