Headscale

Headscale

Juan Font
YNQ

YNQ

Visuality Systems
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About

Headscale is an open-source, self-hosted implementation of the control server used by the Tailscale network, enabling users to keep full ownership of their private tailnets while using Tailscale clients. It supports registering users and nodes, issuing pre-authentication keys, advertising subnet-routes and exit-node capabilities, enforcing access-control lists, and integrating with OIDC/SAML identity providers for user authentication. The server is deployable via Debian/Ubuntu packages or standalone binaries, configurable through a YAML file, and managed via its CLI or REST API. Headscale tracks each node, route, and user in its database, supports route approval workflows, and enables features such as subnet routing, exit node designation, and node-to-node mesh within the tailnet. Being self-hosted, it gives organizations and hobbyists full control over their private network endpoints, encryption keys, and traffic flows, rather than depending on a commercial control plane.

About

YNQ is a portable SMB server and client stack developed by Visuality Systems, written in ANSI C and designed to run on embedded, IoT, or non-Windows systems while ensuring full interoperability with Windows-based machines. It enables remote file operations (write, edit, copy, delete, update) over a network without needing to transfer entire files locally, while maintaining a small resource footprint ideal for constrained environments. YNQ supports full compatibility across all SMB dialects (from NTLM 0.12 through SMB 3.1.1), including backward compatibility, making it broadly applicable across SMB ecosystems. It offers security features such as Kerberos (domain-join, delegation), NTLM/NTLMv2, message signing, SMB encryption, and pre-authentication integrity. YNQ is modular and comprises four product components; Standalone Client, Corporate Client (with Active Directory registration capability), Standalone Server, and Corporate Server.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

System administrators and hobbyist self-hosters wanting a tool to build and control a secure, self-managed VPN/mesh network using Tailscale clients

Audience

Embedded systems developers and device manufacturers requiring a solution providing an SMB client/server stack for integration into constrained systems

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

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Pricing

Free
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

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Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
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In Person

Company Information

Juan Font
Netherlands
headscale.net/stable/

Company Information

Visuality Systems
Founded: 1998
Israel
visualitynq.com/products/ynq/

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

Active Directory
Apple iOS
C
Debian
Java
Microsoft 365
Nucleus
Ubuntu
VxWorks
YAML

Integrations

Active Directory
Apple iOS
C
Debian
Java
Microsoft 365
Nucleus
Ubuntu
VxWorks
YAML
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