[kwlug-disc] GUI Remote Access

[Paul Nijjar]

I did not know such a thing was possible. If it was (and you were not
port forwarding) then arbitrary traffic from some application would be
able to initiate incoming connections through your firewall.
That seems like a bad idea.

As far as I know TeamViewer makes this work by having a third server.
Both parties connect to this broker server with outbound connections.
Then once the connection is established I believe the broker is no
longer necessary.  You can mimic this with VNC and SSH (eg
https://github.com/pnijjar/remote-help ) . This works okay for remote
troubleshooting, but it does not offer a seamless experience for day
to day work.

- Paul 

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 03:10:00AM +0000, Andrew Stevanus wrote:
> Would anyone in this thread happen to know of a Free remote desktop
> solution that can do NAT passthrough (e.g. connecting to a desktop
> behind a router without port forwarding)? The only ways I know how to do
> this are TeamViewer (proprietary) and Chrome Remote Desktop (free, as
> far as I know, but depends on the proprietary Google Chrome and doesn't
> seem to work in Chromium; also requires a Google account).
> 

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