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 YouTube
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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=== Attributions ===

[vipast]

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..

[Prime_Tecnologia_Automacao]

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.

[Darkk]

Very nice! This might be a good replacement for TeamViewer that we use at work. Love using open source.

[SB-qmwg]

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. 👍

[MrJetlag]

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.

[johnfermor]

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!

[Glatze]

Hi Brian, you should change your 2fa because we see the key (not the QR Code) at 17:03 🙂

[SoWhyX]

Great tutorial, really easy to follow and I set up Remotely on 10 PCs quickly now!

[tvenkatesh]

Many thanks. It is very useful tool. and your explanation is very clear and able to setup with out any hassle

[tjmarx]

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.

[gabriellando]

Great tutorial :) A quick thing: you forgot to mask the 2FA key on 16:50 :D

[carlmiller]

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!

[pedroporrasmedina]

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.

[SB-qmwg]

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?

[tvenkatesh]

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.

[terrorpup]

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.

[rudirumpel]

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.

[akurenda]

They really should just sign the software. That's too much trouble for standard users.

[mauriziovacca]

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!

[Jared-fkid]

I just stumbled upon this yesterday. This is awesome! Would you mind if I linked this on the repo's readme?