@Dashrender said in ScreenConnect Unable to Start on Fedora 33:

@scottalanmiller said in ScreenConnect Unable to Start on Fedora 33:

You can use an RDP client if you want for Windows users.

I've read that - I need to figure how how that works.

We have some customers using them, but we don't use them internally AFAIK.

@CCWTech said in Connectwise Control / Screenconnect recommends you break the law to run their software:

@JasGot said in Connectwise Control / Screenconnect recommends you break the law to run their software:

@scottalanmiller said in Connectwise Control / Screenconnect recommends you break the law to run their software:

spending so much time waiting for ScreenConnect to finally be able to load its device list. We spend just as much time waiting for SC's list to stop flashing from its load problems as it

How many clients?
What list?
SC is very fast in my experience.

2,000 clients and navigation and opening are fairly slow.

Have you used session filtering and subgroup expressions to keep any given window at a reasonable level?

We have thousands of clients sorted into hundreds of sub folders [for lack of a better word]. Our largest folder is 332 clients and it is loaded before I can get my finger off the mouse button.

@JaredBusch said in Chromebook and ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller said in Chromebook and ScreenConnect:

@JaredBusch said in Chromebook and ScreenConnect:

Heard more from the user.

Would prefer 15" screen and a numeric keypad... /sigh..

Found this one. https://www.amazon.com/Acer-CB715-1W-P4Y6-Chromebook-4417U-Chrome/dp/B07W996BQ5

Anyone have a comment on it?

Only 32GB, but it is supposed to be only for browsing and ScreenConnect.

32GB is PLENTY. I don't even need the 16GB that I have. And 8GB of RAM, that's a monster of a Chromebook. Should be way, way fast enough. Just really expensive is all.

Mostly it is the form factor, I think, 15” with the numeric keypad

True, the extra size brings up the price quite quickly.

@wrx7m said in Configure Nginx as Reverse Proxy for ScreenConnect to Enable Lets Encrypt:

Less to that than I thought there would be.

It's surprisingly simple and basic. It's really just passing one port to another, and using SSL. About the most basic setup you can have.

@dbeato said in ScreenConnect/Connectwise control client exe (marked as malicious):

@JaredBusch said in ScreenConnect/Connectwise control client exe (marked as malicious):

@dbeato said in ScreenConnect/Connectwise control client exe (marked as malicious):

@scottalanmiller said in ScreenConnect/Connectwise control client exe (marked as malicious):

@dbeato no, just an online file by file virus scanner?

No, (although it should be for another thread) it gives you information about the file, file hash. or URL in question. Example below is the Itarian Remote Control application Executable:
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It compares the has of the file to multiple AV and Technology companies to see if the hash has been flagged as malicious or not or if it is questionable.

How is that useful? The executable is rebuilt on every install for every group that it auto links to. that makes a hash useless.

That might be true for ConnectWise but not all Executables create a new hash everytime.

And in those unrelated cases, lots of things flagging the would be more meaningful.

Thanks that is nice info

@dbeato said in Connectwise Purchased:

@wrx7m said in Connectwise Purchased:

@dbeato said in Connectwise Purchased:

@wrx7m said in Connectwise Purchased:

@travisdh1 said in Connectwise Purchased:

@Nic said in Connectwise Purchased:

@EddieJennings said in Connectwise Purchased:

Does Thoma Bravo own LogMeIn? If not, then this might not be terrible.

Here's the full list:
https://www.thomabravo.com/companies

They just bought LogRhythm, where I worked, this summer, and then did layoffs. I left as it wrecked the culture. I'm now at Ping Identity which is safely post-acquisition 🙂

Did HP dump Sonicwall?

I didn't know that HP bought Sonicwall. I knew about Dell.

They are on neither, Sonicwall doesn't belong to Dell like since 2016...

Who is it now?

Francisco Partners and Elliot Management

Oh. Those guys.

Holy cow, I just realized that we've been using MC since Dec, 2018. That's 27 months ago!

@Dashrender said in ScreenConnect Update Errors on Fedora 28 ScreenConnect_6.8.20124.6845:

@JaredBusch said in ScreenConnect Update Errors on Fedora 28 ScreenConnect_6.8.20124.6845:

Just upgraded to 6.9 and had the same error. Fedora 29 base.

Reran the upgrade with the export and it worked without error.

rolled back and reran it or just ran the upgrader over the last not so great upgrade?

Just ran over it. Same as I did the prior time also.

@JaredBusch said in ScreenConnect agent on Fedora fails rpm install:

rpm -U ConnectWiseControl.ClientSetup.rpm

ConnectWise Control version 19.0.23234.7027 resolved the failure to update. but they neglected to remove the old screenconnect version as the new install is named connectwisecontrol

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+1 on ScreenConnect being awesome. Here are my top five:

allows support to remote in to a client user's machine in under five seconds can configure users as support agents with limited rights such that they can only log in to their own computer. Handy for those who occasionally need to remote their computer, either from home or elsewhere. Android and iPhone/Pad apps. customizable to your company look/feel including colors & logos ad-hoc remote sessions with emailed invitations for systems that do not have a client installed

The version I use requires a small client (<2 MB) installed on the controlling machine, though all access is through a web browser.

Recently posted this...

https://mangolassi.it/topic/20124/has-anyone-got-a-guide-to-installing-screenconnect-on-fedora-30-with-let-s-encrypt/

So anyone that wants to configure Nginx in front of it can do that, too.

@romo said in Remote Connect/Support Tools for Fedora, Windows, OS X:

Seems really interesting with the monitoring and the ability to have custom alerts.

@FATeknollogee How has the testing been going?

Haven't done much more than my OP.
I plan to do some more testing over the weekend.
My main goal is to find a ScreenConnect replacement.

The batch file I have for one client is this:

powershell Rename-Computer -NewName "COMPUTER_NAME" -DomainCredential DOMAIN\ADMINUser -Restart

Where COMPUTER_NAME to not exceed the 15 character limit

ETA:
I should add that this batch script start with installing Chocolatey package management tools, then the default applications,

@mike-davis said in Has ConnectWise Set ScreenConnect Adrift as Ghost Ship Software?:

Could it be that they are not focusing on supporting self hosted options since it generates so little revenue for them?

If this is their goal, they've screwed the pooch on marketing. Informing customers that they aren't able to maintain their software and that it has security issues is the exact opposite thing that you do if you want to convince them to moved to a completely opaque system and "just trust" that they will keep your systems safe.

If this is their goal, they are doing exactly the opposite of what would be smart about it. If they wanted to move customers in this direction, they should make customers happy and move them this way, instead of pushing on premises sales and not provided good support.

@black3dynamite said in Fedora with ScreenConnect:

I believe GDM is running under Wayland when using Fedora Gnome. Might have better success using Fedora XFCE for a jump box.

We didn't have good results with that either, problems with menus in browsers.

@doug said in ScreenConnect for ChromeOS:

@scottalanmiller said in ScreenConnect for ChromeOS:

Google Management Console

Are you referring to https://chrome.google.com/remotedesktop
?

No, that's just a desktop remoting system. We're talking about a management platform. More like MDM. Not remote assistance.

@jaredbusch said in Rescue computer with remote access:

I put fedora workstation on a usb, and live booted and installed l2tp dependencies with no issue.

So installing iced tea should be fine.

I've worked with lots of live sessions without persistence, and never had an issue installing additional software. Granted your limited to RAM as your total storage and system operation, and any additional software installed goes away on power off/reboot. It's odd that you're having trouble installing something unless it's requiring lots of large dependencies.

Your game plan is sound. Maybe they'll learn the joys of good backups?

@scottalanmiller I am on 6.4.something and it works for me on Fedora.

No Korora instance to test on

@ambarishrh said in screenconnect migrating from Windows to CentOS7:

Should i reconsider moving to Linux server, when the product owner recommends to stay with Windows?

Should also note, the vendor chose to use .NET for their server and much of their software is utter garbage; their reliability in decision making around these things is already highly suspect.