Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect
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@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@black3dynamite said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Just updated from 0.2.5-f to 0.2.5-j. It has been a busy morning, I guess!
Considered creating a script to update it?
No, it's the kind of thing we want to control the timing of as someone might be working for a client at any given moment 24x7.
A shell script does not a cron job make!
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@travisdh1 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@black3dynamite said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Just updated from 0.2.5-f to 0.2.5-j. It has been a busy morning, I guess!
Considered creating a script to update it?
No, it's the kind of thing we want to control the timing of as someone might be working for a client at any given moment 24x7.
A shell script does not a cron job make!
A script only makes sense in that context, though, since it is just the click of a button to update it as it is.
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@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@travisdh1 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@black3dynamite said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Just updated from 0.2.5-f to 0.2.5-j. It has been a busy morning, I guess!
Considered creating a script to update it?
No, it's the kind of thing we want to control the timing of as someone might be working for a client at any given moment 24x7.
A shell script does not a cron job make!
A script only makes sense in that context, though, since it is just the click of a button to update it as it is.
Ah. That's nice. Obviously haven't gotten around to getting this installed yet myself.... my new server should be delivered today, so maybe by this weekend.
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@scottalanmiller Script... or set "SelfUpdate" to true in settings section of MeshCentral's config.json. It's supposed to update sometime between midnight and 1am, but I got to check that code again. I may be updating in UTC time or something.
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@Ylian
I have the update setting enabled but my one server is still on 0.2.4-w -
I'm on 0.2.5-k now.
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Holy Smokes!
This tool rocks. Has anybody tried the Agent on a Wayland interface yet?
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@dafyre said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Holy Smokes!
This tool rocks.
Yeah it does!
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Have y'all tried it with a system that uses Wayland yet? Or are your clients mainly Windows?
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@dafyre said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Have y'all tried it with a system that uses Wayland yet? Or are your clients mainly Windows?
We use a bit of Linux, but probably none with Wayland.
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@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@dafyre said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Have y'all tried it with a system that uses Wayland yet? Or are your clients mainly Windows?
We use a bit of Linux, but probably none with Wayland.
So you haven't installed it on Fedora Gnome?
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@black3dynamite said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@dafyre said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Have y'all tried it with a system that uses Wayland yet? Or are your clients mainly Windows?
We use a bit of Linux, but probably none with Wayland.
So you haven't installed it on Fedora Gnome?
Working on that now.
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@black3dynamite said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@dafyre said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Have y'all tried it with a system that uses Wayland yet? Or are your clients mainly Windows?
We use a bit of Linux, but probably none with Wayland.
So you haven't installed it on Fedora Gnome?
No, we don't use Gnome anywhere.
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On a fresh netinstall of Fedora 29, it mostly doesn't work. It does show up in MeshCenral. And I tested both Desktop and Terminal and neither of them worked.
Going to try with SELinux off and see what happens.
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Does anyone know if there is going to be a support side to this tool, It looks like it could be implemented on the web page by entering a support code to download a client, like screen connect.
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@StuartJordan said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Does anyone know if there is going to be a support side to this tool, It looks like it could be implemented on the web page by entering a support code to download a client, like screen connect.
You can already do something kind of like that. It's slightly different, but the "click to download a client" functionality is there.
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There is a built in mailer, or you can just provide a link. The "Invite" button is the easiest way. I really wish that that button produced a link locally, too.
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Just to ask a dumb question as I havent set this up.
This page here is saying to install a trusted cert, is it installing a self-signed cert or is it setting up letsencrypt?
I assume the former but am just asking as it really makes no sense.
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@DustinB3403 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Just to ask a dumb question as I havent set this up.
This page here is saying to install a trusted cert, is it installing a self-signed cert or is it setting up letsencrypt?
I assume the former but am just asking as it really makes no sense.
It'll do either. You control the setting. Turn on LE, and it gets its own LE cert and manages it for you.
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@scottalanmiller So it'll go through and install LE and get the cert and everything?
