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For people interested in a minimalist setup, Tailscale + Samba can go very far. I personally use Foobar2000 and VLC on the client side.

It’s not pretty nor great with bad connections, but there is basically no maintenance.

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This, but plain Wireguard instead of Tailscale. This assumes you have a public IP. But you can't do true self-hosting without one.

Tailscale IS Wireguard. With all the reasonable management added. You can selfhost the control part via Headscale. Plain Wireguard can be a hassle for most - that bore Netbird, WG-Easy, Netmaker... out of those Tailscale got it the most right.

foobar's rock solid. I have a portable copy on a mounted NAS share and it's great for transcoding and being an ad hoc music player while setting up new computers

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