MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?
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I ran across this on another site, and I was curious if any of you have worked with it: https://www.meshcommander.com/meshcentral2. I like the idea of being able to drop a Raspberry Pi on a site and then use it for remote admin of Windows machines. Assuming the software itself is secure it would be much simpler to provide remote support than many other tools out there, and much more inexpensive.
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I only read the homepage - if you can run this from a VM in say Vultr, this could be cool - much less expensive than Connectwise.
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Interesting.
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NEver seen it, but certainly seems to have potential. Someone install this and try it out!
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@Dashrender said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
much less expensive than Connectwise.
Less features too.
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I've just glanced at the home page here. Are the clients all talking back to an internet server you log into?
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@travisdh1 said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
I've just glanced at the home page here. Are the clients all talking back to an internet server you log into?
They talk back to where ever the config file tells them to talk.
You can install the host anywhere you want.For me, it would obviously be based on some publicly available location with proper DNS resolution.
It uses only ports 80/443, but has some optional port 4443 active or something by default. The video wasn't real clear.
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@JaredBusch said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
@Dashrender said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
much less expensive than Connectwise.
Less features too.
Going to backtrack that statement after watching the video. All the big features seem to be there.
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Wow, and fully multi client ready.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral/master/readme.txt
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@JaredBusch said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
@JaredBusch said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
@Dashrender said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
much less expensive than Connectwise.
Less features too.
Going to backtrack that statement after watching the video. All the big features seem to be there.
Wow, that's crazy. Now I'm excited.
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Video looks like Windows only? No Mac or Linux?
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In the video he mentioned "DOS or Linux terminal". But shows CMD. It's unclear if he used the term correctly and it supports Linux, or if he is oddly referring to the concept of a command line as being "Linux?"
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@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
In the video he mentioned "DOS or Linux terminal". But shows CMD. It's unclear if he used the term correctly and it supports Linux, or if he is oddly referring to the concept of a command line as being "Linux?"
- Stop skimming.
- Pay attention.
- How the hell would you expect a Linux terminal to be shown when the only guest computer was a windows computer in the video?
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Ah, video appears to not be current. Linux is mentioned on one of their pages if you hunt around. No mention of macOS, though.
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@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
Ah, video appears to not be current. Linux is mentioned on one of their pages if you hunt around.
WTF.... It is mentioned directly in the beginning of the video.
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@JaredBusch said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
In the video he mentioned "DOS or Linux terminal". But shows CMD. It's unclear if he used the term correctly and it supports Linux, or if he is oddly referring to the concept of a command line as being "Linux?"
- Stop skimming.
- Pay attention.
- How the hell would you expect a Linux terminal to be shown when the only guest computer was a windows computer in the video?
Where did I skim? I'm digging for this info. There doesn't appear to be anywhere that they list what platforms the agents run on. Google found nothing, either.
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@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
No mention of macOS, though.
But no one cared anyway
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@JaredBusch said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
Ah, video appears to not be current. Linux is mentioned on one of their pages if you hunt around.
WTF.... It is mentioned directly in the beginning of the video.
NO, that's where the server can be installed, not where the agents can.
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@JaredBusch said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
No mention of macOS, though.
But no one cared anyway
Um... how many people use this kind of stuff and only want to remotely view Windows and Linux? Nearly all have to deal with Mac. Way more than have to deal with Linux.
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@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
@JaredBusch said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:
No mention of macOS, though.
But no one cared anyway
Um... how many people use this kind of stuff and only want to remotely view Windows and Linux? Nearly all have to deal with Mac. Way more than have to deal with Linux.
Still, no one cared though.
