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BillHicksRIP

BillHicksRIP

BillHicksRIP

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Hi. I'm looking to access my home servers remotely so I can play with them from work. I've got a few ESXI hosts running a mixture of Windows and Linux guests attached to my home network connected via BT infinity. I've got a Win 2012 DC that I was thinking as a likely candidate to install some remote access software on and then SSH around from there. What do you guys for this? Thanks
 
I set up the VPN through my router (Asus RT-N66U) so I'm not too sure on that part as I'd imagine you'll have a different setup. But once that is done then the rest should be fairly easy, you can use remote desktop connection as if you were on the local network.
 
Archeum said:
Fast and simple setup - teamviewer
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+1 for this good reliable and simple. its not perfect but i find it hard to fault tbh

other wise from a learning expirence i would suggest : what andy_mk3 said :
andy_mk3 said:
Can you not use RDS through a VPN? That's how I do it.
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you'll learn a few extra things in the process.
depening on your position at work though you may need to have Ports open to allow the vpn connection and i guess your on static ip at home?
 
Emo_hug said:
+1 for this good reliable and simple. its not perfect but i find it hard to fault tbh

other wise from a learning expirence i would suggest : what andy_mk3 said :
you'll learn a few extra things in the process.
depening on your position at work though you may need to have Ports open to allow the vpn connection and i guess your on static ip at home?
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I don't have a static IP so use DDNS, and have never needed to open up any ports.
 
memyselfandi said:
Where did you get that from? Teamviewer is free for personal, non-commercial, use which you imply in the OP this is because they are (a) at home and (b) you are "playing" with them.
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Exactly the setup I use. Teamviewer in a personal form for connecting to home PCs and ESX clients running on my little microserver.
 
Emo_hug said:
+1 for this good reliable and simple. its not perfect but i find it hard to fault tbh

other wise from a learning expirence i would suggest : what andy_mk3 said :
you'll learn a few extra things in the process.
depening on your position at work though you may need to have Ports open to allow the vpn connection and i guess your on static ip at home?
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Use SSTP, runs over 443 and built in to RRAS.
 
Bit puzzled by TeamViewer. It's installed on a 2012 DC and set up for unattended access and is installed as a service. I cannot get the TeamViewer client on my PC to connect to the VM without also being RDP'd onto the VM and the screen not being minimised.

The message I get is:

"The screen cannot be captured at the moment. This is probably due to fast user switching or a disconnect/minimized Remote Desktop session".

As soon as I disconnect, log off or minimize the RDP session to the VM, TeamViewer locks up with the above message until I unminimize the RDP session?
 
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