Hello! Thanks for all the replies; indeed the first option I found when searching for alternatives was AnyDesk; however it falls under the same scope as TeamViewer, of limiting free usage (as in "free beer") for "personal usage" while charging for "commercial" use. As much as I don't want to, I might have to go with the VPN option. Which might be troublesome since some of these systems are located in remove areas (literally - like the middle of the Amazon forest or high up in the Andes Mountain Range). Cheers, Francisco -- []'s, Francisco M Neto GPG: 4096R/D692FBF0 On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 20:39 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 17.04.2019 18:35, Francisco M Neto wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > At work, we have several computers that are located at different > > locations throughout the country. Some of them are highly inaccessible by > > usual > > means, and it requires a certain planning to reach them to have direct > > access. > > Therefore, we have been using TeamViewer software to access those machines > > remotely. > > > > However, the "powers that be" have decided that TeamViewer is not worth > > the investment on a commercial license for unrestricted use, and therefore I > > have been asked to find a replacement. > > > > Do any of you good fellows know of some software (or service for that > > matter) that might perform the same task? Regular VNC (e.g. tigervnc) is not > > quite enough, since each site runs inside the infrastructure of other > > people, > > and therefore we do not have control over their networking environment; some > > of > > the have real IPs, and others are behind firewalls and NATs, which render a > > regular direct connection impossible. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Francisco > > > If your aim is to get one, completely free of charge, software for remote > access to your "mixed bag" of hosts and environments, then I'm pretty sure > you're out of luck. > You will have to pick from many different solutions, for each remote > environment and each host and manage them all by yourself. > TeamViewer and AnyDesk are probably the only solutions (at least trustworthy) > that could run on multiple OS and allow remote access by IDs, instead of IPs, > which is essential in your use-case. > There are other less trustworthy and secure solutions available, like "Ammyy > Admin" and "AeroAdmin", but they look and feel really sloppy and have many > feature limitations. > > There is also a possibility of creating tunnel VPN connections from each host > to one VPN server (remote hosts will initiate connections), so you will be > able to access different networks and hosts on them over the Internet. > This is of course depends on how strict firewalls on remote locations will be, > but if you will go that route, you can use essentially any remote management > software you like. > For that case, personally I recommend NoMachine, which could be used for free, > on any major OS and also it is the only remote desktop solution in the World > that allows you to authenticate by private-key. > I think, you can achieve this by using OpenVPN, since it is less firewall > dependent than IPSec. > > >
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