# Ziti "basics" question

**URL:** <https://openziti.discourse.group/t/ziti-basics-question/405>\
**Category:** Ziti Overlay\
**Created:** [April 14, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/ziti-basics-question/405 "2022-04-14T17:10:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheLumberjack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/thelumberjack/32/113_2.png) [@TheLumberjack](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/TheLumberjack)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/ziti-basics-question/405/1 "2022-04-14T17:10:29Z")

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An email landed in a NetFoundry employee's inbox in Portuguese asking for OpenZiti help. Roughly translated it said:

> I would like to know if you would have a time to demonstrate the process of creating tunnels or alternatively creating a tunnel with me. I tried following the OpenZiti tutorials and managed to create a server and a ZitiNetwork, however the documentation for creating keys and identity profiles is outdated and so I couldn't progress from there.

I am posting this question as a new topic to encourage this user to sign up for discourse and interact here

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**Author:** ![TheLumberjack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/thelumberjack/32/113_2.png) [@TheLumberjack](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/TheLumberjack)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/ziti-basics-question/405/2 "2022-04-14T17:19:16Z")

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First of all - whomever you are - welcome to OpenZiti!!! 🙂

Next I would want to know what sort of problem you are trying to solve. It’s always best to keep it simple and start small. Are you trying to vnc/rdp/ssh from your local computer to a remote computer? Maybe you’re trying to access some content via your browser? Knowing exactly what kind of solution you’re trying to learn/play with helps tremendously.

I’d also like to know which documentation was out of date. If there’s some bad/misleading doc I’d like to clean that up!

At its most basic, you will want to:

- [create an overlay network with a quickstart](https://openziti.github.io/ziti/quickstarts/quickstart-overview.html)
- you will want to create two identities. We’ll keep it very simple and call one “client” and one “server”.
- we’ll also keep things very simple and just use `ziti-egde-tunnel` for both client and server. Get [those from here](https://github.com/openziti/ziti-tunnel-sdk-c/releases/latest/)
- use `ziti-edge-tunnel` to “enroll” both client and server identities: `./ziti-edge-tunnel enroll --jwt server.jwt --identity server.json`
- start the client and server tunnelers:
  - `sudo ./ziti-edge-tunnel run -i server.json`
  - `sudo ./ziti-edge-tunnel run -i client.json`

- create a service - maybe using the ZAC or CLI. (this is where the specifics would help) You can scan this discourse for other posts - there’s been a bunch of posts lately to read! 🙂
- access the service

You can watch me demo a lot of these [over on the youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAsrfQasdZmp2Gq07Ej_5cQ)

Let me know if you need any more help