What would you use to remotely support a computer with "LAN" access? (programming.dev)

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I have a few family members that I help support. For instance, I installed Linux Mint on my grandmother's PC. She doesn't know any different and my young cousin doesn't understand it so he finally stopped giving it viruses. I used to use TeamViewer to take over her PC when she needed support but I got my account banned because they believed I was using it commercially. Oh well!

I have Tailscale installed on the computers. This gives me SSH access. What would you suggest? RDP? Something else?

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[-] disheveledWallaby@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I was curious about that as I haven't tried Wayland yet and its been a while since I've had any reason for an x session via ssh. Glad someone with first hand knowledge could chime in for OP and others as well as myself.

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I have heard they are either working on a similar thing for Wayland or already solved it.

This looks promising, but I have not used it before.

waypipe is a proxy for Wayland[0] clients. It forwards Wayland messages and serializes changes to shared memory buffers over a single socket. This makes application forwarding similar to ssh -X [1] feasible.

[0] https://wayland.freedesktop.org/ [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/OpenSSH#X11_forwarding

[-] disheveledWallaby@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

How quickly things progress. I'm stuck using X due to nvidia. All will get sorted in time. Thanks for the info!

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Yep that’s why I use KDE. It has nVidia support for Wayland.

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