tailscale's taildrop is an good alternative and maybe more secure(?)
Via https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop:
- "Since Taildrop is an alpha feature, you’ll need to opt your network in to the test to use it."
- "Taildrop is only available on Synology with Tailscale v1.18.2".
- "Currently that means you need to manually install Tailscale on your Synology NAS."
Taking Occam's Razor to it:
- Buy Enterprise™ hardware to use alpha software.
- "more secure" has a prefix of "maybe" and a suffix of "(?)" in the comment recommending it
I'm ruling it out altogether.
> - "Taildrop is only available on Synology with Tailscale v1.18.2".
> - "Currently that means you need to manually install Tailscale on your Synology NAS."
Only apply if you're installing it ON Synology hardware, otherwise it is matter of installing the tailscale client and opting your network in.
"Taildrop is only available on Synology with Tailscale v1.18.2 or later."
That sentence is the first sentence under the "Setting up Taildrop on Synology" section of the documentation.
Maybe not great wording or arrangement of statements on that page since it seems to have stopped you in your tracks reading at that point, but you can scroll down and see discussion of using it on other platforms. What you're hyper-focused on is a subsection under the heading specifically dealing with Synology.