My company wants a solution for remote access, something like VNC. I’d like to support open source development, so any suggestions for something paid that can work without a centralized server?
RustDesk (rustdesk.com) is open source, and similar to TeamViewer, and has paid plans, including a paid self hosted option.
It does need a server though. Either the centralized official one you can selfhost one.
Actually, (and I wasn’t aware of this until you mentioned it, so thank you), it does support serverless connections:
So I think between cloud server, self hosted server and direct IP, OP should be covered.
Wow! I didn’t know
VNC is dead. I’d try to talk them off that if it’s a requirement.
You should probably let RealVNC know, because they don’t seem to have got your memo.
VNC is dead.
How so?
There are a number of software packages in Debian that implement VNC. To grab one random example, the last commit to their git repo was last month.
VNC has long been abandoned by the engineering world. It’s inefficient, it has no transport security, and the implementations are very subjective.
The last time I used a commercial VPS, I’m pretty sure it used VNC to provide console access.
The VNC software I linked to above appears to support TLS. If TLS isn’t sufficient transport security, then most Internet-using software is going to be in trouble.
I’m not sure what you mean by subjective.
I haven’t looked at the VNC protocol for a while, but I don’t think that it imposes any terrible inefficiencies. A couple of decades back, I needed to implement something quick-and-dirty similar to VNC, and went with rendering window contents and handling dragging of windows locally, which I don’t believe that VNC can do (or didn’t then) but IIRC VNC has a tile cache, which, if intelligently used, should avoid most traffic. Dunno if it can deal well with efficiently rendering visual effects.
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I was mostly with you right up until paragraph/linebreak/whatever 4. Took a pretty civil discussion and went bonkers. Put down the keyboard, go rub one out, and relax my dude.
We use VNC as we can record the sessions easily for later priof / discussion with our customers.
It’s in a VPN tunnel of course.
But of course, we also don’t use Google, AWS, etc as they’re not secure enough for us and we have our own SOCs
Shittiest post of the week in the Fedivere, up there ↑.
If you are going to be this shitty, dismissive and misinformative, you can head back to Twitter.
xfreerdp3 (client) and krdp6 (KDE plasma 6 remote desktop server) Then donate recurring to KDE development.
If OP is specifically wanting commercial support, they do mention two companies that provide services.
https://www.freerdp.com/support
FreeRDP itself is a community driven open source project. However there are some people and companies that do offer all sorts of commercial support around FreeRDP:
- David Fort - Hardening Consulting - Contact
- Thincast Technologies GmbH - Contact
FreeRDP doesn’t seem to be soliciting donations, though.
I don’t have a recommendation for you, but if you exhaust your leads there is a large comparrison table with all kinds (and ages) of remote access solutions that you could search against for your criteria (open source, supported, etc) here:
KasmVNC?
I am not going to go as far as to say ‘VNC is dead’, it does have use cases. I selfhost two apps that use the KasmVNC, and while that’s cool and all, and it gets the job done, I’d have to say it’s rather clunky. This all could be because I’m dense and using it wrong, but say I fire up an app that uses KasmVNC. To log in, I have to copy the password to the PC clipboard, paste it into the KasmVNC clipboard, and then right click in the app password dialogue box and paste it from KasmVNC clipboard. I can’t just copy the password to the PC clipboard and paste it into the app I’m trying to run with KasmVNC. Because of this, it doesn’t recognize Bitwarden inputs either. Other than that, VNC does work, but boy I’d try to avoid it in a corporate setting.
