On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 10:56 AM Freek de Kruijf <freek@opensuse.org> wrote:
Op maandag 28 november 2022 10:16:36 CET schreef Roger Oberholtzer:
I have a situation where a user has a computer that they only have a private IP address for (ISP assigned). My computer is at work and also has a private IP address.
Using TeamViewer, I can access the remote computer's desktop.
My question is: is there an open source program that can accomplish the same thing? I suspect that TeamViewer works because it has a server that can be contacted and, I assume, set up a tunnel or whatever it does. I don't have such a server with a public IP address.
This is something that I only do occasionally. So I don't want to buy a bunch of TeamViewer licenses if I do not need to.
Any ideas?
Did you read https://www.techotopia.com/index.php/ Remote_Access_to_the_openSUSE_Linux_Desktop
That's useful but rather generic access. It does not address doing this when the remote system does not have a public IP address (and is not on your local network). The desktop server is somewhere in Portugal and I am behind a company firewall. No access (desktop, ssh, etc) is possible. TeamViewer has been working. But it is not free for a business. We don't mind paying some. But for this use the TeamViewer license is rather expensive. -- Roger Oberholtzer