Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect

smartkid808

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@smartkid808 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@smartkid808 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller not that i know of (remember, I don't use or care for linux, but will use it if need).. I only use this for MC. I followed the directions for auto start I believe from the MC website.. I'll try find that.

All other updates went without issues. Just this last one.

Try re-running your NPM update manually.

OK, let me find the directions again. or do u know the command off the top of you head?
npm install meshcentral

Thanks, get this

scottalanmiller

@smartkid808 you need to run that in the location where MeshCentral is installed.

smartkid808

@scottalanmiller Not sure if this is the right location, I followed the steps in the install manual during initial install.. But I assume its this location " ./node_modules/meshcentral"

I switch to that directory and then get these errors

scottalanmiller

@smartkid808 that's a relative location, relative to where you are at the time. Do this...

find / -name meshcentral

scottalanmiller

It's no different than on Windows, if you don't start at the root (like c:) when doing something, it is relative to where you are. But it is way simpler than Windows because everything starts from the central root and you don't have separate roots for each physical device.

smartkid808

@scottalanmiller Hi scott, so this is what it pulls up.. sorry for being so dumb lol

Curtis

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

This is what I have on a 19.04 install...

@scottalanmiller using Ubuntu

Scott

@smartkid808 I too had trouble with MC on Linux because I am not a regular Linux user.

scottalanmiller has helped me a great deal. The man has the patience of a saint.

smartkid808

@Scott said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@smartkid808 I too had trouble with MC on Linux because I am not a regular Linux user.

scottalanmiller has helped me a great deal. The man has the patience of a saint.

Yes sir.. He sure is. and has been since I met him in SW. Hopefully I can get mines working again..lol

scottalanmiller

@smartkid808 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller Hi scott, so this is what it pulls up.. sorry for being so dumb lol

This is weird folder structure for sure. Go into node_modules and run from there...

cd node_modules

smartkid808

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@smartkid808 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller Hi scott, so this is what it pulls up.. sorry for being so dumb lol

This is weird folder structure for sure. Go into node_modules and run from there...
cd node_modules

Not sure if I did it right..

When I run as sudo

scottalanmiller

Do...

cd /home/wscheele/node_modules/

Then do

sudo npm install meshcentral

smartkid808

Hi Again Scott!..lol OK, did that, and it comes back

scottalanmiller

Is there much connected there yet? Honestly, I'd start over with a good install. You really don't want this running out of your home directory or as an end user. You want it installed by root under /opt.

Just do...

sudo -i su
cd /opt
npm install meshcentral

Stay out of end user land and home directories for all things involving MeshCentral.

smartkid808

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

Honestly, I'd start over with a good install. You really don't want this running out of your home directory or as an end user. You want it installed by root under /opt.

I have a backup from the other week. I think I just put the user account since thats what the setup put me thru. Can't exactly remember.

do the above command after I reload Ubuntu?

Scott

@scottalanmiller I followed the MC install guide for Ubuntu and it read the following: "In all cases, MeshCentral must not be installed as root user. It’s not secure and the instructions below will not work correctly," which is why I installed in userland.

scottalanmiller

@Scott said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller I followed the MC install guide for Ubuntu and it read the following: "In all cases, MeshCentral must not be installed as root user. It’s not secure and the instructions below will not work correctly," which is why I installed in userland.

I see that it says that. That definitely conflicts with all of their other documentation, including further up in the document itself.

scottalanmiller

@Scott the Ubuntu instructions also aren't updated for the last two Ubuntu releases, and forget to have you make the directory. The "quick" instructions at the top of the document for all versions are way more complete and simple.

Also, I just realized, because you followed those Ubuntu directions instead of the generic ones, that's why you have less RAM available. You must have installed MongoDB. That will use a lot more resources because it is running a full database server which you really have no need for until you have many hundreds, possibly thousands, of end points to manage. It's not a problem, you are just set up for a much larger style of install than the basic default one, so it uses more RAM.

scottalanmiller

@Scott I used the NPM instructions on page 3 rather than the Ubuntu instructions.

Scott

Thank for the replies.

Yes, I have MongoDB in use. I intend to have many more clients than I am currently working with.

Do you recommend reinstalling and while I am at it maybe do it on Fedora? May I import existing clients or does that require reinstalling them?

I have also yet to set up Let's Encrypt.