Windows:teamviewer & its Linux Counterpart?

[nujinini]

Hello Everybody!

I was talking to a friend who suggested that I install teamviever ver.5 on my laptop. According to her, it would allow a contact to control my mouse & desktop online and vise versa. She overheard that somebody was trying to ask for help regarding the linux (mandirva) machine I installed in their PC and as we were trying to sort our schedules, she suggested that we consider installing and using teamviewer instead of me physically going to their house to check the PC. They use it in their company and it allows them to manipulate their peers desktop online even if they are in other countries since they also work with people around the world.

However, when I tried to install teamviewer, it think it was made exclusively for windows environment. So, it seems...

May I please ask if somebody is aware of a linux counterpart of the said program?

Thanks for any info guys! Have a wonderful day!

[Rubberman]

I don't know about TeamViewer per se, but I use VNC all the time to do just that - remote view/control of Windows systems from Linux. There are a number of implementations of the protocol suite client and server including commercial/proprietary and FOSS ones. They are interoperable, so using a commercial server on the PC will still allow you to use an open source viewer on the Linux system.

[benjamin20]

ya windows has a lot of these remote desktop connection programs, all of witch have the dumbest names and basically same function, gotomypc, is one of them, look at that name, ugly as hell, i couldn't imagine working at that company, saying that name all the time, ugh.

linux has 2 major ways of doing it, vnc as mentioned, which is suppose to be some way of directly loading a desktop screen to another computer, i have no real experience with that, the other, which i think is just super duper neeto (...) is using ssh, ssh basically lets you log into another computer like it was your own system, it gives you a command prompt of a user on the remote system, supposing you log into them accoringly and such, im pretty shure it goes

ssh user@machine-ip
password:

now your logged into the remote machine, you can give ssh certain flags to allow a xserver connection alongside it so you could just issue the command of a gui program and the x calls will be sent to your computer, its like taking that window and plopping it in your desktop, your window manager will draw the window frame but their gtk or qt theme would be used for the contents of the window, since the program is running on their maching. also there is a command to compress all transmitted data, almost necessary for the x window stuff.

[nujinini]

Hello Again!

SOme Linuxians in our city mentioned yuuguu? Anybody tried this one already? Thanks

Yuuguu - Download Desktop Application - Linux

[Rubberman]

Hello Again!

SOme Linuxians in our city mentioned yuuguu? Anybody tried this one already? Thanks

Yuuguu - Download Desktop Application - Linux

Just a quick look at their web site indicates that it is a desktop conferencing/sharing system much like WebEx. This is a very different kettle of fish from something like VNC, Windows Desktop Sharing, GoToMyPC, et al. First, there is a monthly per/user fee. Second, all I/O goes thru their servers on the Web. For my $$ (none) and time (a lot), VNC is the hands-down winner mainly due to its cost (free) and availability on just about every system platform out there (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc). On a Linux server, you can set it up so that when people log in, an desktop GUI is started on the server and the VNC client is connected to that, or a VNC client can connect directly to the main GUI, or a VNC client on the server can connect and control a client system. I use it all these ways. However, if I wanted a number of people to share a desktop for a presentation, demonstration, tutorial, etc. when people were most likely not in the same locale, then something like yuuguu or webex would be the appropriate solution, not VNC, and vice versa.

[Freston]

Teamviewer is a bit different than plain VNC.

It uses a website between 'server' and 'client', and travels over port 80. Basically, Alice on the server side starts teamviewer and this connects to whatever it is that it connects to. Alice then gets an ID and a password. Bob on the client side enters ID and password, and can now take over Alices desktop.

This makes life Real Easy if Alice is behind a NAT, as no port forwarding needs to be setup or IP addresses exchanged. Anyone who has ever tried to help their parents with a network problem over the phone will agree that this is hell.

I don't know any Linux equivalent. It's all mighty proprietary, although as a service it's free (as in beer) for consumers.

[tonev]

you can use teamviewer on linux too
i have tested it it works

[nujinini]

First, there is a monthly per/user fee. Second, all I/O goes thru their servers on the Web. For my $$ (none) and time (a lot), .

Ooops, I didn't notice this . I thought it was for free.

[nujinini]

you can use teamviewer on linux too
i have tested it it works

Hello and welcome tonev!

Really?

May I ask whats your OS please and where you got to download?

Thanks!

[Rubberman]

I just looked on the TeamViewer web site, and only find downloads for Windows and Mac. Are you running on Linux with Wine? Anyway, it's proprietary/commercial software, but at least it's free for personal use.