Currently I set up Tailscale in my Synology NAS and I can access selfhosted services on my phone using the Android app. I want to use some services in my work PC too but I’m blocked from installing any software. So my question is, is there any solution that allows me to connect to selfhosted VPN via browser extension? (Just like NordVPN, I can install the browser extension to use it and I don’t need the Windows app.)
Maybe look into deploying a Socks5 proxy (e.g. socks5-server)? Then you can use socks5 browser extensions like FoxyProxy
https://shadowsocks.org/ should be a good option, easy to install, encrypted, and password protected
Not a direct solution, but I found an interesting feature named SSH console. It won’t enable you to access your NAS directly but instead open SSH in the browser to access it remotely. Then you can somehow put some file on another cloud to access it from host machine. I know it’s not what you want but you know, doesn’t need any software other than a browser this way ;)
I use Cloudflare tunnels for this very reason, you can protect access to the page behind a login (I use azure AD).
It basically acts like a reverse proxy allowing me access to those local resources without anything being installed on the client computer.
This is the right answer.
The only other solution I can think of would be to put a device in the middle (such as this router).
Or you can use the CF Tunnel equivalent from Tailscale, called Funnel.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.
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