I'm looking for an application similar to teamviewer to install on ubuntu 10.10.
I know that the teamviewer's staff has released a version for ubuntu, but I'd like to use something completely open.
Someone can help me?
Ubuntu – Remote Desktop similar to Teamviewer
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If you're planning on providing assistance to someone who is not very computer savvy, TeamViewer is going to make your life far easier. Yes, it is a closed-source commercial product – but the magical sensation you feel when establishing a connection using only an ID number makes it all well worth it.
For a while you might think you can pull off carefully setting up a VNC server and the required firewall/NAT rules to be ready for future support sessions, but it won't do you any good the day that your friend in need of assistance has changed their network setup or broken their server configuration by following some Hoary Hedgehog how-to.
It's pretty hard to get this part wrong:
With most of my clients, I don't even have them try to install TeamViewer. Session initiation looks like this:
- At teamviewer.com/download, click the button beneath "TeamViewer QuickSupport".
- Click Run.
- Read me the ID and password.
The package "xserver-xorg-video-dummy" appears to do what is required
Some details on setting it up in this question
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This page is a comparison of remote desktop software available for various platforms.
Comparison of remote desktop software
See Features column -> NAT Passthrough: the ability to connect to the server behind a NAT without configuring the router's port forwarding rules. It gives an advantage when you can not configure router (for example it is on Internet service provider's side), but is a serious security risk (unless the traffic is end-to-end encrypted), because all the traffic should pass through some proxy server which in most cases is owned by remote access application's writers.