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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: 2) by number6 on Wednesday July 08 2015, @01:07AM

    by number6 (1831) on Wednesday July 08 2015, @01:07AM (#206294) Journal

    GoToMyPC is mentioned here amongst many others...
    __https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software

    worth a look...
    Chromoting, aka 'Chrome Remote Desktop', allows one to remotely control a distant machine, all from within the Chromium browser.
    __https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromotingBuildInstructions
     
     
    Some other things not mentioned at Wikipedia...

    Guacamole - HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop
    __http://sourceforge.net/projects/guacamole/

    Java Remote Control - View and control a remote desktop over TCP/IP
    __http://code.google.com/p/java-remote-control/

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