It’s easily configured the first time, and once you’re done it a remote connection will hopefully look a bit like this: This is what a connection might look like. It can check a centralized server, so the host doesn’t need to know things like ports and passwords.

You’ll need to configure it on each device as well, allowing remote connections and setting up passwords as needed. Now, you’ll have to install TeamViewer on each device you want to manage and it’ll need to be installed on any device you wish to use to control the rest. That should pop up a window where can accept the license and keep on trucking. If you don’t have wget installed, you can do that with sudo apt install wget and then proceed with: Start by opening your terminal by pressing CTRL + ALT + T. I’ll explain how to install it with Debian/Ubuntu/etc, but you can easily install TeamViewer for other Linux package management systems. If you want something that is easy and just works, read on: Getting and Using TeamViewer: If you insist on opensource, this isn’t the tool for you. So, using the proprietary TeamViewer doesn’t bother me. I can use it to help friends and relatives by just talking to them long enough to get started.įrankly, VNC can be a pain in the butt to configure and my favorite VNC client (RealVNC) is proprietary. Sometimes I just want a GUI, as some things are best done in a GUI.īesides, TeamViewer is free for personal use, and I like TeamViewer because it just works, even over the world wide web without knowing an IP address. I can even forward SSH but not all applications work well with that. SSH is often adequate for anything I want to do, but not always. I have computers in my house that I seldom physically use, I manage them all remotely. I have quite a few devices, and remotely manage the majority of them.

Among the ways I do this, VNC is a nice way to do so graphically.īasically, remote administration software such as this forwards the remote desktop to a window on my local desktop and allows me the control as though I was physically seated at the device. Actually, it’d be a bit more accurate to say that I’m a pretty big fan of remotely managing devices. I’m a pretty big fan of VNC (Virtual Network Computing, from RealVNC). It’s a surprisingly handy application that just works. Today’s article is going to be about my latest favorite VNC alternative, TeamViewer.

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