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Assuming the user will not be connecting over vpn, but is both remote and non-technical, how would you expose Jellyfin to them securely?

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

if theyre close, add them to your tailscale, if not and you have a web serve, use a reverse proxy.

for tailscale, you'd probably have to walk them through setting it up but then its one and done

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 3 months ago

“If you don’t want to use a VPN, use a VPN instead”

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