This has been my solution too. I have a vpn into my home on all my devices, so even away from home I can typically rely on it. As a side note, for Android I've

This has been my solution too. I have a vpn into my home on all my devices, so even away from home I can typically rely on it. As a side note, for Android I've been using (and can't praise enough) Material Files [1]. It's the best simple file manager I've used that has built in samba support. [1] https://f-droid.org/packages/me.zhanghai.android.files/ https://f-droid.org/packages/me.zhanghai.android.files/