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Best remote control option to support non-techies
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Get an SSH tunnel working first.
That'll find all the problems poking holes through home routers, dynamic public IPs, etc.
Once you've got that part running, then you can look at VNC or... and hear me out... I just run the X11 apps remotely. So I'm opening their apps on my laptop, changing the config for their session and it's done.
I reconfigured Thunderbird that way when we moved email providers foe the family's email.
No need for VNC to transmit all their screen when just the app is needed 😉
I like the idea. But vnc helps with troubleshooting because you can see their screen and walk them through steps so they won’t have to call you again. Thats much harder without visuals because quickly everything becomes "this thing over there", frequently changing frame of reference.
Yep, totally agree... the right tool for the right job.