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Not looking for things that are only trial or pro purpose, I use chrome remote desktop but I imagine there's better options?

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[-] otherbarry@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

Windows has its default Remote Desktop Connection that uses RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol), once enabled it will listen on port 3389. It is pretty solid and has a few features beyond VNC. Just be careful, you probably don't want to open that port onto the internet since every port scanner is scanning that port & looking for unpatched Windows vulnerabilities or insecure user/password logins.

I use RDP myself for my Windows system but I need to SSH into my network before using it, so it's really RDP over SSH. If you're not going to go through all that at the very least change the port to something else so it doesn't get port scanned to death.

.. TBH if you're not too sure about how to secure this stuff maybe Chrome Remote Desktop is the best option, at least it's secured behind your own Google account (hopefully that itself is secure and you have 2FA enabled).

[-] micahmo@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

Since you mentioned RDP over SSH, I thought you might be interested in this GUI tool I made to do just that.

https://github.com/micahmo/RDPoverSSH

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