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Rustdesk's lesser known features (github.com)

submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by iii@mander.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Rustdesk started as an open-source alternative to TeamViewer. Now, it offers more than just remote desktop access, making it handy for casual self-hosting.

With no need for (dyn)DNS, port forwarding, or a VPN, you can get:

Remote terminal
File transfer
Tunneling (similar to SSH port forwarding)
Remote desktop

I think it’s a solid choice if you have a simple one-server setup.

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[–] passenger@sopuli.xyz 2 points 56 minutes ago

Thanks for the additional digging.

Is it totally open source? Because I am not suited to verify this - I can only see that at some point it was not open source while claiming to be, and relied on binary blobs. Their server side code? Cannot know what is in there (of course). Running your own server? Cannot really vet the code either, so until it becomes still more popular I cannot trust it yet.

I mean, it is probably fine, I hope it is.

They have scrubbed Zhou from the company info page. They were listed as founder before among the two other people (who may or may not be real - this is another question mark I saw). This scrubbing could, of course be non nefarious. But I think this could have and should have been communicated better.

But instead they seem to shut down discussion: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/1159#discussioncomment-3312105

None of this has to mean anything much but I personally will continue with paid options still for now and keep hoping rd would turn out alright!