I have a few family members that I help support. For instance, I installed Linux Mint on my grandmother's PC. She doesn't know any different and my young cousin doesn't understand it so he finally stopped giving it viruses. I used to use TeamViewer to take over her PC when she needed support but I got my account banned because they believed I was using it commercially. Oh well!
I have Tailscale installed on the computers. This gives me SSH access. What would you suggest? RDP? Something else?
VNC over SSH and you should be set.
You can forward the VNC port with a local port forward e.g
ssh -L $yourPort:localhost:$vncPort $grandmasMachine. Then open Remmina (or KRDC, or some other VNC client).I do hope your grandma has good upload speeds though.
Bless you for spreading the word of the penguin and being the support of your family. Props to you.
Thanks for the info and link.
I don't need any props. I'm not spreading any word. It's for selfish reasons. My grandparents only use the web browser, so they don't know/care what an OS is. The reason I did it in the first place (they've been running Linux Mint for almost 10 years now) was my cousin kept trying to install Minecraft Mods and giving them viruses. XD
I believe that Linux Mint supports RDP, built in. You just enable it in the System Settings. Is that not workable?
I hadn't tried it yet. I was just asking to get a census of what's popular before I dug in too deep.
Gotcha. As usual with Linux, there are lots of ways to crack the nut. I would be inclined to go with the built-in option, in this case. Less likely to break.
I use meshcentral to manage a few (like 6) computers and do remote assistance. Best solution for your usecase imo.
I looked at the documentation for that. It looks like exactly what I want. I'm between that and Rust Desk..
ssh is what I would use. You can setup X forwarding if your not that comfortable in the terminal.
Well, I want to be able to see the screen so that I can talk my grandma through stuff. I have fixed things through SSH and run updates that way too.
X forwarding should let you use GUI apps from the remote computer. Its not quite a full remote desktop experience though. You can see how to set up and use x forwarding on YouTube.