Chrome Remote Desktop adds Linux to supported OS list Google has tweaked Chrome Remote Desktop to let it access Linux machines. Chrome Remote Desktop is a Chrome (the browser) extension that provides remote access to another desktop. Often suggested as a remote support tool, the technology is also a nice way to access a remote PC on which you left that file you really need to …
I have been driving my remote Debian based machines (RasberryPi-headless, Xubuntu, etc) using TiightVNC server and VNC viewer (from Chrome app store) for a while now.
Using an old single-core Athlon based PC (c.10yrs old) the desktop runs beautifully on my HP Chrome book, LibreOffice/ Gimp etc - and the GUI often runs faster over VNC than it does on the host machine due to better graphics on the Chromebook, I guess.
Anyway, I'm pleased to see even more options and flexibility for the Linux desktop - and to paraphrase Mark Twain - "The reports of [the Linux desktop's] death are greatly exaggerated."
Yes your missing the share everything with Google angle. Traditional remote access via SSH, VNC, X, Rdesktop, etc. work between consenting hosts and do not involve a man-in-the-middle.
Your choice: stay safer, with privacy, or join the brave new world and drop your knickers for the G-man.
[To A/C] > Your choice: stay safer, with privacy, or join the brave new world and....
Yes, consider these things and rightly so, but as I am using VNC with my Raspberry Pi (pw default 'raspberry') to photograph Swallows nesting in my garage I won't be too paranoid about Google/GCHQ et al seeing what I'm up to. They are hardly weird selfies after all ;-)
Does anyone know how this works? If it needs an intermediate server (typically to do NAT traversal), can that be your own server or is Google involved in the chain from extension to desktop? If it's the latter I would personally avoid it.
Having said that, Teamviewer is no different in that respect, and nor are other solutions. As long as your access goes via a 3rd party you ought to worry.
Hmm, let me see.
Code by: supplier. Service by: supplier. Assurances of security: by supplier.
Yup, sounds legit.
The idea was to see if anyone has picked up something - in other words, NOT the supplier. Past experience suggests that "trust" and "Google" don't sit well in the same sentence without "absolutely not" somewhere in between.
I've had Chrome Remote Desktop on my Linux boxes for months now, so I'm wondering what's changed?
I decided I'd allow the de facto man-in-the-middle spying by the G man to make it easier to set up remoting to a Windows box as server. Problem was that it was pointless - last I looked it didn't support UAC so as soon as you had to do anything privileged, it was game over. Did they fix that?
I think you'll find that most cases that require a lot of remote access, all the systems are running Pro versions of Windows because after you get past a certain number of machines domain support is pretty much a requirement. If you're just talking about your toy computers at home...
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