Open Source Self Hosted Teamviewer Replacement

Looking for a TeamViewer alternative that gives you full control and privacy? In this video, we dive deep into RustDesk, a self-hostable, open-source, cross-platform remote desktop solution that lets you manage remote systems without relying on third-party servers. I will also cover security considerations you should have running this tool.

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Chapters
00:00 Rustdesk Self Hosted Remote Access
01:18 What is Rustdesk
02:15 Rustdesk Security
03:01 How Rustdesk Works
07:16 Rustdesk Docker Setup
09:14 Setting Up Clients
11:15 Rusdesk Connection Features

[blivioniox]

Good. Teamviewer is a good product but has been a pain in my ass for years with its incessant nagging. Glad someone finally came out with something like this.

[gibsonswe]

Been selfhosting this for a few months now for simple tech support for friends and family and been working great across various versions of Windows and Linux!

[ivanjuarez]

opensourceisawesome did a video a long time ago but I am glad bigger channels are reviewing it

[repairmanbe]

I use it to connect to some of my friends devices when support is needed. I am impressed with it. I used to use Remote utilities, but it disconnected to often was sluggish to a point of being unusable.

[KyleFalconer]

This is incredible and wish this had come out 15 years ago. Thanks for letting us know!

[MichaelJones-rs]

Nice video! The MSP tech stack must include RustDesk for remote control, strong backup protocols, and Thirdlane Multi Tenant PBX to ensure communication channels never fail.

[gersonadr]

This is life changing, thank you sir! My raspberry pi serves RustDesk I can connect my work laptop, gaming PC, personal laptop and ipad.

[Deraco]

As always, a solid video on things that you go in depth in for feature sets and other nuance things

[petrosmestousis]

thank you for all the beautiful videos ... i have learned very much from you ... hello from Greece

[MrJimmyPenguin]

Seeing a video on tacticalrmm would be epic.

[mjjf]

13:06 didn’t knew about that feature. Huge risk management feature.
Thanks for the video

[digitalclips]

Thanks great video, very useful. I've not tried the self hosting yet, but the out of the box set up is working great for me on multiple Linux VMs, and bare metal, Macs and Windows, again both VMs and bare metal. I have UTM on my Mac Studio Ultra and it works great in the Linux ARM VMs too. Getting higher resolutions required installing spice on some and switching to QXL. It is pretty amazing, although I do find with the headless Windows RDP is a better solution from my Mac. So I have both on all Windows instances. RustDesk has changed my life!

[scotts.]

You can disable the wayland option by uncommenting the option in the custom.conf file under /etc/gdm or gdm3 folders. Had to do this with a few Ubuntu VM's I'm running. There's actually an orange box on the interface that mentions this. Great tutorial as usual.

[gatolibero]

5:39 I feel like you're describing VMWare's Unified Access Gateway and how the Horizon client connects to the View Agent. 😮

[matiaserp]

I have been using the free version with their servers for years now. Not very fast but just works. Love Rustdesk!

[fullyelectric]

@LS i was wondering why you guys pull the video, but good to see you put it back up, i take it was because you did not block out our public IPv4 in some of the areas? Anyways all good.

[FuzzzzyWuzzzzy]

Overall, I like the RustDesk project. However, I find that it is still a bit laggy and does not have a smooth experience like some of the other mature remote control products. Also, it does not offer a QuickAssist version like the one provided by TeamViewer - at least not in the free tier.

[tianciao]

Great video! can you make a comparison video between Rustdesk and other free remote desktop products like deskin?

[saltmainz]

I am hosting a server in the Internet, connecting via openvpn and policy based routing to that server.

[dimitristsoutsouras]

If the purpose would be to support different users, would selfhosting the relay server on cloud or on-premises had any menaning, since the relay server would only be configured at the technician side and not the remote user's.