Comment on Teamviewer Terminates Perpetual Licenses
Armand1@lemmy.world 1 month agoBeen using them for years.
It’s completely free, open source and has:
- Unsupervised (for headless servers) or supervised (helping out relatives) access
- Easily file transfers
- Cross-copy paste
- Identification server (what gives out connection IDs) can be self-hosted or you can use theirs for free
- Can control PCs from mobile app (though not vide versa)
- Experimental web browser client.
chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Sorry, just trying to understand. On their site the ‘self-hosting’ solutions have pricing. Is there something different that is free?
Armand1@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think it’s if you want to have user management. There’s some sort of admin console you have to pay for, but I don’t use it.
To be honest I had kind of forgotten it was a thing. If you’re using this for a business then you might want to link it to your OIDC (Microsoft account etc.) and therefore pay for those extra features.
However if you use it to connect to your own devices or those of your friends like you would with TeamViewer (via device IDs and per-device passwords) as I do, you won’t have to pay for it.
Give it a go and see how you get on!
chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Right on, thanks for the info!