Zero Tier One

What is Zero Tier One?

Zero Tier One is an application which creates a virtual network. The virtual network allows users who are not on the same network to connect and work as if they were. The software can be installed on almost any machine and operating system, allowing anyone to to connect from almost anywhere on any device. You can install Zero Tier One Here

How Do We Use It?

We use Zero Tier One to allow students that aren't in person to connect to a machine that is on the network, using remote desktop this allows them to use a computer as if they were in person. This has been a great tool for the class in a time when there's a lot of students that aren't in person.

How to Install (Windows based)

You're going to go here find your operating system. Once you have found your operating system, and it works for almost every operating system and device, you will download. Once you've downloaded it you will then install it as you would any other application.

Installing for Linux (Debian based)

Installing for Linux is a little different. (the difference between the two is that you have to have a GPG installed for the second instillation method, and that the first method is less secure but works fine for most cases)

If you're going to trust an SSL to authenticate the site, you'll open a terminal and type

curl -s https://install.zerotier.com | sudo bash

But if you don't want to trust an SSL and you have a GPG installed then you're going to still open a terminal but you're going to type instead.

curl -s 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/master/doc/contact%40zerotier.com.gpg' | gpg --import && \
if z=$(curl -s 'https://install.zerotier.com/' | gpg); then echo "$z" | sudo bash; fi

Making and Managing a Network

You're going to need to make an account here if you want to make a network. Once you've made an account it's very easy to make a network. You simply have to sign in and there will be a big "Create A Network" button. Once you click that a network will appear below that. Click on that, and you've created a network. Now once you've entered the editing process of making your network you have a few options that I'll get into in a second but first the basics, Name you can change the name of your network to whatever you want. You can add a brief description of what your network is, this would be useful if you had multiple networks that you wanted to manage. Next Access Control, I would recommend using Private unless you specifically wanted to create an open network but it's just more secure to create a private network.

If you scroll down you'll see the Advanced section, you don't really have to worry much about this unless you're going to get the paid version of Zero Tier One. These are the options that I mentioned earlier, if you scroll down just a bit further you'll see that you have IPv4 Auto-Assign, this is where you're going to assign the IP Range that your new network is going to use, you probably won't have to worry about this unless you're running multiple networks.

Now if you want people to join your new network you're going to scroll down until you see the section that says Members, and that is going to be collapsed so you click on the arrow to expand it, that will have a section that says something like this.

Ex. Use the ZeroTierOne app on your devices to join 83048a063224b6e1

everyone's will be different but it will look very similar to this. Have the device that you're trying to get to connect to your network use that code and you should see them pop unto the members section. The rest of the site is for more advanced users.