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Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?
I have several machines around the country that I need to remotely manage. Team Viewer has been unreliable and I'm looking to move our organization away from it.
Can anyone recommend a better remote management solution?
- edoceo 10y agoI've been using SimpleHelp. Self-hosted. Not perfect but very good, reasonable cost. Install an agent or use a one-time app.
- severine 10y agoGuacamole? Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744430
- scsibusfault 10y agoScreenconnect.
- benjohnson 10y agoAfter being both out by Connectwise, Screenconnect's new pricing model is horribly expensive now - I'm grandfathered but wouldn't touch it now. Simple Help is seems to at the point where Screenconnect was a few years ago - works, cheap, and good support.
- reitanqild 10y agoLet me add to this that in addition to OP stating that it has been unreliable I think there are two other big reasons to move away: 1. TeamViewer is used a lot for Microsoft scams and AFAIK they don't care very much. 2. Dark patterns. TeamViewer upgrade their protocol all-the-time and once one part has updated the others have to as well, forcing the cost on everyone. (And the pricing is outrageous IMO. When you can get a full office suite for less than the subscription cost of the remote support solution then something odd is going on.)
- rgloeckner 10y agothere is FastViewer, don't know the cost and of course several free variants of VNC
- marklyon 10y agoIt costs money, but there's always the BOMGAR box. https://www.bomgar.com/ https://www.bomgar.com/
- grep4master 10y agohttp://www.splashtop.com/ http://www.splashtop.com/ works very well for me.
- MatzeBraun 10y agohttp://anydesk.com http://anydesk.com
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- simlevesque 10y agoRDP ? 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.
- detaro 10y agoMany 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.
- dsp1234 10y agoThat'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/en-us/windows/what-is-windows-remote-assistance http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-is-windows-r...
- unprepare 10y agoyeah 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
- abcd_f 10y ago(a bit of port forwarding or VPN) + (VNC or RDP) ? What you get from TeamViewer/LogMeIn/etc. is the zeroconf aspect of the experience, which in turn is because they provide of a central rendezvous/discovery point. If you know where your peers are, you don't really need an assisted remote management service.
- hjuutilainen 10y agohttps://www.nomachine.com/ https://www.nomachine.com/
- snerbles 10y agoNoMachine works quite well on a headless Mac Mini. You'll need a display emulator dongle to prevent OSX rendering artifacts: https://www.amazon.com/CompuLab-fit-Headless-Display-Emulator/dp/B00FLZXGJ6?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0 https://www.amazon.com/CompuLab-fit-Headless-Display-Emulato...
- jesalg 10y agoSome alternatives: - RDP - RealVNC (free for personal use): https://www.realvnc.com/products/vnc/ https://www.realvnc.com/products/vnc/ - LogMeIn: https://secure.logmein.com/home https://secure.logmein.com/home
- frik 10y agoWhy is it downvoted, VNC based clients are very common and RDP (while not really optimal as replacement, has been upvoted a lot in another comment).
- dharma1 10y agoIs there anything that uses h265 available for remote desktop?
- aroch 10y agoWhy 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
- jerelunruh 10y agoThe best alternative that I've used for end user support is Remote Utilities: https://www.remoteutilities.com/ https://www.remoteutilities.com/ They have an executable that non-technical users can easily download + run in addition to a version for unattended access.
- ben_pr 10y agoI use nomachine, works on Linux and Windows. I have a VPN installed at all locations and the software runs behind that.
- mutaaf 10y agoChrome Remote Desktop is the best solution I have used. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk...
- mieses 10y agoIt'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.
- w8rbt 10y agoYou should list more detailed requirements. Are the hosts you manage behind network firewalls and/or NAT? Do you expect to be able to initiate requests in, or does the client initiate requests out?
- sashk 10y agoI've been using join.me and HipChat's builtin screen sharing. Back in days, when I had to manage many Windows hosts, I've used Radmin (https://www.radmin.com/ https://www.radmin.com/).
- creshal 10y ago> Can anyone recommend a better remote management solution? What of teamviewer's features do you need? Screen sharing? Forget RDP. Zeroconf / NAT punching? Forget VNC. And so on… If the machines already are in a VPN and you don't need screensharing, RDP is probably the most reliable solution.
- wnevets 10y agoI like www.mikogo.com
- mylesab 10y agoI have been using GoToAssist for around five years to connect to different client machines.
- 0x0 10y agoMaybe you're thinking about Windows (you didn't specify), but if you happen to be on OSX, then a lot of people don't realize that iMessage in Messages.app has screen sharing built in. "Buddies" menu -> "Ask To Share Screen".
- cheuv 10y agoAmmyy admin : http://www.ammyy.com/ http://www.ammyy.com/
- kn9 10y agoCheck out Pertino http://pertino.com http://pertino.com and Zerotier https://www.zerotier.com https://www.zerotier.com
- Gys 10y agoTeam Viewer is about controlling a pc / Mac remotely. Like 'viewing' the screen...
- rgloeckner 10y agoAnyDesk maybe
- Machiq 10y agoIf you are an Industrial Machine builder/Industrial OEM, you might be interested in our marketplace for remote diagnostic services. The remote screensharing tools are backed into the platform via WebRTC. We however don't offer remote control. www.machiq.com
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- mbrike 10y agoWell if you're up for something completely new, you can check out eHorus. They're still in beta phase but the application is very promising and solid nevertheless. The plus side is that they also include double factor authentication which gives them a big security advantage when compared to Team Viewer. You can check their webpage http://ehorus.com http://ehorus.com out and see what you make of it.
- superchink 10y agoRelevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4m7ay6/teamviewer_has_been_hacked_they_are_denying/ https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4m7ay6/teamview... It looks like there are several reports of folks being hacked via TeamViewer.
- contrato 10y agoAlpemix very well for me. Small,fast,cheap.