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Ask Soylent: Alternatives to GoToMyPC with a Linux Friendly Client

posted by n1 on Tuesday July 07 2015, @09:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-wrong-with-telnet? dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

My company has switched from using a Cisco VPN to GoToMyPC for remote access. I suspect that GoToMyPC has improved auditing features that appeals to management. No matter how hard I try, I cannot seem to get GoToMyPC to work under Linux Mint. I even tried switching to Oracle Java 8. Each case boils down to Java finding that GoToMyPC's universal viewer client is unsafe or insecure. I can only imagine that it isn't appropriately sandboxed -- which also makes me wonder if my company can do some remoting of their own.

I have contacted technical support, who basically told me GoToMyPC isn't supported for Linux and that if their "universal viewer" applet didn't work for me -- then there are no workarounds. At this point I plan to run Windows in a VM just for GoToMyPC client.

Has anyone used GoToMyPC on linux with a recent flavor of Java? Perhaps with Wine? Are there any corporate friendly remote desktop solutions that play well with Linux at home? I'd like to be able to suggest an alternative!

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by rts008 on Tuesday July 07 2015, @09:40PM

    by rts008 (3001) on Tuesday July 07 2015, @09:40PM (#206232)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH_NMJ5QRBM/ [youtube.com] : youtube vid on how to use with Firefox(and Palemoon, etc)
    https://glenndcitrix.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/gotomypc-and-linux/ [wordpress.com] : two ways to do it-written instructions

    In short, it involves Wine, Firefox w/ User Agent Switcher extension, Java 6 runtime, and icedtea java plug-in.

    Can't imagine it would be different in other distro's.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2015, @02:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2015, @02:51AM (#206317)

    I tried this as it seemed promising. Installed wine, wintricks, exported WINEARCH=win32 because it looks like there is a dotnet dependency... No dice for me: gosetup.exe only gives an option to Uninstall ... a younger poorer version of me might spend more time on this.