RPort Remote Client Management

[timconsidine]

@marcusquinn v.interesting
Just been trawling for something like this
Obviously not trawling very well, because I didn't see this.
Thank you.

[timconsidine]

@timconsidine although bit sad to see no client for Mac with M1 chip ... yet anyway

[marcusquinn]

@timconsidine I'm looking at others too - will post here if I have any luck. https://wiki.x2go.org/ might be interesting if we can get a test setup.

[timconsidine]

@marcusquinn before hearing about rport, I started playing with free version of https://remotedesktopmanager.com
Not opensource and def freemium model
But the free tier seems pretty generous
And generally it seems very capable (early days still)
I think I like the sound of Rport more though

[marcusquinn]

@timconsidine If looking at proprietary options, and enterprise capabilities, then this, from Comodo, might be worth a look — free for up to 50 clients and pretty cheap if you're in the league for more than that:

• https://www.itarian.com

[timconsidine]

@marcusquinn thank you !

[micmc]

@marcusquinn
Amazing finding bro
I vote.

[marcusquinn]

@micmc I dismissed it the first time around because I couldn't find the language switcher on the website to Englisch, hence noting it above.

[fbartels]

I started looking into rport a bit and while it does look interesting it relies on port forwarding for connections. Which means that each open connection requires an additional port that needs to be accessed.

Example:

• I want to connect through rport to my windows system via rdp
• I have to run the rport client on my windows system
• I connect with an rdp client on my local system to ip-of-rport-server:12345

Therefore one needs a port for the rport server itself and additionally a range of ports (default is 20000-30000) to function. I am not sure if that is even possible on cloudron at the moment.

Also the fancy ui that you can see on their homepage and the scripting stuff is proprietary and needs at least a trial to download and install.

A nice improvement would be an integration with guacamole so that one does not have to rely on local clients for ssh, rdp, vnc, ...

[marcusquinn]

@fbartels If it's not already familiar, I'm finding remotix.com useful to solve some of these feature needs. Obvs not all, bit also looking into opsi.org.