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Re: Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer?

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Post by kkfx »

archfrog wrote: post #25
BuildTheRobots wrote: post #4

AnyDesk seems like the most obvious drop-in replacement. It's not awful either, I've used it for remote video editing quite successfully. I'm less thrilled that for both AD and TV the client and server is the same application. I want to be able to connect to other people's computers without ever having something hook into or have the possibility to display my own desktop.

I agree fully with you. AnyDesk is pretty cool and mostly works well. There's a small trick you can use: Run but don't install AnyDesk, that way it won't install its services and so on. Simply don't ever click on the "Install" button in the app.

Unfortunately have the same "commercial limitation" of TV. RustDesk have none.

Re: Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer?

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Post by archfrog »

kkfx wrote: post #51
archfrog wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree fully with you. AnyDesk is pretty cool and mostly works well. There's a small trick you can use: Run but don't install AnyDesk, that way it won't install its services and so on. Simply don't ever click on the "Install" button in the app.

Unfortunately have the same "commercial limitation" of TV. RustDesk have none.

You can disable the "commercial usage detected" haressments easily enough:

    https://anydesk.com/en/whitelist-request

Re: Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer?

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Post by kkfx »

archfrog wrote: post #52
kkfx wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately have the same "commercial limitation" of TV. RustDesk have none.

You can disable the "commercial usage detected" haressments easily enough: https://anydesk.com/en/whitelist-request

it's still a commercial service, with RustDesk or MeshCentral I own/I can own if I wish the entire infra, so I can be let down by a third party problem.

Re: Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer?

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Post by amai »

BuildTheRobots wrote: post #4

AnyDesk seems like the most obvious drop-in replacement. It's not awful either, I've used it for remote video editing quite successfully. I'm less thrilled that for both AD and TV the client and server is the same application. I want to be able to connect to other people's computers without ever having something hook into or have the possibility to display my own desktop.

They recently got hacked: https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/alerte/CERTFR-2024-ALE-003/

Re: Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer?

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Post by throwiforgtnlzy »

incahoots wrote: post #22

I’m a fan of RustDesk for my IT consulting needs. https://rustdesk.com/

Run 2 instances of the Docker container rustdesk/rustdesk-server with hhbr and hhbs and it will work locally. It can also work in a single container with the s6 overlay variant.

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server

Re: Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer?

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Post by throwiforgtnlzy »

mirzap wrote: post #37

RustDesk is all you need. It's pretty decent and they have quite a few options even for business usage

Yep. I use the FOSS version of RD (firewall locked-down processes on clients and servers) and it's much faster and better than TigerVNC and RealVNC. I don't trust third-party, cloud-based remote access management because it's giving away too much access prone to massive failures like 1Password, Okta, and AnyDesk.

Re: Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer?

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Post by throwiforgtnlzy »

rekabis wrote: post #9

RustDesk has been my go-to for nearly two years now. Their main C&C server had experienced a DDOS late last year that I could have avoided being affected by if I had set up my own C&C server, but I wasn’t in the right spot for that work so I just remained patient and rode it out. Only paid features (IIRC) are if you want your list of saved connections to follow you across more than one computer, which requires an acc…

Just run hbbs and hbbr locally. The paid features aren't all that useful for the risks they introduce.
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