SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Recently, someone in my family was not able to get into their home PC with their password, and called for assistance. This means having to drive down to the machine to see what they are doing, and log in with the appropriate account that can reset that password. Work commitments preclude driving there right away to see what is happening, and I am trying to locate a remote access solution. If they were logged into the machine, I could use some sort of remote assistance tool, but that is not an option in this case. There is the possibility of setting up SSH or OpenVPN to access the machine via the Internet, but I am not certain leaving those tools running all the time is the smartest idea in this day and age.
What recommendations do the Soylent community have for securely managing a machine over the Internet when someone is not logged into it?
(Score: 1) by oregonjohn on Sunday April 30 2017, @08:31PM
NeoRouter, easy search, works for me. There is a free version. You create a server (probably on your own computer) then install clients with passwords on whomever you wish.
NeoRouter works on Linux and Windows, Mac, mobile, html5, in-a-box (the server that is), freeBSD. There is a paid mesh service available so the server is not stuck on one computer, the pro version offers a firewall and other options. The pro version is not that expensive and helps support their efforts. Not open source.
NeoRouter starts at boot so you can see the password screen on a client.
While they make it easy to have ip address of the server connect via a name, you can set your own server ipaddress instead. You can also change the default port if you wish.
Happy user, not affiliated with them.