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Apparently TeamViewer supports headless Linux servers: https://www.teamviewer.com/en/remote-access-headless-linux/ https://www.teamviewer.com/en/remote-access-h
by Youden 7y ago
Apparently TeamViewer supports headless Linux servers: https://www.teamviewer.com/en/remote-access-headless-linux/ https://www.teamviewer.com/en/remote-access-headless-linux/
I'm guessing what you're getting at here though is that you want to manage the server through a desktop interface, complete with windows and menus and the like. Most people don't do that on Linux servers because most of the things you need to interact with to administrate one are only accessible through a command line interface.
That said, if you really want to manage a Linux server graphically, you might be able to make it work with something like Xvfb.
- cerberusss 7y agoYeah, I want a desktop. I manage my server via ssh of course, any extra graphical cruft is a liability there. > Xvfb I might, but I've tried a zillion things, and they all suck when you compare it to the ease of use that TeamViewer offers. What I also left out, is that I've already got the TeamViewer client running, because I remote into macOS and Windows.
- Youden 7y agoXvfb would give you the virtual desktop that the TeamViewer Server gives you access to. You'd still use the TeamViewer client to connect to it. Xvfb is just a way of running a graphical environment on a machine that doesn't otherwise have one.
- cerberusss 7y agoThat is... interesting. Is it maintained and packaged by the distros? It doesn't look like it. Duckduckgo gives me a bunch of old 2012-2013 results.
- Youden 7y agoYou should search your package manager, not Duckduckgo. On Debian-based distros it's simply called xvfb, on Arch Linux it's xorg-server-xvfb, in the RHEL ecosystem it's xorg-x11-server-Xvfb but might require enabling extra reporitories.
- cerberusss 7y agoThat's a good tip, thanks. This is quite an interesting approach!