Remotely - An Open Source, Self Hosted, Remote Desktop and Remote Support Tool with Power!
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=== Timestamps ===
00:00 Beginning
00:09 Introduction to Remotely
02:30 Quick History on Remotely
04:10 Thank you to my Patrons at Patreon, and my Subscribers at CZcams
04:50 Setting Up our Business LSC Container Host (optional step_
10:08 Installing Docker
10:40 Setting up to install Remotely
12:30 Installing Remotely
13:05 Setup the Reverse Proxy
15:48 Remotely Interface Overview
16:25 User Account Configuration
17:30 Organization Setup
18:24 Settings Overview
21:30 Server Logs
21:45 Remote Control Setup
25:50 Unattended Access
28:45 Remote Commands and Scripts
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For anyone who was noticing my issue, or having the same issue, where the URL would come up as http instead of https, Jared (Lucentsea) the originator of Remotely, reponded to my question about it on Github, and fixed it with a new configuration in the Server Config section of the UI. I just tested it, and it works perfectly. No more asking your user to update a URL. Check it out here! github.com/immense/Remotely/issues/584 @Deffcolony a call out to you since you asked specifically about this.
Hi there! Is there a way to change the default server url on the app? Mine always show the local ip of the server and the port. I have to ask my customers to change it to my public IP.
hello ! Great work, I'm having trouble installing on Windows 8.1 clients, can you give me a tip?
I hope you get big enough, just to do this full time, I enjoy your coverage of Open Source Tools. I share your channel with everyone who mentions ANYTHING opensource to me. Thanks for your time..
Much appreciated!
I've been using Apache Guacamole for 5 years, but with the channel's videos I decided to risk Remotely, of course not everything is like the video, and we have to share our own experiences. But it was worth the lost sleep. Thank you very much and continue to present us with excellent quality material.
My pleasure!
Great tutorial, really easy to follow and I set up Remotely on 10 PCs quickly now!
Glad it helped!
I didn't know Remotely had it's own agent software. I thought it was like Apache guacamole where it was just a hub to connect to natively ran remote software like RDP/xrdp, VPN, Rustdesk, etc. That's pretty cool. 👍
Yep, makes it a really great tool for desktop support calls.
Very nice! This might be a good replacement for TeamViewer that we use at work. Love using open source.
This is an awesome tool!
Another brilliant vid.
Can't believe I can deploy the unattended EXE with the server URL argument so the end-user doesn't have to enter it!
It's really an awesome tool!
As always, great video, thank you for explaining and demo of how this amazing software works this is for sure one of the tools that I need to try and also implement for one or more of the clients I work for now. I remember a previous video where you did a comparison table of all these remote support tools and considered whether any company can have all these applications working simultaneously since one of these could be a backup of another and so on and so for. Mesh Central seems the more complete tool, which your pros and cons, but Remotely seem very easy to use and easy to install tools tanks to the docker implementation. Thank you so much for this and the other amazing videos that you share.
That's exactly what I do. I use them all for various situations and reasons.
Very good video. Thanks for your job!
Thanks for watching!
THANKS! for those amazing videos on open source, how to, guides and so on.. !!!! In your video, created approx 1 year ago, You download an .exe file in the Resident Agents section. But now, I am getting an powershell script file instead.. And it is not just that easy to get that executed correctly. I will try using the script examples they have shown.
Thx for this video tutorial on Remotely. I have tried with RustDesk but must say Remotely is much more userfriendly the way it works.
I hope you get it figured out. I think the powershell script will run if you start powershell as an admin, at least that's been my experience.
I love you r videos. It helped me setup lots of awesome opensource tools for my office and personal work. I was wondering if there any Plan to make a video on FreeRadius User authentication for Routers
I've had other requests for FreeRadius. I'll look into it and see what I can figure out.
Many thanks. It is very useful tool. and your explanation is very clear and able to setup with out any hassle
You are welcome!
@@AwesomeOpenSource how do I enable unattended access to PC. Not seeing options anywhere
When you login to your site as an admin, go to the Downloads page ( you have to be logged in ), then you can download the unattended version (installed version).
Thanks. But encountering a new problem. We want to set unattended access for our remote server which is running with windows server 2016 edition but remotely not seems to be installing in it. Anyways to do it
Hi Brian, you should change your 2fa because we see the key (not the QR Code) at 17:03 🙂
Not to worry my friend, I destroyed that instance after the recording was done, and have a new one setup for my own use. I appreciate it though. I kind of wasted my time blacking it out.
That's what I like about the manual code so I can copy and paste it into KeepassXC. Makes it easy to share it on several devices for the same account.
Loved it !!!
Thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure.
Great job, nice tool. !
Thank you so much!
I just stumbled upon this yesterday. This is awesome! Would you mind if I linked this on the repo's readme?
Not at all. Please do. And if things change where I’m out of date. Let me know so I can do an update.
Hi Brian, thank you for your video on Remotely setup with Nginx Proxy. We've been using it for over a year and its a valuable tool for supporting friends, family and clients. I do have a configuration question for you though. All of our Remotely persistant clients show the same "Public IP" which is actually our Remotely/Proxmox VM LAN IP. A bit of research points to the Nginx proxy advanced settings as a possible solution. Do you happen to know the advanced Nginx configs needed? Thanks again, and keep up the excellent tutorials!
I think there's one for x-forward-real-ip or something to that effect that might do the trick, but not 100% sure. You might askt he immybot/remotely team either on Reddit at the Remotely subreddit, or on their issues board.
Thanks Brian, this looks awesome.
Do you know if remotely can display multiple remote monitors simultaneously?
I don't think it can. It has a method for switching between screens instead.
Great tutorial :) A quick thing: you forgot to mask the 2FA key on 16:50 :D
Not to worry, it was just for a test site, but I appreciate you letting me know anyway.
tnx for the vid
My pleasure.
It looks like a great tool.
It's an awesome tool!
Thank you for the content. Will Remotely, or any of the other remote desktop options you know of, work with Wayland? I would like to be able to remotely access Fedora machines using KDE. Gnome has Wayland support for remote desktop out of the box, but remote desktop with KDE under Wayland is proving challenging for me.
I was testing this just the other ady. I know RustDesk is working on Wayland support, but not sure where it's at so far. Guacamole can do wayland using the build in Wayland-gnome-rdp server with Ubuntu...thus it's really RDP. MeshCentral connects, but doesn't show anything on it's html5 streamer, the web-rdp also didn't work, but I think the wayland-gnome-rdp system is still so new it is very picky about matching screen resolution right now as well.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Thanks for the reply. Yes, remote access via RDP works pretty well on Gnome Wayland. I guess the problem for KDE is on the KDE side. I hope KDE can make some progress on this, as I much prefer it over Gnome. For now I will continue to use X11 on KDE as x11vnc works very well for me.
23:40 Wow. I am floored. I sincerely hope no one EVER asks employees or clients to do this. Ever.
That is a social engineering attack waiting to happen. We can't preach cyber security to our users and then ask them to ignore all of the red flags the OS is throwing up to so an attack in it's tracks.
Yes, in this instance it's not an attack. Sure. But what we've done is primed our users to ignore these prompts. No even if you tell them only to ever ignore those prompts when support tells them to and they listen, you've still primed them for attack.
What happens when Bob calls up, or worse, emails, pretending to be from your organisation, from a new MSP, from some kind of third party support, heck pretending to be YOU and tries to get the user to download something malicious. You've primed them to ignore those prompts.
Worse in the real world they're also now more likely to ignore the rest of your security advice and click email links, all ignore other security prompts. This is how orgs get hacked.
That's horrific to see from an IT professional and I can't believe I just saw that in your video. I know you know better than that Brian.
If a project is going to make an executable and they can't even be bothered to sign their app/client, it's no longer an app worth consideration. Devs, sign your apps BEFORE they go wild. It's all fine during closed development but once the public get hold of it, it needs to be properly signed.
I understand your concerns, but I also see it from the developer's point of view. The signing of that application isn't (to me the barrier to being safe and secure). This just says the dev compiled it in a certain way that uses the hash of the application as a key.... Essentially saying it hasn't been modified based on the hash they provide.
Anyone can use any application for malicious reasons. Even signed applications go out with all kinds of crazy vulnerabilities allowing malicious software to be injected anyway.
Open source is all about collaborative modification. But also, some of the customization of the client was done at compile time for Remotely, so now you have an application where the person running it is expected to compile the agent, so no signing from the main author. It's just such a mixed bag of crud on all fronts. If Microsoft was actually checking the app for malicious stuff, it would be one thing, but that's not what the signing means, and even if it was, there is always the opportunity for a malicious person to use that signed version in the same scammy, horrible way that they could use the non-signed version.
Could they make a signed version, sure. Will it help by not training people to ignore security messages...probably. Will it stop bad people from doing bad things with great software...no.
I do, 100^ appreciate your thoughts, and concerns, so please, go to their github, and request that they sign the application builds. Totally valid request.
@@AwesomeOpenSource I completely appreciate the point of open source. If we're being honest >90% of all windows users running open source software are running a precompiled executable from the dev team.
The entire point of signing your code is so that a malicious actor CAN NOT inject code after the fact. Injected code would alter the hash, and thus windows would not run the code. WDAC associates the code with a real world vendor, creates associations within defender and provides additional controls to sysmins.
From Microsoft themselves
"What is code signing and why is it important?
Code signing provides some important benefits to application security features like Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC). First, it allows the system to cryptographically verify that a file hasn't been tampered with since it was signed and before any code is allowed to run. Second, it associates the file with a real-world identity, such as a company or an individual developer. This identity can make your WDAC policy trust decisions easier and allows for real-world consequences when code signing is abused or used maliciously. Although Windows doesn't require software developers to digitally sign their code, most major independent software vendors (ISV) do use code signing for much of their code. And metadata that a developer includes in a file's resource header (.RSRC), such as OriginalFileName or ProductName, can be combined with the file's signing certificate to limit the scope of trust decisions. For example, instead of allowing everything signed by Microsoft, you can choose to allow only files signed by Microsoft where ProductName is "Microsoft Teams". Then use other rules to authorize any other files that need to run.
Wherever possible, you should require all app binaries and scripts are code signed as part of your app acceptance criteria. And, you should ensure that internal line-of-business (LOB) app developers have access to code signing certificates controlled by your organization."
Signing is not a foolproof security measure and I'm not trying to suggest that it is. But it would be wrong to suggest it provides no security at all.
More importantly however this is about *USER BEHAVIOUR* where you want staff following basic cyber security measures such as not ignoring security prompts and an IT team member suggesting you should to be a red flag as a protection against social engineering attacks. Remember >80% of all system intrusions come as a result of social engineering attacks. They are what we need to protect against the most, and that's a matter of behaviour/policy adherence.
The floored you? lol If that twisted your nipple, you better close that Sec+ book and get out there with the real world. He gave you a valid response to something that didn't rise to the level of such concern. This response and yours below are the type bosses shrug off as 'FNG mentality' wanting to save the world. Usually they settle in and start getting real experience and knowledge and these responses subside so that if another response like this appears, everyone knows it's not a Boy Cryin' Wolf scenario.. you may be too young for that reference.
Or, infosec folks, or any tech people for that matter, can continue these long winded, won't let up, sky is falling routines, and just lay their own path to the future, which pretty soon is right out in the parking lot. Got to find a balance and learn what the real threats are and realize that the books you've been sleeping on are a long ways away from daily life in tech and what the execs think about it when the $$$$ stop rolling in.
does anyone know if where does the uploaded file go ? If i upload file the message says successful transfer. But to what path i don't know it never tells or asks for location. neither in linux nor in windows.
For the end user, to install the EXE does it require administration permissions ? Normally for business users, all the machines have limited access. So if this is a portable exe , then UAC does not affect it.
If you install it yes, but it will run as a portable app as well.
Just wondering why you didn't have APACHE GUACAMOLE, I use that because it useful for me. I love that it 2FA built in now.
I'll be covering Guacamole again very soon. I added it to my spreadsheet from last week.
@@AwesomeOpenSource There is a script that will completely compile and install Guacamole for you. It's fine to try it out but I rather build the server manually so I have more control of the certs and system accounts.
Great Walk Thur!!! - i'm unable to find anything how to setup the headers for NPM, in there readme I see "Remotely requires the following headers to be set: X-Forwarded-Proto, X-Forwarded-Host, and X-Forwarded-For." but i'm seeing how to do that within NPM any help?
I have no special header information set in NGinX Proxy Manager, and remotely works just fine. I don't think you need those things, and in the background NPM sets a lot of that up for you.
Great video, I am looking to implement this solution but wanted to find out if the agent connecting back to the server uses encryption and what strength of encryption, thanks
It would be better to ask the project runners, but yes, the agent will connect over TLS encryption when you setup your SSL certs I believe.
When using the command line. Can you copy and paste scripts from your machine to the other one?
The command line tool on the remotely interface at the bottom of the screen should 100% allow for that. yes.
Hello there again, Brian! I have another question. Is there any website that has a documentation for Remotely? I want to make some configs but I'm not sure how to start.
The only place to check would be their github pages for now. I don't think there's much more documentation out there than that. github.com/immense/Remotely
@@AwesomeOpenSource Got it. Thank you for your answer. My biggest problem today is with windows UAC. Whenever I’m giving support using the portable app, if any installation requires elevation, I get locked as soon as the UAC window opens. And I can’t do nothing until the user him self click cancel or type user and password and then I’m back again. It seems to be a problem only when using the portable app. With background installation and unattended access, it doesn’t happen at all. Do you have any clue how to solve this?
Hi great video I have run in to a problem If i do not have access to port forward are the options
When you don't have access to port forward, you have the option of using a VPN like Wireguard where you setup an inexpensive VPS like on Digital Ocean (i have a link in my description that will give you a credit of $50, or $100 for 60 days to try their service). Then setup the VPS with a Wireguard server like NetMaker (I have a video on setting it up). Then use the VPS as the launching point to your services inside your home. So, instead of port forwarding through the router, you reach out from inside the network to the VPS / VPN server, and then the server follows that connection back into your network to make the services available.
Hi there, Brian! Hope you’re doing well. I have a doubt. Whenever my customers download the portable agent and run it, it tries to get the id from my local IP address. I need the exe file to be executed and try to get the id from my public IP instead. Is there a way to do that?
I thought I answered you, but if you are using your IP in the start up docker-compose, or the script, then that's what the end user will get. You need to set your URL in there. Also, it should be https, so in the Web interface, there is a setting that needs to be enabled to get the URL in the client to be https by default. It says enable https transport, or something to that effect.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Thank you sir. Didn’t know this solution. Fun fact is that I managed to solve it in another way. I configured my domain in cloudflare and registered on their zero trust panel. I set up a tunnel to my LAN and configured a subdomain to my remotely server. On the server side I marked the box to always use HTTPS. As my customers download the portable client using my url, when they execute the application, it retrieves the id number from my subdomain with HTTPS. Working as a charm. Thank God for that and thank you for your tutorial. 90% because of you Brian, I am running my business almost 100% on open source.
Hey! I'm sure someone already asked this but anyone else have trouble getting SMTP configured in remotely? No matter what I do it fails.
Thank you for this video! I followed the guide to install Remotely on a home server. In the meantime, a new version has come out - can someone point me to the correct commands to do the docker upgrade?
Thank you very much!
I did the upgrade too, I recall it was hitting a glitch as well but don't remember what it was now. Can you provide the error you are getting? Maybe it will jog my memory.
It seems that it doesn't work with traefik and npm any more?!? Does anybody has it still up and running with https with traefik or npm? Alternatively I have to try it with caddy, what still is supported
I do, with NPM. They did move more toward caddy, but it will still work with NPM as I've shown it being setup.
I have it installed and it seems to work. The issue that I have is that I have to use the my local ip address to make any changes, when I run it through cloudflare tunnel it does not save changes.
What changes are you talking about? I haven't seen behavior like that, but might be something to post on their Github page (immense/remotely).
@@AwesomeOpenSource When I click on Save button, nothing gets saved when using the domain name only when I use the IP address. Could be a trusted proxy thing.
Could be related to a remote management setting? Or if you're using docker it could be related to host network access.
Hello... A good chanell... i have one problem... can you help me how config the SSL certificate in Remotely... ??? Thank You... and keep with your good work :)
What issue are you having specifically with the SSL? Are you running in Docker? Are you using a proxy manager, or just straight from the WAN?
I'm a bit confused. You create a LXC container called remotely in Proxmox. _Then_ you install docker inside the container to run remotely? Why a container inside a container?
I do this more for those potentially running this for a business, or as a person who is just starting into self hosting. You can absolutely run this in docker if you already gave docker running somewhere. I try to give a more complete tutorial for the beginner, and those with more experience can jump to the parts they care about in the timeline.
Can we integrate with Microsoft Entra or AD? Can I push the installer via GP along with the settings?
Is it possible to boot a remote computer into safe mode and then control it? I often need to use these features in TeamViewer and Anydesk.
Not sure, haven't tried it.
How do you configure the application so that it automatically uses https rather than http when providing remote support to new clients? You'd have to tell them every time that they need to go to the gear icon, select Change Server, and then put a s in the http part... this is just not convenient.
I was looking into that. I'm not sure what about the docker container could make that work, but I think it's pulling from the url in the browser at the time. Not sure why it's defaulting to http.
@@AwesomeOpenSourcethis is kinda a deal breaker for me. 😔 any alternative to this that is the most similar to click and go? (Like ConnectWise Control?)
Do you know if this can run under aarch64? I installed the container on an Ampere instance, but I'm getting a docker exec format error.
As I recall there was no Arm support, but not sure if it's been added. You'd have to check the releases on Github.
@@AwesomeOpenSource apparently there is no ARM support. I just thought asking in case you knew about some beta maybe. Thanks anyway. I really appreciate the effort you put on making these videos.
I heard the meshcentral developer is probably not going to work on it anymore. Something to do with leaving Intel and moving to MS. Not sure if the public domain server/host/dns is still necessary to continue using it.
I know he's no longer with Intel, but I think he still works on it in his spare time. As do many, many open source project developers.
@@AwesomeOpenSource I guess the question is - can it work if the DNS/domain or hosting go away.
@@boedilllard5952 it can work by IP only I believe.
is there a way to change the web port from 5000 to port 80? i use KEMP and it dose not like port 5000
Sure. You can just change the left side of the port mapping to 80 instead of 5000 in the docker-compose.yml file.
Hello, very very thanks for the video!!! Please, how to edit files this projetc? translation for another languages and pictures. this is possible ?
I'm not a developer, so You'd need to ask over on their github pages for the information.
Wondering from your original video, at the line: image: translucency/remotely:latest, wondering if changing it to image: immybot/remotely:latest would work.
Noticed at 25:50 Immybot took out Installable "Instant Support Clients". So now I need to update my Remotely to the newest one. How would you delete the Translucency docker one in order to install the Immybot one?
Should. It would pull the newer image and replace the container.
Curious about this also. Let me know if it works.
@@AwesomeOpenSource main question now is which one is the best - rustdesk, mesh central, guacamole and remotely....for homelabbers use they are all great tho
@@AwesomeOpenSource got a weird issue using your nginx, docker-ce etc all-in-one script
Got errors, I choose Debian 11
unreachable to the IP/ports
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### Preparing for Installation ###
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1. Installing System Updates... this may take a while...be patient. If it is being done on a Digial Ocean VPS, you should run updates before running this script.
2. Install Prerequisite Packages...
Giving the Docker service time to start...
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###### Create a Docker Network #########
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Error response from daemon: network with name my-main-net already exists
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### Install NGinX Proxy Manager ###
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1. Pulling a default NGinX Proxy Manager docker-compose.yml file.
2. Running the docker-compose.yml to install and start NGinX Proxy Manager
/usr/local/bin/docker-compose: 1: ELF: not found
/usr/local/bin/docker-compose: 1: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting ")")
3. You can find NGinX Proxy Manager files at ./docker/nginx-proxy-manager
Navigate to your server hostname / IP address on port 81 to setup
NGinX Proxy Manager admin account.
The default login credentials for NGinX Proxy Manager are:
username: admin@example.com
password: changeme
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### Installing Portainer-CE ###
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1. Preparing to Install Portainer-CE
2. Creating the folder structure for Portainer.
3. You can find Portainer-CE files in ./docker/portainer
/usr/local/bin/docker-compose: 1: ELF: not found
/usr/local/bin/docker-compose: 1: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting ")")
Navigate to your server hostname / IP address on port 9000 and create your admin account for Portainer-CE
All docker applications have been added to the docker network my-main-app
If you add more docker applications to this server, make sure to add them to the my-main-app network.
You can then use them by container name in NGinX Proxy Manager if so desired.
@@AwesomeOpenSource not a major issue if I have to rollback I did backups prior with pisafe, thinking this script is not working properly because it is meant for amd64 Debian and not arm64 raspberry pi
hello ! Great work, I'm having trouble installing on Windows 8.1 clients, can you give me a tip?
No, I never tried it on 8.1. There may be some missing library needed, but not sure. I'd post a question on their github to ask.
i am not able to change the dbprovider to different setting / and also not able to white label it. can anyone help me?
You might want to ask over on the sub-reddit (remotely_app), or their github discussions page.
Thanks for sharing Remotely. What do you think about Remotely over Rustdesk?
I think they are both great tools. I like remotely because I can login from any machine with a browser and do what I need, vs. RustDesk, where I need a specific application. So If I"m away, but my wife has her laptop or iPad, I don't have to have my rustdesk appp on her devices. That said, both are amazingly useful, great, Open Source tools.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Thanks for sharing your experience. I see you created another video that compares remotely, rport, rustdesk and Mesh central. Can’t wait to watch that video when I have time.
Any chance that a bare metal install of the latest ver. can be done?
Not sure. There used to be a script you could run on a VPS or Server running Ubuntu that would install it locally instead of in Docker, but I think their suggested method is Docker.
Giving this a go today :) i'm getting a "relayed connection" on the browser and i think that is making everything lag... anyone experienced it ?
Depending on where you are running it, you may see the relayed connection. Make sure on your reverse proxy you allow WebRTC connections. That can help.
@@AwesomeOpenSource there is always something new :D Got green light , peer to peer connection :-)
Hey thanks for you videos, i already install the latest Version: 2023.09.11.1010 and i have issues when trying to download the windows installer resident agents, windows shows a message that said " This app cant run on your pc, to find a version for you PC, check with software publisher' and for you info, the size of the file is 277kb. Thanks
Not sure why you would see that. maybe Windows S or something?
What you can recommend where to get know how to deploy the app on Ubuntu and settings for nginx?
What do you mean? I run the server on a Ubuntu server, and deploy the client on Ubuntu. You do have to install some dependencies for Ubuntu though. Should be listed on the Github page.
Oh.... I see! I am sorry! I have not seen your video entirely at once. Now I have deloied the server on Ubuntu and it is running fine. Thank you very much!!! However I need to manage with Raspberry PI devices, is it possible with Remotely app?
Sadly, I don't believe they've ever made an Arm client.
Can the application run at windows startup ?
That way i can logout and switch users…
The resident agent runs on startup.
Good evening, how are you? On the device, I can change its name to include the client's name because otherwise, it gets a bit confusing. I tried to make adjustments on the platform, but I couldn't."
You can add a group for each client and add the machines for that client to their group.
i was hoping you could help me. i installed everything like u did and i also use nginx proxy manager but when i am in the subdomain i cant save anything or open the ? marks but if i go to the manual ip it works fine there. any ideas would be greatful
Check the docker logs for Remotely. You should be able to see this with the 'docker logs remotely' command. You may have to change the container name to the right one. But that's a place to start. Also, watch your nginx proxy manager logs as you try to go to those pages. Sounds like you possibly haven't filled the FQDN properly in a configuration (maybe an environment variable).
@@AwesomeOpenSource i couldnt find one that worked. but i am actually having issues with all that lead to other machines. Seems the only ones that are working correctly are the ones on the same machine as Nginx proxy manager
Weirdest thing is i tested it today and when i use the remote control option that works fine, as well but as i mentioned the options on the left work when clicked just cant select anything on the right. I aprecaite your thoughts i couldnt find anything weird exactly but if u would allow me i can upload the logs to u if u dont mind if u have time i understand if not
@@AwesomeOpenSource
Sorry for the delayed response, but I just really don't know. I'm happy to look over the logs, but cna't guarantee I'll find anything. If you'll go over to discuss.opensourceisawesome.com and share them there with me, I'm MickInTX.
i think i found out at least why people can register on ther eown for some reason this didnt work this is form github even though i registered my server but this didnt go away like they said it would "An organization is automatically created for the account.
Organizations are used to group together users, devices, and other data items into a single pool.
By default, only one organization can exist on a server.
The Register button will disappear.
People will no longer be able to create accounts on their own."""
@@AwesomeOpenSource
I am running remotely local so just lan access and for some reason the settings to redirect to https under server config will not stay checked after I save the configuration. Any thoughts?
No, unless it doesn't like the self-signed cert, but not sure about that. Maybe just post an issue on the github site for immense/remotely.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Thanks for your fast response, I am not sure what I have done wrong with the install because the agents when I download them do not have the URL or company ID baked into them. To login to the portal is only available via http and not https. Any thoughts on what could be wrong, I used your super awesome script to install it
no, I think the clients just pull the fqdn from the site...but not sure what may be going on.
ty, but i have installed and tried in local network but .....
i have always black screen no remote on other machine ubuntu no try with windwows any issue ???
Just access bash command no shared screen.....
If you're using Ubuntu with Wayland, you may see just a black screen for now, as sharing the Wayland desktop is a bit more complicated than the old x11 desktop. All of my tests sharing windows screens have gone perfectly so far.
Yep wayland, i Will tryptophane switch to X11 xorg.
Ty for fast reply
No problem.
ANY ONE HAS IDEA ABOUT BY USING THESE SOFTWARE WE CAN TAKE CONTROAL FOR PROCTORED EXAMS.
None of these are intended for giving proctored exams. I'm sure there is some software geared more toward that.
Thanks for the vid. I would like a non-docker solution - but Remotely changed to docker only. I am disappointed. Also it sounds as a bad descition to me to install a vitualization environment on a virtual server. I mean you show howto use Proxmox to host a CT (container) with virtual OS Ubuntu. Then install a virtual environment (docker on that) to host a virtual container which then hosts the remotely service. At least thats how i understand it. I dont like the double virtualization part.
Well, you don't have to do it that way. I just do it for ease of learning. The CT can be done the same as on metal. Remotely in Docker is great though. It really makes it easy to reporduce the environment they want you to run things on.
How do you disable register button at the log in screen
After you register, as long as you only have the 1 organization, it will be disabled.
Thank you for your response and information. Your videos are excellent and I appreciate the knowledge I have gained from watching them. I have a question, do you have any plans to upload a video on best practices for securing Docker or any self-hosted applications? Thank you again@@AwesomeOpenSource
it shows registration is disabled. can you help with this issue?
You can disable Registration in the configuration with docker-compose, or in the User Interface I believe. You need to go to admin settings to re-enable it.
How to install agent on ubuntu ? unable install it now
I have seen similar situations. I got it to run, but it crashed pretty quick. Not sure why it's happening. I saw a github issue for it, so you might also add to that to make sure it gets attention. Here's the link to that issue github.com/immense/Remotely/issues/576
They really should just sign the software. That's too much trouble for standard users.
Agreed, but I can understand their reluctance as well. Maybe a way to generate revenue, subscription for the signed version?
Paying hundreds of dollars a year to get your software signed is rediculous. I would understand the reluctance 100%
Can you reply the agent via script? say from another RMM tool?
Do you mean push it out using a script to client machines?
How would you run this from vultr or digitalocean?
Same way, just use the Public IP of your DO server in the A-record.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Do you still need the proxy server running? Also what specs would you recommend for the DO server?
Linux agent doesnt install for me.....have you got it installed on linux?
Yes, but I believe it only works on Ubuntu, and there's some stuff you have to install before hand listed on the README of the project.
How do I install this without docker?
There used to be an installer script that would install everything as a service on a Ubuntu server, but not sure they support that method anymore.
Does it work with Raspberry Pi as Remote Control Client?
At the time there was no raspberry Pi (Arm) build for the client. I haven't looked in a bit to see if there's any work going on with that though. It's always worth a request on their github though.
@AwesomeOpenSource - I get a 404 error on your Patreon link.
Thanks for letting me know. FOr whatever reason my address has been upgraded / changed to patreon.com/awesomeopensource which is nice, but would have been nice if they had told me the old one wouldn't work anymore.
Will it support privacy option? Anyone tried this?
What do you mean by "Privacy"?
@@AwesomeOpenSource Thank you for your reply. Privacy - Black screen on remote PC. This feature available in Anydesk, Teamviewer paid version etc...
Can't take remote control as an Admin, Remotely does not work with Microsoft UAC correctly, the Microsoft Quick Assist does work.
Seems like I read something about that being fixed, but not sure when.
Subscribing nice content!
Thanks glad to have you here!
Is posible disable Register option?
I don't know that you can specify it to be disabled, but if you only set the one organization it will remove the register button. You can always ask for this feature on Github.
@@AwesomeOpenSource ahhh ok, thank You very much
Um.... Working in I.T., and being serious about security, especially internal systems that have access from external systems - you totally left your authenticator code on the screen at 17:00 so if this is still up, you may want to reset your MFA. The actual code you can type into an authenticator app vs the barcode.....
This was a test system. It was removed and rebuilt immediately after the video was concluded. I do appreciate the warning though.
Can't register myself on remotely pls help
Did you install it fresh? It has an option to disable registration, so that may have been set if you are creating a second account.
thanks..edumeet show please..
Edumeet is on my list.
Hey - Mate
How do I change user privileges? -
If you mean what a user can do on a machine, don't think that's an option. You can change the user's machine / device access permisions on the 'Organizations' page, in the 'Users' section, click the 'Edit' button on the user's row under Group / Device, and you can select / de-select which devices a user can access.
Mate this my version BETA how change BETA version?@@AwesomeOpenSource
How setup v2022.08.02.0428 version? docker run -d --name remotely --restart unless-stopped -p 5000:5000 -v /var/www/remotely:/remotely-data immybot/remotely: ???
Peftect THX
You bet! Glad you enjoyed it.
registration is disabled
now what!
Registration on your own server?
install remotely dont working anymore...
The docker install should work fine. I did it just a week or so back. No issues.
u forget to hide 2fa code
It was a test only system, destroyed and rebuilt many times at this point, but thank you for letting me know.