Rustdesk-server Alternatives

rustdesk-server reviews and mentions

• Rustdesk Server Pro allegedly violates AGPL license by not distributing source
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2025

  The free community version of Rustdesk Server (a competitor to the Teamviewer remote access software) is AGPL licensed.

  https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server

  The paid, proprietary Pro version builds on top of the community edition by adding extra features such as user authentication and a web backend for administration.

  There exists a repo for the pro server: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server-pro

  But it only contains install scripts and no actual source code of the application.

  The github releases page of this repo however, contains the compiled code of the proprietary pro version and is available for anyone to download for free.

  Analyzing the disassembly of the pro and open source binaries shows that the pro version is definitely based on the open source version.

  There have been multiple requests for the source code of this pro version, but either there was no response or the issue was closed without comment.

• Ask HN: Alternative to Teamviewer?
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2024

  Run 2 instances of the Docker container rustdesk/rustdesk-server with hhbr and hhbs and it will work locally. It can also work in a single container with the s6 overlay variant.

  https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server

• RustDesk - Self Hosted Setup Guide
  3 projects | /r/rustdesk | 20 Nov 2023

  WD=/opt/rustdesk #rm $WD/ -R mkdir -p $WD/{setup,data,web} cd $WD/setup cat << 'EOF' >docker-compose.yaml version: '3.7' #Links #https://hub.docker.com/r/rustdesk/rustdesk-server/tags #https://rustdesk.com/docs/en/self-host/rustdesk-server-oss/docker/ #https://github.com/DoTheEvo/selfhosted-apps-docker/tree/master/rustdesk #https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server#s6-overlay-based-images #https://rustdesk.com/docs/en/self-host/rustdesk-server-pro/relay/ #https://rustdesk.com/docs/en/dev/build/web/ services: rustdesk_server: container_name: rustdesk_server hostname: rustdesk_server image: ${SERVER_IMAGE} # network_mode: host networks: - rustdesk_net ports: - 21115:21115 - 21116:21116 - 21116:21116/udp - 21117:21117 - 21118:21118 - 21119:21119 volumes: - type: bind source: /opt/rustdesk/data/ target: /data environment: - 'TZ=${TZ}' - 'RELAY=${RELAY}' - 'ENCRYPTED_ONLY=${ENCRYPTED_ONLY}' - 'KEY_PUB=${KEY_PUB}' - 'KEY_PRIV=${KEY_PRIV}' rustdesk_web: container_name: rustdesk_web hostname: rustdesk_web image: pmietlicki/rustdesk-web-client:latest # network_mode: host networks: - rustdesk_net ports: - 5000:5000 volumes: #docker cp rustdesk_web:/app . #sed -i -e 's/supportdesk.itportaal.nl/sub.domain.com/g' ./app/build/web/main.dart.js #sed -i -e 's/OvYPJS8I5xV+d6sx3a7Ce9TVakfKdT3Zy3T7C1jjx+A=/PUBKEY/g' ./app/build/web/main.dart.js - type: bind source: /opt/rustdesk/web/app/ target: /app - type: bind source: /opt/rustdesk/data/ target: /root environment: - 'TZ=${TZ}' networks: rustdesk_net: driver: bridge EOF

• Tutorial: Compile RustDesk-Server for a Raspberry Pi 1 (ARMv6)
  1 project | /r/rustdesk | 16 Jun 2023

  git clone https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server.git --branch 1.1.7-4

• Looking for ideas / solutions
  1 project | /r/sysadmin | 30 May 2023
• Extremely confusing instructions!
  2 projects | /r/rustdesk | 7 May 2023

  Rustdesk also may or may not require the installation of a relay/rendezvous server, which is where the confusion starts: one may use the free Rustdesk public server, or install one's own, custom-built server, for which Rustdesk provides a "free open source and free server program"; dub this "server2."

• Remote desktop connection to a Debian gui
  2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 14 Apr 2023
• Tips &amp; Tricks for Productivity with BOOX (Obsidian, Syncthing, Weylus, RustDesk, Termux, KDE Connect, ZeroTier) + 2 Bonus Screensavers
  12 projects | /r/Onyx_Boox | 12 Apr 2023

  Ever wanted to remotely access your desktop from anywhere, then tried software like TeamViewer, but it eventually stopped working? Try open source RustDesk that is simple to set up, and you can even self-host your own rendezvous/relay server (or use the free public server). RustDesk allows you to access your desktop computer from your BOOX device. I often use it to see what is going on when I am running some simulations remotely (below is a screenshot of my Tab Ultra accessing my laptop). Because I use a dark theme on all my LCD/OLED devices, I invert the display colors of my laptop to get a better-looking video feed on my Tab Ultra (I believe light themes look much better on e-ink).

• Remote desktop using Remmina
  2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 24 Mar 2023
• Rustdesk is slow
  2 projects | /r/rustdesk | 24 Feb 2023

  The last I checked the Windows version of the server was a few versions behind. So if you use that version it might not have all the features of the current server version on Linux. You can go here https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server/releases and look for release 1.1.6-2 to find the Windows version of the server.

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