At my highschool the wifi is pretty locked up, at my house i have a raspberry pi set up as an exit node and a couple other devices on my tailnet. This works great for bypassing school wifi restrictions, but i cant install Tailscale on the desktop in my computer lab (windows 11) without an admin password. Any ideas?
I’ve heard of a subnet router before but im not sure if that would work for this use case. Pls help im trynna play fortnite on the school computers 
(regardless of whether I should)
It’s not your computer and it’s not your network.
I don’t condone this, as it’s not your network and not your computer. But, technically… you could buy one of the GLiNet routers with Tailscale built in, and connect the school computer to that and set your exit node in the router settings. Any traffic through that router will now go through your exit node. But please, don’t do this. It’s probably illegal, and no, it is NOT protected under 1A… and the schools filtering does not infringe on 1A… you have a lot to learn about that it seems. 
I don’t think that’s possible, since tailscale needs admin rights for some steps during the installation.
It isn’t your network to f around on, quit making my life hard kid
My school was nice enough to have a WiFi network that students could use with their own devices. I installed tailscale on my phone and connected to a raspberry pi under my desk at home through the closest available DERP server. I used it as an exit node to bypass the network’s content filter, which stopped me from accessing the tech news sites I enjoyed. That made my lunch breaks much more entertaining, at least until fortiguard started blocking access to the control plane (though I did find a way around that before I left).
That only worked because it was on my device. You cannot (and ideally should not) try this on a device that isn’t yours because the IT folks can easily stop you. Part of the reason why the machines are locked down is because it (mostly) prevents malicious actors from installing viruses that can compromise the network and open the institution up to legal issues. There’s not going to be any good way around it. If there were, Microsoft wouldn’t be getting anywhere near as much money from education and enterprise contracts.
As an aside, I must ask. Fortnite? Really? Can you not think of anything better to use as your “protest” game? Why not Half-Life 2, or Persona 5, or Doom?
You could with a Beryl AX or raspberry pi, but honestly it’s not really worth the time and money. Basically you need to install tailscale on a router (because hacking a school computer will be hard unless it’s misconfigured) then connect the router to the school wifi (which may not be easy) and connect the school computer to that router. There’s probably easier ways to do it than tailscale. If parsec isn’t blocked you can remote stream your computer at home. highly unlikely that port 22 isnt blocked but you could use an SSH tunnel.
All these things while seemingly small could get you in a lot of trouble because you could be introducing vulnerabilities to the schools network by doing this. Using your phone cellular hotspot is legal and easy!
If you really need that
Then find a usb drive
and go on some windows computer that has Tailscale installed
Search for Tailscale from the search bar
click on “open file location”
If it shows the folder of the shortcut
then open file location of that Tailscale shortcut again
Now you are supposed to be in the Tailscale folder
Back off one directory copy the whole folder of Tailscale to usb drive
Done just plug the usb drive into your lab computer open up the Tailscale.exe something like that
This way your lab computer remains intact and you have got a copy of portable Tailscale for windows too
I have never tried this with the Tailscale but it supposed to work like others programs
I dont believe in this kind of censorship, which is why i bypass the wifi on my OWN devices. I fully support the school censoring on their own computers, but i still want to play games during class. Its really not that deep, and yes, i am aware of the potential consequences.
I was going to make basically the same suggestion - and the same warning. Going to guess hooking up your school PC to an alternate router would be greatly frowned upon… and if the PC has management software (likely), it may detect the network change and set off alerts.
Just a bad idea with school hardware.
Do you think i could configure a raspberry pi to do the same thing?
I manage 4 pc labs at a local hs.
I just 3d printed rj45 lock for all the computers in house.
Enabled bitlocker on them manually to prevent idiots from changing admin pass via one of those usb tools.
Have an on premises server (running win server, love using the schools budget on worthless licenses) which I have set as the dns on the router they all connect to, with forward lookup zones for every major site (besides youtube, I’m not that cruel) and also Nvidia GeForce now.
On that server I have a custom program that manages AD so every student has their own login for each pc, meaning if they mess with it I’ll know by the username.
Ofc I also have a firewall blocking a bunch of ports used for different stuff, and a classroom management solution on each pc
Whoever does my high-school did something similar because it is locked the fuck down. I am curious though how did you manage to block vpns?
Fortnite for the gimmick, realistically i’d probably go for cs2 or subnautica
my phone cant hotspot 
follow and respect my first amendment rights.
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should at least follow and respect my first amendment rights
ahhh so young, so naive
The first amendment does not give you the right to an unrestricted internet connection on and with someone else’s property.
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That’s not censorship. It’s not your device, even.
Have fun potentially being expelled/reprimanded for violating school policy.
