Selfhosted

You can tunnel RDP over SSH. Then you'd only open a port that requires authentication to access and is encrypted.

As far as security goes, 1 open port and 1000 open ports contain basically the same level of risk exposure to the internet- a hole will always be a hole. If you need to open a few more for rustdesk, just do it, and be diligent about your firewall rules.

I've used VNC inside my LAN before with decent results, and it doesn't break graphics drivers like windows RDP does. However, not FOSS.

I use NoMachine, but that's in a Linux-to-Linux environment.

Did a test last weekend sitting in a department store parking lot on the store's public wifi, wifi bitrate about 50Mbps both ways, 50ms between me and my homelab ... very very usable experience with quality set at 6/10.

I for one use and self-host Meshcentral. The GUI is ugly, but it works well.

At work we are using anydesk and boy... Even the paid Version isnt really better than the free one imho.

Rust is the next one i wanna try. About the opening ports. Maybe run it in a docker Container? For me a self hosted solutions also Sounds super nice and i gonna Look into it.

Edit: sorry for All the typos... Stupid phone and typing while walking xD

Are you doing the support for free? If so I would make another teamviewer account.

I’ve only heard of them asking for money if you connect to a computer with a paid account. Are you connecting to computers with paid teamviewer instances?

I personally use hop2desk for all of my remote access needs. Works wonderfully on any pc as well as on android! Best part is you dont need to dick with ports or anything like that, just make sure you set a good persistent password and you're good to go.

i use Tailscale on everything these days (or use Headscale if you want to self host the control plane). with the free plan you get up to 100 devices on a "tailnet", just set the right ACLs to only allow the remote connection ports of choice, pair it with self hosted RustDesk, and you should be good to go. the NAT traversal of Tailscale is pretty good from what i've observed, but sometimes you might get stuck on a relay (called a DERP) if it can't get across the firewall(s).

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