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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?

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Post by malnourish »

thedaemon wrote: post #24
simlevesque wrote: post #11

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.

I use Terminals https://terminals.codeplex.com/ for all my RDP sessions and some SSH sessions as well. It's very useful.

Similarly I, and most people at my company, use mremmote ng http://www.mremoteng.org/

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?

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Post by drdaeman »

Aldo_MX wrote: post #28
pat_space wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

windows 10 home doesn't include RDP

the last time I checked it included the client, anyway, you usually don't mount a server with windows home.

The server is present in Home editions as well, although the access is invite-only. It can be found under the "Remote Assistance" name (msra.exe).

I'm not sure if non-MS clients (like rdesktop) are able to work with it, though.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?

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Post by aroch »

dharma1 wrote: post #34
aroch wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Most people don't have newiwsh desktop-class GPUs. Particularly in the enterprise environment most remote desktop programs are born out of

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?

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Post by unprepare »

dsp1234 wrote: post #36
detaro wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

yeah cuz i want to spend half an hour explaining how to send an invite to the CEO who cant connect to his email 5 minutes before a critical meeting....

in other words, teamviewer requires 0 user interaction

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?

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Post by unprepare »

Aldo_MX wrote: post #30
dharma1 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OpenGL doesn't work with RDP - it's an issue for using some apps remotely. https://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/showthread.php/1981...

I remember reading a while ago about a virtual GPU with RemoteFx[1], I have no idea how it works though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RemoteFX

RemoteFX works really good, but it only works on specific hardware iirc

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?

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Post by mieses »

mutaaf wrote: post #23

Chrome Remote Desktop is the best solution I have used. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk...

It's difficult to configure chrome remote desktop for persistent sharing and autostarting, at least in linux. THen it times out every few minutes asking the local user to continue approving access. It doesn't seem to compete with teamviewer by design.
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