I have an old pc on which I run jellyfin and some other stuff. It’s only connected through lan. I used to use window’s remotedesktop to connect to it, but that stopped working.

Now I’m looking for a good remote desktop. Because it s tucked away in a corner, fysical acces to it is cumbersome.

My server runs mint with xfce. My laptop runs windows 11, because of work reasons.

I’m inclined to use something like anydesk, but I’m unsure how to trust that company.

Edit: I got rustdesk up and running and it’s a good solution for my usecase. Thanks for all the tips and suggestions.

  • eli@lemmy.worldEnglish
    104·
    3 days ago

    Install Tailscale on all devices.

    Then ssh into whatever you need.

    If you need desktop remote access the Windows RDP should work for Windows to Windows machines.

    For Linux host to Windows client I’ve had good experiences with Remmina Desktop.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46·
      3 days ago

      I hate having to continuously point this out, but DO NOT DO THIS unless you have a deeper understanding of networking.

      “Just installing Tailscale” without proper configuration of the default routes is going to cause all kinds of routing inefficiencies and loopbacks in your internal network that is absolutely unnecessary, especially for what OP asking for.

      This is just bad advice.

        • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          Well, firstly, it’s not what Tailscale is meant for. I’m getting downvoted by the people using the wrong tool for the wrong job.

          You don’t install a VPN on all your local machines just to talk to each other. That’s insane. You especially don’t install one that, while misconfigured, is sending all of its traffic OUTSIDE of your local network, then back in. This is what Tailscale on a number of local machines will do by default.

          The way Tailscale works is by installing a Wireguard client on a machine. It then checks in with their DERP servers to figure out it’s network situation (behind NAT, peers in the network, routing tables…etc). So when you have more than one client on the Tailscale network, it automagically assumes some things, the first being that these two machines dont have a more direct route to talk to each other.

          So then it will attempt to bridge a path between the DERP server each client is checked into, and pass traffic that way. Which means you then have two machines on the same local network sending traffic OUTSIDE of that network, then back in to complete a VPN network.

          This is stupid.

          You setup multiple different networks and use exit nodes to bridge two networks together with Tailscale. That’s the entire point. This means setting up routes to let the orchestration layer know that a set of certain machines exist in the same network, and shouldn’t use Tailscale to communicate with each other. Then it will only be using routes for REMOTE networks, where other clients exist, to pass traffic over the Tailscale network.

          May I ask what you were planning on doing with Tailscale? I can point you in the right direction.

      • Decipher0771@lemmy.caEnglish
        71·
        3 days ago

        Last I checked Tailscale is Canadian actually….but maybe they got bought out somewhere??

        • comrade_twisty@feddit.orgEnglish
          92·
          3 days ago

          My bad, sorry Canadians!

          I just read a thread on hackernews where a bunch of Europeans where switching to netbird because of migration away from US tech, so I guess that was a mistake on their part.

          • dudesss@lemmy.caEnglish
            23·
            3 days ago

            The Hackernews company gets shit on a lot by Lemmy and Reddit. From my understanding, they have a lot of bad people who run the company.

            I would just use Lemmy and Reddit instead.