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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
That’s basically the VPN solution but with a little more flexibility.
If you want to actually expose the service, you can use Tailscale to connect it to a VPS and then expose that port to the web with Nginx, but if you do that, be prepared on the security front because…you know…open internet be full of hazards.
“If you don’t want to use a VPN, use a VPN instead”