[Ilugc] creating a FOSS alternate for Teamviewer
- From: ashwin.chn@xxxxxxxxx (ashwin kesavan)
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:51:23 +0530
On 17 December 2010 15:09, Yogesh Girikumar <yogeshg1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
2010/12/17 Sathishkumar Duraisamy <flowerslab at gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:57 PM, R.Kanagaraj (RK) <kanagaraj.rk at gmail.com
wrote:
A very good idea. I welcome the developer for it.
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com
wrote:
Is it possible for us to create a FOSS alternate for Teamviewer?
Shall we start working on this?
Thats good idea. I personally haven't used teamviewer. If there is no FOSS
alternative, then we proceed.
At the moment, there doesn't seem to be any good alternatives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software>The
underlying protocols (on which the whole issue of remote desktops are based)
also need some programming love.
These are my thoughts,
Remote desktop software and vpn are not the same. You can do remote
desktop to a machine on public ip open on internet and you have
sufficient credentials and needed ports are open. For this we already
have solutions in place like remote desktop (RDC, remote desktop
connection) for windows from Linux 9atleast it is available in ubuntu
and fedora) and vnc and x11 are available in Linux. But what
teamviewer does that is not available in other tools is that it make
session sharing possible over port 80 (i think so), it is able to
navigate through proxies. This remote desktop sharing is made possible
by creating a invisble vpn session and that session is given to only a
GUI that does remote desktop and file transfer and remote audio
possible. So analysing protocols willl be long way to do it. Instead
we should be able to reverse engineer the product, like the way gnu
makes many of its things work on windows and build a opensource
quivalent.
with regards,
ashwin
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