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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?

#31
> Can anyone recommend a better remote management solution?

What of teamviewer's features do you need? Screen sharing? Forget RDP. Zeroconf / NAT punching? Forget VNC. And so on…

If the machines already are in a VPN and you don't need screensharing, RDP is probably the most reliable solution.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?

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Is there anything that uses h265 available for remote desktop?

Why would you want that? Pretty much no hardware natively support h265 and any bandwidth gains you might get are swamped by the CPU and latency cost with software encoding h265

New-ish desktop nvidia GPUs encode h265 natively, my gtx970 does anyway

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?

#35

RDP ? Why doesn't anyone use the official protocol for remote desktop on Windows ? It's fast. I say this as a unix dev that likes to RDP into a Windows box to test stuff.

You can't share the screen with RDP, and you have to VPN in, or port forward with NAT...

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?

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RDP ? Why doesn't anyone use the official protocol for remote desktop on Windows ? It's fast. I say this as a unix dev that likes to RDP into a Windows box to test stuff.

Many people don't think of RDP because it isn't great for support-type jobs: you can't share the screen with the local user. But for administrative purposes where that is not required it is a good way to go.

That's what "Window Remote Assistance"[0] is for.

"By following a few steps, you can invite someone to connect to your computer. After he or she is connected, that person can view your computer screen and chat with you about what you both see. With your permission, your helper can even use his or her own mouse and keyboard to control your computer and show you how to fix a problem."

[0] - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-is-windows-r...

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?

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Some alternatives: - RDP - RealVNC (free for personal use): https://www.realvnc.com/products/vnc/ - LogMeIn: https://secure.logmein.com/home

Why is it downvoted, VNC based clients are very common and RDP (while not really optimal as replacement, has been upvoted a lot in another comment).

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?

#39
Maybe you're thinking about Windows (you didn't specify), but if you happen to be on OSX, then a lot of people don't realize that iMessage in Messages.app has screen sharing built in. "Buddies" menu -> "Ask To Share Screen".
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