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>Telling your home router to forward 445 is not that hard At first I thought this was sarcasm... Dont do not... putting samba or any other SMB server on the

>Telling your home router to forward 445 is not that hard At first I thought this was sarcasm... Dont do not... putting samba or any other SMB server on the wider internet is a bad bad idea. It is a good way to get your system compromised. >>& tablets should just be able to connect over SMB The draw of Emby, Plex, and jellyfin is not just to file browse and open up files They Provide Meta Data about the Media, Play Series in proper order, Allow you to see rankings, Ratings, provides Art, etc and most importantly Keeps track of play history on a per user basis. SMB would not do any of this. >>Tailscale's the only company on the planet who seemingly has the sense to extend our homenet's reach quickly/easily. Yes and no. VPN's have been used by home users for a long time, and tailscale is far from the only company / project doing what they do [1]. Tailscale was made possible do to a new(ish) VPN protocol (wiregaurd) that is very light weight and secure, previous VPN systems like OpenVPN would not be able to support something like tailscale [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/910766/ https://lwn.net/Articles/910766/

rektide 4y ago
> At first I thought this was sarcasm... Dont do not... putting samba or any other SMB server on the wider internet is a bad bad idea. It is a good way to get your system compromised. Fearmongering FUDdy advice thats a decade old now. There's nothing in this 10 year old post that seems relevant today, from what I can tell. People just cannot give up their fear! Get over it. https://superuser.com/a/311664 https://superuser.com/a/311664 Post a real reply if you have it but dont just shit up a topic with insubstantiated terrormongering. > They Provide Meta Data about the Media, Play Series in proper order, Allow you to see rankings, Ratings, provides Art, etc and most importantly Keeps track of play history on a per user basis. SMB would not do any of this. Have you never used a media player on a phone? They all do this. I should be able to do this with files on my phone, or files shared with my phone. I dont see ehy custom software beyond a regular media playing app is warranted. Except transcoding. That alone is a harder problem.
- phpisthebest 4y ago
  Yes the entire cyber security industry is just one big con... One big FUD attemptinh to prevent you from playing your media on your phone. You got us... My 20+ years of professional networking and security is a just fear mongering scam.... In reality cve's only get you so far and chances are you have left something open for some one to exploit and are right now probably sending out Nigerian Prince emails from your network or part of a ddos swarm or something like that. One day I will see a post from you about how to buy some Bitcoin to unencrypt your files As to "media apps on my phone". Consume media on multiple devices the least used on is my phone. Even if the app on the phone did that it would not translate to my Roku's, FireTVs, and other media devices, and they would not sync
  - rektide 4y ago
    I am & I have seen a number of people run samba just fine & it took like 20 minutes to set up. Are there reports online of this going bad? Would I be the first ever to try this & to have it explode? Clutching of pearls yo. It's so not a big deal. Dont be driven by fear, dont sell fear.

rektide 4y ago

> At first I thought this was sarcasm... Dont do not... putting samba or any other SMB server on the wider internet is a bad bad idea. It is a good way to get your system compromised. Fearmongering FUDdy advice thats a decade old now. There's nothing in this 10 year old post that seems relevant today, from what I can tell. People just cannot give up their fear! Get over it. https://superuser.com/a/311664 https://superuser.com/a/311664 Post a real reply if you have it but dont just shit up a topic with insubstantiated terrormongering. > They Provide Meta Data about the Media, Play Series in proper order, Allow you to see rankings, Ratings, provides Art, etc and most importantly Keeps track of play history on a per user basis. SMB would not do any of this. Have you never used a media player on a phone? They all do this. I should be able to do this with files on my phone, or files shared with my phone. I dont see ehy custom software beyond a regular media playing app is warranted. Except transcoding. That alone is a harder problem.

phpisthebest 4y ago
Yes the entire cyber security industry is just one big con... One big FUD attemptinh to prevent you from playing your media on your phone. You got us... My 20+ years of professional networking and security is a just fear mongering scam.... In reality cve's only get you so far and chances are you have left something open for some one to exploit and are right now probably sending out Nigerian Prince emails from your network or part of a ddos swarm or something like that. One day I will see a post from you about how to buy some Bitcoin to unencrypt your files As to "media apps on my phone". Consume media on multiple devices the least used on is my phone. Even if the app on the phone did that it would not translate to my Roku's, FireTVs, and other media devices, and they would not sync
- rektide 4y ago
  I am & I have seen a number of people run samba just fine & it took like 20 minutes to set up. Are there reports online of this going bad? Would I be the first ever to try this & to have it explode? Clutching of pearls yo. It's so not a big deal. Dont be driven by fear, dont sell fear.