Perhaps more importantly, remote access software also lets you take control of someone else's computer when they need help. Your entire desktop is right there, in a window on another device that you have at hand, and you can take control of your computer as though you’re sitting in front of it. Whether you need to quickly check something or grab a locally-saved file, you can. If there would have been an opensource program which could do Remote Support we would use it, but we haven't find anything good so far.Remote access software makes everything on your computer available to you anywhere you go. We use ScreenConnect at the moment for remote support to troubleshoot and fix customers PCs, TeamViewer is a bit better overall but it is extremly expensive, ScreenConnect is on the same level of quality (tested more on Windows), but much more affordable. You might be able to use Remmina with the VNC protocoll but I am totally unfamiliar with VNC. SimpleHelp (from Windows)-(ports 9005? should not be blocked outbound) and recentlyĬonnectWise (formerly named ScreenConnect) (from Windows, ubuntu)-(ports 8040-8041 should not be blocked outbound),
TeamViewer (from Windows, ubuntu, Fedora)-(bypasses Firewall very well), If you move your mouse it moves their cursor, and same with keyboard. Remote Support - When you connect to someone else's PC and control their logon session as you were them.
Remote Desktop Connection (from Windows), In this case you would not see what other logged on users are doing on the same machine (Server) you would see your login and your desktop only. Remote Desktop - where you log in to a remote machine, most common to a server and work on it as you were there.