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Re: VNC like Freeware

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g.bon2 wrote:
<with attribution lines re-added>

> Poutnik wrote:
>
>> What is bad about TeamViewer or VNC ?
> 
> On what I've read, nothing is bad. But VNC seems to be repaced by
> RealVnc that is a paying software. TeamViewer also seems to need a
> paying license.

TightVNC and UltraVNC are still free.  Several remote programs are
listed at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software

Shows which ones are free for personal or business use.  Several are
variants of TightVNC; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TightVNC.  That
table says RealVNC is free for personal or business use.  RealVNC
(https://www.realvnc.com/products/vnc/) says their product is free for
personal use but it is crippled (but then you may not need the extra
features, especially if you never traverse outside your own intranet).
Instead of using their VNC view app, you can use their Google Chrome
add-on (but you still have to install the VNC server on each host to
which you want to remote connect).

Typically the difficulty in using VNC or its variants is in the setup.
You have to punch holes in your firewall (both software firewall on the
remoted host and in the router it uses), you have to redirect to your
VNC'ed host in the router, and you either need a static IP address (so
you can remember what it is) or use a DDNS (Dynamic DNS) service to
equate your current dynamically assigned IP address to a hostname (that
you can remember).  If you are only remoting within your subnet then you
don't have to bother with the firewall punching, router redirection, or
DDNS but you may want to configure your hosts to use static IP addresses
rather than have then change by them getting dynamic addresses from your
router's DHCP server.  Google has their own remoting add-on
(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp)
so I'm not sure if RealVNC has their own add-on or if they are merely
rebranding/redistributing the Google remoting add-on.  I don't use
Google Chrome so have no experience with either add-on.

You never mentioned if the remoting software is for personal or business
use.  TeamViewer does have a free personal-use license
(https://www.teamviewer.com/en/help/213-How-exactly-is-private-use-defined).
Softpedia.com lists TeamViewer as freeware.  According to their product
page at https://www.teamviewer.com/en/products/remotecontrol.aspx,
"TeamView is free for all non-commercial users".  It is NOT free for
business use.  If you are remoting to support clients or for work use
then you cannot use TeamViewer.  

LogMeIn used to have a personal service tier for free but that is gone
and they only have a trial now.  I used to use LogMeIn until they
discontinued their free service tier.  I don't remote often enough to
qualify paying for a remoting service.  Mikogo also used to have a free
service tier but that is gone (all they have now is a 14-day trial
period).  Guess they got popular enough that they no longer could afford
the load for their free service despite the client endpoints handle the
bandwidth while these remoting services only provide the initial lookup
and hookup (i.e., they're not involved in the actual connection between
the endpoints).

If you don't like setting up a VNC server and you don't like TeamViewer
then your remoting options are pretty limited, like using RDP included
in Windows (you also never mentioned the remote and local OSes).

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