I have a scanner I use to scan documents and send them to my server over the internet. I also would like to connect my mobile devices (Mac and iOS) to it as well. I tried the proftpd plugin but it always times out. I also tried serverdomain.io/sharename and serverdomain.io/shares/sharename but these don’t work either. 
 

The mobile devices can use Nextcloud but the scanner has no such capabilities. I thought it would be fairly straightforward to accomplish this but it’s more difficult than I anticipated. 
 

I use cloudflare tunnels for routing traffic to my server. 

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I just want to be able to connect to a share without using a VPN. 

Depends on what protocol you are trying to make the connection with.  It sounds like you're trying to connect the scanner to save a document to an SMB share.

I haven't tried this, so I don't know if it works.  But I did see that cloudflare tunnels have settings for SMB:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-apps/use_cases/smb/

EDIT:
Reading more on that cloudflare SMB access, sounds like it needs cloudflared installed on the server machine and on the client.  So don't know if that will work for you since you have a dumb scanner.  (no insult intended, haha)

What you are describing I would usually accomplish with a VPN tunnel, usually using pfsense.  If open ports are a concern against VPN, tailscale would work well without opening ports.

Edited February 21, 20233 yr by samsausages

On 2/21/2023 at 8:27 AM, samsausages said:

Depends on what protocol you are trying to make the connection with.  It sounds like you're trying to connect the scanner to save a document to an SMB share.

I haven't tried this, so I don't know if it works.  But I did see that cloudflare tunnels have settings for SMB:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-apps/use_cases/smb/

EDIT:
Reading more on that cloudflare SMB access, sounds like it needs cloudflared installed on the server machine and on the client.  So don't know if that will work for you since you have a dumb scanner.  (no insult intended, haha)

What you are describing I would usually accomplish with a VPN tunnel, usually using pfsense.  If open ports are a concern against VPN, tailscale would work well without opening ports.

I use cloudflare tunnels to host all my external services. Issue being I don’t have a way to install the warp client on the device. My mobile and desktop clients work with warp I don’t see a way to install it on my scanner. It has a scan to web address function that I have been trying to use but I can’t seem to figure out the right address to access a share over the web.