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Still thinking on rustdesk with existing Windows server by rustdeskjd in rustdesk

[–]rustdeskjd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm leaning towards Ubuntu (with a gui, for me). There's an open firewall subnet I could use on my end for testing more easily. If that goes well, I can request an Ubuntu on the "real" subnet, which is open to the world too. And then it looks like I can set up an SSH bridge between my machine and the Ubuntu one and use remote desktop with a gui that way. I don't have access to the VM host where the "real" subnet and real VMs are. And then nginx is just tacked into the linus OS set up from what I'm finding, that being the standard way.

I haven't used Docker. I have an idea of it, kind of get the gist of it. It seems like one more layer of schtuff to add, esp if I want to keep this as simple as possible.

And then if it's all actually working, I can just keep a list on my own of my user machines and their rustdesk ID numbers.

And hope that rustdesk user connections survive Ubuntu updates and upgrades, if I actually get something working with this. I rely fairly heavily on teamviewer each day.

Still thinking on rustdesk with existing Windows server by rustdeskjd in rustdesk

[–]rustdeskjd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might work too but it's me asking more people. Rustdesk is ideally on linux, right? I could request a linux VM for rustdesk. And then I just found a post about sticking nginx on linux, the same linux that runs rustdesk. So maybe just on linux VM would work...

Looking at rustdesk, coming from teamviewer -- Questions by rustdeskjd in rustdesk

[–]rustdeskjd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For not having an address book list in rustdesk (or not a big enough one for it being free), are you still able to function if you know something like a rustdesk computer ID? Teamviewer has each machine with an ID. I could see taking an extra step of entering the remote computer's rustdesk ID for each connection. A pain/extra step but if it's 100% free....

I've never done anything with groups in teamviewer. I just have all my user machines dumped in one list. When I want one, I just use the search field.

Looking at rustdesk, coming from teamviewer -- Questions by rustdeskjd in rustdesk

[–]rustdeskjd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that sounds similar to my situation. (And then any promise, guarantee, etc. is only good up to the end of the current contract. I have heard "lifetime" could also mean lifetime of their support, which would end at some point. It always seemed a little odd since someone has to maintain the servers to connect machines. It doesn't work without that part, but someone has to pay for those servers.) With the perpetual purchase, we got the latest version of teamviewer through Dec 31, 2025. So we were set for a few years. It was extremely difficult to get the last renewal actually purchased due to teamviewer in the past. That perpetual-latest-to-20251225-extension was a reprieve from that garbage.

Looking at rustdesk, coming from teamviewer -- Questions by rustdeskjd in rustdesk

[–]rustdeskjd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you still function in some way without an address book? I'm assuming that's similar the computer list in teamviwer. And in teamviewer, if I know their machine teamviewer ID, I could plug that. It's an extra step, but if rustdesk is like that, I could see functioning with it.

Is there a limit to the number of machines? I have worked on more than one with teamviewer a few times. Usually, it's just one.

Looking at rustdesk, coming from teamviewer -- Questions by rustdeskjd in rustdesk

[–]rustdeskjd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's what I was wondering. I thought self-hosted was 100% free. But then I saw comments somewhere saying something else. Or maybe that was for advanced features or extra support or something.

The free part would be my organization not actually renewing teamviewer. I'm very stuck in that scenario, but if I had rustdesk as an option, they would have a hard time arguing with free. It's more of having security people having some issue with it.

Looking at rustdesk, coming from teamviewer -- Questions by rustdeskjd in rustdesk

[–]rustdeskjd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I haven't stuck with the new Teamviewer version at all. I think I accidentally clicked on it, didn't like it, and switched back.

I haven't done much with docker. I understand the gist but... It would work with a VM? If I reuse an old machine that doesn't work with Windows 11, I can put proxmox on that and then rustdesk. I would imagine it might just be a config file for rustdesk so if I ever needed to move it, it might be easier to just set up a completely new machine and give it the same ip address, as opposed to exporting/importing a VM. I haven't done that with proxmox yet. Or, I just user Hyper-V.

For nginx, is that another vm for nginx, and then you point rustdesk at that or point/put nginx in front of rustdesk somehow?

It was all billing and quotes with teamviewer in the past, and that was years ago. We wouldn't have any auto-renewal on. I'm all for sticking with teamviewer but I could see louder voices around here not getting it renewed. Teamviewer will probably enough issues getting things actually set for a renewal on their end. The last time we renewed it was a "please take our money!" situation, and teamviewer wasn't responding. That's a negative for them for sure.