Remote Access Software

BillHicksRIP · 13 Jun 2015 at 21:39

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

BillHicksRIP · 13 Jun 2015 at 23:26

Cheers. £400 though.

BillHicksRIP · 13 Jun 2015 at 23:47

I'm up for trying anything. Did you follow a particular article to set that up?

BillHicksRIP · 14 Jun 2015 at 17:59

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.

Yup. I'd just gone straight to the pricing page. Will give the free one a go.

Thanks

BillHicksRIP · 15 Jun 2015 at 10:16

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?

BillHicksRIP · 15 Jun 2015 at 10:51

Ah, sorted it. You need to associate the machine with a TeamViewer account before you can do unattended access.