I really hope you lock it down to something like Tailscale so that you have a private area network and your Samba share isn’t open to the entire world.

Samba is a complicated piece of software built around protocols from the 90s. It’s designed around the old idea of physical network security where it’s isolated on a LAN and has a long long history of serious critical security vulnerabilities (eg here’s an RCE from this month https://cybersecuritynews.com/critical-samba-rce-vulnerabili...).