Hello!
Thanks for all the replies; indeed the first option I found when
searching for alternatives was AnyDesk; however it falls under the same scope as
TeamViewer, of limiting free usage (as in "free beer") for "personal usage"
while charging for "commercial" use.
As much as I don't want to, I might have to go with the VPN option.
Which might be troublesome since some of these systems are located in remove
areas (literally - like the middle of the Amazon forest or high up in the Andes
Mountain Range).
Cheers,
Francisco
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Francisco M Neto
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On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 20:39 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> On 17.04.2019 18:35, Francisco M Neto wrote:
> > Greetings!
> >
> > At work, we have several computers that are located at different
> > locations throughout the country. Some of them are highly inaccessible by
> > usual
> > means, and it requires a certain planning to reach them to have direct
> > access.
> > Therefore, we have been using TeamViewer software to access those machines
> > remotely.
> >
> > However, the "powers that be" have decided that TeamViewer is not worth
> > the investment on a commercial license for unrestricted use, and therefore I
> > have been asked to find a replacement.
> >
> > Do any of you good fellows know of some software (or service for that
> > matter) that might perform the same task? Regular VNC (e.g. tigervnc) is not
> > quite enough, since each site runs inside the infrastructure of other
> > people,
> > and therefore we do not have control over their networking environment; some
> > of
> > the have real IPs, and others are behind firewalls and NATs, which render a
> > regular direct connection impossible.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Francisco
> >
> If your aim is to get one, completely free of charge, software for remote
> access to your "mixed bag" of hosts and environments, then I'm pretty sure
> you're out of luck.
> You will have to pick from many different solutions, for each remote
> environment and each host and manage them all by yourself.
> TeamViewer and AnyDesk are probably the only solutions (at least trustworthy)
> that could run on multiple OS and allow remote access by IDs, instead of IPs,
> which is essential in your use-case.
> There are other less trustworthy and secure solutions available, like "Ammyy
> Admin" and "AeroAdmin", but they look and feel really sloppy and have many
> feature limitations.
>
> There is also a possibility of creating tunnel VPN connections from each host
> to one VPN server (remote hosts will initiate connections), so you will be
> able to access different networks and hosts on them over the Internet.
> This is of course depends on how strict firewalls on remote locations will be,
> but if you will go that route, you can use essentially any remote management
> software you like.
> For that case, personally I recommend NoMachine, which could be used for free,
> on any major OS and also it is the only remote desktop solution in the World
> that allows you to authenticate by private-key.
> I think, you can achieve this by using OpenVPN, since it is less firewall
> dependent than IPSec.
>
>
>
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