Thank you all for the suggestions.

This is for students in Guatemala. I don't know that it is all one school, as there are kids and extended family of various ages.

I am now leaning toward installing Fedora on these machines. I just switched to Spanish; Castilian, Guatemala to test here in my office and it looks easy.

So, Fedora 27, LibreOffice, VLC, and GIMP and we should be good.

I have suggested to my local contact to drop off a laptop and I will install everything and show it to her.

Any other words of wisdom?

I am looking for a post from somewhere, sometime that I can't remember about a guy who created intentionally bad hold music for pushy sales calls. The jist of it was the music was spectacularly bad, and then was doctored to be nearly unbearable to see how long the caller would stay on hold in hopes of making a sale. Then the system would hang up.

I can't for the life of me remember where I heard this. Does anyone remember this?

I have heard good things about Karl Palachuk's books.

Managed Services in a Month is one of them.

@jaredbusch Thanks mate. Client called me in a panic because he was "cleaning up," saw the warning regarding removing an IMAP account, thought "what could possibly go wrong?" and removed it anyway.

Am headed there now and will follow dbeato's advice regarding Stellar.

@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Welcome @Scott

Well thanks! It has occurred to me that @scottalanmiller is rather popular and if my @Scott name causes chaos I am happy to change it. I was just so excited it wasn't taken.

I have a client whose dad helps him with the books in his home office once a week. They would like to set up remote access for the one day a week he does this so dad does not have to drive 2-3 hours.

Log Me In and TeamViewer seem a little pricey to them for something used a few hours once a week.

Are there any recommended similar remote access options that do not require replacing routers, static IPs and the like?

Thanks.

I used to watch this show too!

Had a TI 99/4A and an IBM PCjr.

Other kids on the block had Commodore 64, VIC-20, Timex Sinclair 1000.

@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.

Thank you all.

Turns out for some reason in Remote Desktop I need to use "user" as username and not the account name.

This is not the case on my network, where the actual user name is used.

@scottalanmiller Yes, well I can't get nginx working regardless of why, who, or what is involved. I do not understand it and cannot seem to learn it. Which is why I am pleading for help with an alternative. Like Let's Encrypt.

Telling me "it's just standard Nginx" makes me feel like more of a fool because I can't get "just standard nginx" working.

Right now I don't give a shit about whether this or that is the preferred way or if there is some conspiracy theory afoot regarding Windows and Linux.

I just need https functioning on my on-premises ScreenConnect server.

Thank you all for your help.

I am obviously out of my league and do not belong here.

@Dashrender Because I am asking for help with Let's Encrypt.

My set up is a Fedora 30 machine that I want to get Let's Encrypt working for https on my ScreenConnect server.

nginx is not running because (I feel like I have said this before) I CANNOT GET IT TO WORK. I have had people on this forum help me via telephone, email and chat and they have not been able to get it running either.

There is no sanitized nginx file. Attempts to get it running by following Jared Busch's guide yield permissions errors. I cannot create a file where he suggest and I do not know enough about linux to make it work.

Is there anyone here running ScreenConnect with Let's Encrypt for https? (I will leave it on the Windows machine if I have to; moving to Linux was recommended because "it is easier.")

@scottalanmiller Yes, well I can't get nginx working regardless of why, who, or what is involved. I do not understand it and cannot seem to learn it. Which is why I am pleading for help with an alternative. Like Let's Encrypt.

Telling me "it's just standard Nginx" makes me feel like more of a fool because I can't get "just standard nginx" working.

Right now I don't give a shit about whether this or that is the preferred way or if there is some conspiracy theory afoot regarding Windows and Linux.

I just need https functioning on my on-premises ScreenConnect server.

@JaredBusch Thanks mate! Got it running with your export advice.

If I am moving an existing installation from Windows, do I just stop here without creating Admin password on the linux machine and move over the files as directed, which will then use my existing Administrator credentials?

Any JaredBusch guides for setting up Let's Encrypt with ScreenConnect?

I have tried (and have had people here try) to setup nginx but it never works and it just leads to sobbing. I must have some learning disability which prevents me from understanding reverse proxies.

@ flaxking

Thanks mate. I have tried nginx and just don't understand it and can't get it to work.

And I have heard it is easier to run this whole shebang on Linux. Which in my experience isn't true either.

Either way, without proper SSL, ScreenConnect can't be anything more than a hobby application for me.

As the title suggests, I would like to install ScreenConnect on-premises 2019.2 on Fedora 30 and enable Let's Encrypt for SSL.

I am moving from an existing on-premises installation running on Windows for which I was never able to get SSL working.

Does anyone have a guide for this? ScreenConnect support says they will not give support for Let's Encrypt. They also say it is easier to stay on Windows.

I tried installing ScreenConnect server on Fedora 30 only to get myriad unhandled exception errors for which ScreenConnect support suggests I create a ticket on Fedora forums.

Surely, someone has got ScreenConnect with Let's Encrypt running on Fedora 30?

Thank you all.

Turns out for some reason in Remote Desktop I need to use "user" as username and not the account name.

This is not the case on my network, where the actual user name is used.

No Domain; just local user.

I have set up a ZeroTier network with three machines, intending to access a machine from two others. (Not at the same time).

Everything is installed, all machines are connected and authorized and given IP addresses from ZeroTier and it seems to work, however when entering the username and password at the prompt in Remote Desktop I get the error that the username or password are incorrect. Each machine seems to connect to the remote machine, it's just the username or password are not accepted in Remote Desktop.

I know these credentials are correct as I have logged in and out of the machine in question as well as rebooted and have had no issues logging in (via MeshCentral; I am not at the office with the remote machine.)

I have a similar ZeroTier network setup for my own machines and it all works well.

Any ideas on what I am missing?

I have heard good things about Karl Palachuk's books.

Managed Services in a Month is one of them.