Been using this for months, it's a really great piece of software. Performance is insanely good, and it deals really well with multi monitor setups too compared to other tools i've used. no matter if from mobile or laptop, it just does the job really well.
I have just renewed my TeamViewer License a few days ago. But I am still happy to know it was the last time. THANK YOU for making me discover this great software, and your channel.
I REALY like the way you explain every command. Most tutorials just say "Paste whatever there is in description and hope I am not trying to destroy your system" ;) Not everyone who will install this is using Linux every day and they may not know what the -R means or why you need to put "username:group" in a command etc.
Opposite for me. I figure if you don't know about the chown command, SSH keys or Docker, you probably shouldn't be fiddling around with something like this app. Really could have skipped that stuff.
@@shineymcshine And people are suposed to learn how? Those kind of videos that show you in practice how to use something and explain why something happens step by step are best for learning. And most of the time when you ask Linux related question on a forum you et one of 2 answers: 1. Use man 2. Google it ;)
@shineymcshine you really could have skipped that stuff. RU-vid provides you the tools to do so. Meanwhile those who need to see that stuff, can see that stuff because he takes the time to put it in as content.
Timing is everything! Love your videos and thanks for mentioning in the discord group. I cant wait to follow your step by step instructions this weekend when i have some downtime. Remotely is still awesome and with Rustdesk, a killer combination to have in my toolbox. Thank you Brian.
Nice! Looks the best alternative to TeamViewer so far. Looks exactly like TV. I'm looking for a solution hybrid between TV and Remotely. Where I and my coworkers can access their machines remotely. Like, having a dashboard as in Remotely and at the same time allowing people to connect using ID and Password.
This is definitely a great option. Make sure to check out the show notes for the Security aspects, so you can get everything setup properly and keep your machines safe.
Glad to find something similar to TeamViewer with a relay server I can host myself. There's still some kinks in the Android package regarding hostname resolution and private DNS. That aside, this is on the top of my list regarding new self hosted software.
Glad it's a solid option. Make sure to let the dev team know about the Android issues, and let them know you appreciate their efforts with a Github star, a nice comment, etc.
Love MeshCentral. I feel like MeshCentral serves a slightly different purpose to RustDesk. RustDesk to me is more client support (like call in and get someone connected), vs. MeshCentral which is really Remote Machine Management.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Yeah, thats true, but I treat most of my clients computers as managed machines. I install meshcentral just with the desktop access prompt. Most of my clients are either elderly people who just want it to be as easy as possible and fully trust me with technically always having access to their machine. And I obviously also have business customers and there I remotely manage all there machines anyways
Later versions of Docker Compose use 'docker compose' (with a space) instead of 'docker-compose', so if you're having trouble starting the server, try a space instead of a hyphen.
Indeed they do. This video is getting a bit old now, so was still using the older version at this point. Good news is I'll be doing an update video on Rustdesk soon.
This needs some protections against being used by scammers. For instance it should tell users where the person connecting is located. And it should _not_ have features such as blanking the user's screen or disabling their mouse and keyboard.
Yes it should. Working remotely to fix problems and the last thing needed is the end user jumping in. I've had countless times when I haven't disabled end user input (teamviewer feature) and the customer jumps on and starts doing stuff. Just because a feature can be abused doesn't mean it shouldn't be there.
I agree with both of these ideas. Yes, it sucks that scammers can also use these tools, but I love that these tools are available. Best thing to do is make the suggestion for enhancement on the Github for Rustdesk.
I love your videos, thank you. I don't follow all of your instructions, but I watch what you do and see the features and if it is what I need or just want. I add it to my lab. Thank you for all of this. As being a sysadmin and searching for good softwares is hard to come by. But you show some of the best if not the best. Thank you.
You can also enable direct IP access - and you don't need your own server for "local" connections over your local network. You are using IP address instead of ID during connection. I'm using this to manage kids computers around the house. But sometimes things don't work as expected - for example pressing enter or backspace doesn't work for some remote applications. Anyway perfect piece of software!
Indeed for local it's even easier if you want it to be. I wanted to show the full server setup as it's helpful for folks who may need to access machines when away from home, for family, etc. But direct IP is absolutely possible as well.
Ive been using RD for past 3 months or so, and its fantastic, this is my go to remote desktop tool, not using TV anymore. We deployed RD to all our corporate mac laptops and have our own relay server.
That is awesome! It's great to own your own data and security. Make sure to drop a few bucks on their donation site from your company if you can...keep RustDesk open and going. Best!
Glad you like the video. You can certainly use a reverse proxy for this if the proxy can deal with ports outside of 80 and 443. In my case, I just port forwarded on my home router to the vm I run this on in docker.
This is way better than Remotely. Gonna give it a shot. The only thing I see that it doesn't have is unattended access. Edit: I've contacted the developer to see if they could do a modified version of the Rustdesk exe for Windows to auto-connect to my server instead of explaining to everyone how to change the connection server. Also, there is no way I see to do actions on the remote computer like Ctrl + Alt + Del.
Yeah you can just remember the password for the machine or enter it each time. And at the top there are some special actions in a lightning bolt icon I believe, when you are connected.
@@AwesomeOpenSource have you figured out the Address Book yet? It asks for a username and password, yet I don't have it. There is nothing on their website about either.
Been using nightly for a while now, because I had key repeat issues using linux as controlling side. I was surprised at how well it works with Android. Total control. Works great.
this is great! The only problem with self hosted is, that it is harder to setup the client on the endusers side (especially over the phone). So it's not rlly suited for remote techsupport.
For the Windows users (still the vast majority of users), in their docs they tell you to change the client file name to include the server address, and the encryption key, thus when it's run / installed on the client machine it automatically uses your self hosted server. May that will help you with this. Would love to see the same option for Linux.
It doesn't have to be, if these devs were smart there would be a way to preconfigure the binaries you send to your grandmother to contact your servers. These devs are so busy figuring out how to get you to pay $120/year to self host they can't see the simple solutions.
AFAIK you need to specify a key in your relay settings for it to use encryption. From the docs: "If you did not fill in the Key: (the content in the public key file id_ed25519.pub) in the previous step, it does not affect the connection, but the connection cannot be encrypted."
That’s correct, I believe I say that in the video at some point as well. I don’t show the file, but did mention it when talking about the client fields.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Could you do a very short video on the encryption piece? The example in the RustDesk Manual does not look like the data in the pub file
I've had no problem whatsoever with the setup and the connection is pretty fast, I shall say. I've tried (almost) all of the commercial RDP tools that are out there, but this particular open source software suits my needs in the best way possible. thank you for uploading this video, you're a great man!
This is cool. Hopefully, it gets even faster with a better compression algorithm. Supporting multiple monitors would be great. Thanks for sharing the video.
its really good, fast and finally open source, for team viewer replacement its going to need that address book, maybe a rolling code password, and to work on terminal servers as thats important for teamviewer :)
It is indeed. I have had no issues with it so far on a Kubuntu 22.04 system, but haven't tried it on any others yet. I know some folks have reported some problems, but I hope they'll continue to refine it and make it available.
wow thank you im useing rustdesk im a linux user i want to thank you i love it this rust desk really works well for being free thank you very much its also very easy to use very easy more easer than any sever networks iv used iv connected all my computers and its freee
I've been looking for a more affordable option for one of my GoToMeeting clients (his choice, not mine) since he's between jobs at the moment. And while he now has trouble affording the GTM subscription, he still very much needs help with his job-hunting efforts and other misc. tasks. He's a non-tech-savvy older gentleman and Rustdesk looks like an easy-to-use alternative for him. Plus, it means I can avoid the janky GTM web interface on my Linux laptop when I'm on the go. Thanks for sharing! 👍
except that he showed NOT "fully open source" it was partly open, partly closed source. The address book is compiled into the binaries, but the source code does not include it. If you pay for license, you cannot compile it yourself, you have to use binaries, and then you also have to host and maintain it, and for that privilege you get to pay them $120/year. No thanks.
That's my biggest problem with Wayland. There are really no options for remote management of Wayland enabled Linux machines. Since wayland has been around quite some time, there's really no excuse for removing that kind of functionality from that graphics API.
Actually, RustDesk now supports Wayland with no issues from what I've seen. It's been able to do it for about a year now I think. Definitely give it a shot.
@@AwesomeOpenSource I stand corrected. I have been as of yet unable to find a solution that allows me to work with Wayland and abled Linux desktops. I have quite a few of these as well as some windows machines as well, and I have already been able to install a copy of Russ desk on a Windows machine and a Solus Linux desktop That is Wayland and abled. I was able to successfully connect both ways. So thank you for the kind advice. Kudos to you sir.
We've been self-hosting ScreenConnect out of data-center for over a decade, we pay yearly for maintenance on Screen-Connect to access updates/patches and honestly haven't found anything better thus far.
If a tool works well for you, and you don't have an urgent need to switch, then I say use it. If, however, you decide you might want to try something new, and roll it out slowly, then check out some Open Source options.
Just tested the Windows client and it looks like it first runs as a portable app, with the in-app option to fully install it. Great for one-off assistance tasks.
One very good reason to ditch TeamViewer. I would support them more if they didn't have such scummy marketing tactics but honestly RustDesk is a very good 1:1 replacement!
Indeed. For LAN use, feel free to use my video as a template, but if you'll be using it over internet, definitely check out the docs on setting up the encryption key as well. It's just a key in a file on the server you want to copy and put in each client. rustdesk.com/docs/en/self-host/install/#key
I didn't find it at all complicated considering you can setup and run the server, and own the entire infrastructure. If you're looking for a simple download anad go, then a hosted option will be best.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Official server is too lag to use here in Brazil. It's really complicated. I would that is almost impossible. Not only me, on Discord every day show up someone aks for help and giving up later because it's very close to impossible. It should be really easy. Just a .EXE installer, 1 config page and done. Just like any other program.
Thanks for the video, I'm a first time viewer and new subscriber. I never heard of this to before this video and although it's a little more involved to get setup than the time I have available at the moment, I do plan to revisit. Thanks and God bless 🤓
Great video and I have it saved as I'll want to come back in the future and set up a server. I've been using Rustdesk for about 3 months. I have one windows 11 machine that won't seem to allow me to do unattended connect. I have to have that person click Accept. All my windows 10 machines let me connect unattended. I like Rustdesk's display better than Anydesk.
That’s pretty neat that it’s open source and can be self hosted. I use RDM even though it isn’t open source, it has so much capability that it’s basically impossible to find an alternative.
Brilliant! I installed into my debian linode vps, works like a charm! I haven't used the script because I already had docker, just manually installed compose and adjust the iptables rules. Thank you, veeeeeeery useful!!!! The footprint is very low, my vps has only 1 core and 1 Gb RAM, no need for more. The advantage is the vps bandwith which is like 5 gbps. So, in order to use an encrypted connection I suppose that the key should be used into both clients, right? Thanks again man!
Glad it's working, make sure to check out the folow up I just release on the security side. I didn't go into enough detail on the first video, and people have mentioned it in the comments, so make sure to check it out.
Correct, I mention this in the video. The key is stored on the server when you create it. The file is called id_some-identifier.pub. You copy the contents of that file into the key field. Definitely something you should look into to run this across the net.
Even more important! You installed an open rust server anyone can use! The standard restrictions are that other users can only use unencrypted sessions since they don't have your server key. You need to use the command line option "-k _"!
And if you connect to another computer on the same network it looks like it sets you up with a direct connection (when using your own server anyway)...very cool
So glad i've found your channel ! Rich content that we can really use. By the way is there any opensource alternative to RDS and RCB (remote connection broker) ?
Check out RPort shownotes.opensourceisawesome.com/rport-remote-machine-management/ and MeshCentral ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pGBIjBGqlfI.html. Those may be what you're looking for.
There's problems with your installer, as of 2022-07-10 working from the net-installer version of Debian 11.3. 1> Need to make sure lsb-release is installed. 2> Need to make sure sure curl is installed. 3> I don't know if I ran into Portainer problems because of the above issues, but I had to restart portainer by running [ docker stop {id} ] then [ docker start {id} ] as root. (Later I find out that there's some kind of timer on the initial setup even before getting logged in for the first time which kills the portainer instance)
I want to know if that web portal @31:16 is some sort of pre-canned dashboard I can setup for my own home lab. I have never seen that one before. (Edit: oh and I just discovered your channel... so far I like your content. Subscribed!)
No, you must pay for the license to obtain it, and that source code is missing from the repository. If you buy a license you must accept running precompiled binaries on your system that has the address book and possibly malicious code. In otherwords, partly open source, until you pay $120 a year to host it all yourself and maintain it. What a rip off. They claim only business users would want/need an address book which is pure BS I am personal and would need it too. I have many many computers, and get banned from Anydesk/Teamviewer because they claim wrongly that I am a business. Basically strong arming me to buy a business license when I am not a business. I decided go eff yourselves and uninstalled. When I asked about this, they not only closed the ticket, they locked it from anyone else being able to view it, because they were getting pushback on their stupid licensing scheme. When I opened another ticket under "ask a question" they then removed the "ask a question" as an option from the issue ticket database. They are censoring the licensing talks because people keep questioning it and they're so petty they're removing contact options.
Great tool. Thanks for making this type of videos. Everytime i come to this channel, i find a new cool piece of software to play with (and use it). Did you get the Addressbook working?
HI Brian, very informative video. I wanted to ask an unrelated question though. How do you open ports on your machine to public? My ISP has ports blocked and they are quite resistant towards any port opening requests. Not sure what can I do about it.
If all ports are blocked by the ISP, then you'll have to use an inexpensive VPS like DigitalOcean, Linode, etc; or setup a VPN like Wireguard that can call out to a server without port forwarding. You could use something like TailScale for that.
Hi. Thanks to you, I am using RustDesk to help my family and friends. I like to step up now and I have signed up for the Oracle cloud free tear. I installed ubuntu and installed Rust desk self hosted. However, since I like to use that Oracle server for more services and docker stacks, I like to use Nginx Reverse Proxy. The situation I have now is that I dont know how to forward all the needed ports also for the security part of it. Any chance you can create a small tutorial how to use Nginx for services that run several ports for a single app/self hosted server? Thanks i advance anyway.
I think you can try to proxy those ports, but you need to add more entries in the 2nd tab of NGinX proxy Manager (Custom Locations). I haven't tried it myself, but I think it should work.
Thank you Brian. I assume that remembering the password is pretty much like unattended access. What about Privacy mode where the remote screen goes black or goes to the lock screen once we have connected. Similar to what happens when using Microsoft's Remote desktop.
For remote access, I have been prompted when the desktop locks, or is not yet logged on for a user, and I have been able to enter login credentials. Can't say that will always be the case, but so far it seems to work fine for me.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Would be nice if we had the option to have the remote desktop immediately go to the lock screen upon initial connection. There are times when the person sitting on the remote side need not see what tasks are being performed by the host (me in this case) 😁
@@PeterBatah If you'd seen the tech support scammers do their thing, you wouldn't say that. Screen blanking is a terrible feature used primarily by scammers in Kolkata.
There is no way this can be used to support someone on Wayland. If you're capable of talking them through switching to X11 then you don't need remote desktop in the first place.
I understand, it's not wayland capable today, but hopefully in the future it will be, and to tell someone to log out, and then log back in by selecting a different option, vs. walking them through fixing a messed up configuration file, or typing a bunch of stuff into the terminal to figure out what's really wrong....I'd say I could easily get them to switch if necessary.
@@AwesomeOpenSource If you can easily get them to do that then I expect they don't even need you to remotely log in. What you described sounds like a massive challenge liable to leave them with no desktop.
Another great open-source tool. Thanks for introducing this gem to us. My question is can I just test it using my Fedora machine with docker or should I have to adhere to your script which forces us to use the operating systems listed up there? Thanks again!
This all is in desperate need of being templated and deployed using Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi. That'd wrap this up nicely and make it more polished instead of looking a bit mom-n-pop shop.
Hey, great video :) One question on the windows side, are you able to access UAC prompts? So when you need to install i.E. some software, often windows security pops up and asks if you really want to install it (or asks for credentials)
@@AwesomeOpenSource many companies could actually save tons of cash and improve security and privacy by using Linux and open source. an entire state here in Germany banned Microsoft 365 out of schools unless it can be proven it's usable GDPR compliant. Good luck on that..... Another state announced starting plans to get away from Microsoft and US tech giants and one other is already working on that for years now
For this, you really just need the ports 21115 through 21119 forwarded through your firewall to the server. Several TCP, and I believe 21116 is UDP an dTCP.
Hi Brian. Two quick questions--hopefully you can help out. 1) Can Rustdesk be set up for concurrent use--for instance, if we have two users both accessing the same Windows machine at the same time? 2) Also, is it possible to try this app out using Rustdesk's in house servers before committing to a server of our own?
@@AwesomeOpenSource Thanks for that info, Brian! It seems to make sense to try it out first before spending time getting a personal server set up. I might try contacting the company direct on my first question. Thanks again.
I am finishing up setting up RustDesk as a daemon so that it starts via systemd on startup. If anyone wants info on this for linux reply here and suggest a forum for further discussion. I am probably going to post a howto in the linux mint forum after a while.
That is awesome!. You might also post it to the RustDesk team to look into for the application / appimage itself. And feel free to post it on a channel over at discuss.opensourceisawesome.com
@@AwesomeOpenSource I have tried to get on your discuss server and for some reason I cannot get on it. I would love to share everything I have so far. I have it now setup as a service so the server starts whenever there is a reboot or crash of the software via systemd. I am now going thru opening it up to the www. I am a bit worried about port attacks on the server end. So, I am looking at fail2ban a bit. :) I will try and get on your server again. Some reason it does not like me :(
If you want to access it via the internet, I highly recommend looking at their instructions for using the encryption key as well. You can find it in their docs here. rustdesk.com/docs/en/self-host/install/#key As for the open ports, you do have some risk if running it on your home lab, but you can choose which ports to open, and set them accordingly in the docker-compose file. Not really mitigation, but this is how the client softwrae communicates to the server.
@@AwesomeOpenSource I have been looking for something like this for over a year as I bleed to TV. Iam using the pub key combo setup during install. I am not going to run it in a docker but on possibly a VM like I am now or just bare metal. I have a HP 350 server in the role of a firewall. Currently, I use TV for my company. I just wonder how secure the ports are from being hacked. I understand that rust is pretty resilient. Just wondering about any security hardening that should be done. I want to thank you very much for your video and I have now subscribed to your channel. I will donate to 'the cause' of course as long as it does not get abandoned. That would leave me in a spot.
I guess it depends on how much you are making using these tools. It's always an ROI calculation in the end. The OSS version is free to use, but you get more features on the paid version. If you need those features, then it may be worth it.
This is great. I want to set it up for my company. Like TeamViewer, but we need access to remote machines (without the client giving us something) from an address book is this a thing?
I would say if you are looking for an RMM (Remote Machine Management) check out my latest video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DZ0Ocwga43w.html where I compare 4 open source tools for this, and see if you like one of the others better.
I use Dashy for that. Here are a couple of videos on it: Install and Setup Dashy: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QsQUzutGarA.html Dashy Widgets: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dyur-NDngBc.html
Wicked video. got this working inside my network. But trying to get this work through KEMP load balancer and cloudflare proxy. Any recommandations or video on who one might get this setup?
I just show you how to setup the software. I'd suggest you make your request at the rustdesk github page. They are pretty good to keep track of new feature and enhancement requests.
