remote in away from home

Beans on toast Dave · 21 Nov 2016 at 14:04

hi,

looking for a free way to remote into my server from away from home

what do most people use?

thanks

WYNIR0 · 21 Nov 2016 at 14:06

Teamviewer here.

Sp00n · 21 Nov 2016 at 14:07

Teamviewer for windows.

SSH for Linux.

Beans on toast Dave · 21 Nov 2016 at 14:12

is teamviewer free though? i thought it was a paid for licence

only going to use it once or twice a month if that

Sp00n · 21 Nov 2016 at 14:13

Free for personal use.

bledd · 21 Nov 2016 at 14:14

OpenVPN to router, then wake on lan packet to pc, then Remote Desktop (if using Windows Pro).

Or Teamviewer and leave the PC on.

Beans on toast Dave · 21 Nov 2016 at 20:33

thanks guys, been trying teamviewer, quite impressed

only thing i cannot force 1080p resolution as my microserver does not support it,
can do it with remoteing in via desktop at home

james.miller · 21 Nov 2016 at 20:36

try the vpn driver

joeyjojo · 22 Nov 2016 at 12:17

I wouldn't trust Teamviewer personally, it involves placing a lot of trust in them. Plenty of discussions on security.stackexchange e.g. http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12152/how-secure-is-teamviewer-for-simple-remote-support

If you do use teamviewer it's critical that you keep it up to date.

I use VNC over SSH. Free and open source software.

At the very least make sure whatever you use has a very strong password (e.g. random 20 chars) or even better a key (e.g. 2048 bit RSA).

DragonQ · 22 Nov 2016 at 12:41

TeamViewer is a quick and free solution. As others have said, not the most secure though. I personally have my own VPN set up on Windows Server 2012 so I can connect to that and use Remote Desktop on my other machines.

Sp00n · 22 Nov 2016 at 12:44

joeyjojo said:
I use VNC over SSH. Free and open source software.

Tunnel to a local linux machine and then vnc over to the windows box or?

Armageus · 22 Nov 2016 at 12:55

chrome remote desktop is another free option which works quite well.

Xez · 22 Nov 2016 at 13:45

I just use remote desktop providing it's Windows based using an obscure port along with Duo Security two factor authentication which is free for less than 10 users. If you don't have a static IP address I'm sure plenty of free dynamic DNS agents are available.

joeyjojo · 22 Nov 2016 at 14:39

Sp00n said:
Tunnel to a local linux machine and then vnc over to the windows box or?

I only ever need to go windows box at home -> work linux machine. I use putty and tigervnc. Putty in with a tunnel (-L 5901:localhost:5901 or whatever) then ask tigervnc to use localhost:1.

If I need to get onto a work windows machine I first do the above then use rdesktop.

Hyburnate · 22 Nov 2016 at 14:42

Can't beat VPN and RDP in my eyes, it's what I use at home, work and for many customers use this approach.

KIA · 22 Nov 2016 at 19:22

challengedavid said:
thanks guys, been trying teamviewer, quite impressed

http://www.howtogeek.com/257376/how-to-lock-down-teamviewer-for-more-secure-remote-access/

neodude · 23 Nov 2016 at 11:08

OpenVPN and VNC here

leigh_boy · 23 Nov 2016 at 11:15

i agree that vpn and rdp is the most secure, iv seen so many people put rdp on the public internet and get hacked.