Remote access

[Lee Bo]

Good morning, all.

What is everyone using for unattended remote access these days? When I was at Sharp I was using Team Viewer which worked well, but since I'm not there anymore (and don't have the corporate AmEx card) I'm looking for alternatives that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. I came across Zoho which works well with Microsoft, Mac and Linux and for the price point ($100/year for 25 devices) isn't too horrible. 

Anyone using anything else I may want to try?

Thanks.

[Bill Jacqmein]

https://www.splashtop.com/ - Ive heard good things.

https://tailscale.com/ - Wireguard based and magic. netbird is
opensource version -
https://netbird.io/knowledge-hub/tailscale-vs-netbird

Jeff Geerling has an interesting solution (essentially
tailscale/netbird/etc) -
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/build-your-own-private-wireguard-vpn-pivpn

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[George Law]

tailscale++

i run it on one machine locally.

set up configures the node to be reachable via a 10.X address, but with the --advertise-routes option, it lets you configure access to other computers on your home network

e.g. `--advertise-routes=192.168.29.0/24`  Lets me get to my 192.168.29.X network

you would still need RDP or VNC to get to a desktop on windows/mac/linux but you can use your internal network addresses for that.

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[Fred Laxton]

Take a look at NoMachine, it works on Linux, Windows, macOS for both server and client.

https://www.nomachine.com/support/supported-operating-systems-and-supported-applications

Thanks!

Fred

[Michael Kaney]

I haven't tried it, but I was watching a video about this earlier today...

https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin

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[George Law]

wow, +1 to nomachine .... have not tried that away from home but loaded on one of my computers and then on my android tablet and it gave me the full desktop (running i3wm) within the app

sound included.  

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[Lee Bo]

That does look pretty good.

But it appears there may be a subscription needed to connect from the "outside".

https://www.nomachine.com/network/what-network-subscription

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[Fred Laxton]

The subscription is if you don’t want to configure port forwarding yourself.

I do that so it is free for outside access.

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[Jay Little]

For my work laptop which has Windows (yuck) and also has RDP disabled (ffs) - I recently acquired this:

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-rm1/

Its cheap, the firmware is FOSS and after you install all the firmware updates it works really nicely.  I personally have my firewall setup to block it from accessing the internet as I just access its WebUI over tailscale from wherever I happen to be and I only unblock it when there is a new firmware update to install (as its way easier to install firmware updates automatically from the WebUI rather than downloading it and loading it manually)

Of course this only supports a single machine so if you are looking for a multiple machine solution, this probably isn't for you.

When I used to still do IT on the side, I used to use DWService as a multi-machine remote control solution for clients running Windows:

https://www.dwservice.net/en/home.html

The server is closed source and runs on DWService infrastructure.  The client is open source.  Not sure if the Linux client is Wayland compatible or not but last time I used this three years ago it wasn't.  Honestly though, when it comes to Linux I'm good just sshing into the machine.  In any event, I found that this software worked pretty well.  I was also donating yearly to unlock some higher end features.

[E. Matt Armstrong]

I have used Google Chrome Remote Desktop to help my mom in law's PC. It's easy and free.

https://remotedesktop.google.com/

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[E. Matt Armstrong]

I use the Google Chrome Remote Desktop. It's easy and free.

https://remotedesktop.google.com/support/