Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect

scottalanmiller

For those hosting this in a normal way (on cloud, VPS, etc.), don't forget to set WANOnly in your config file.

scottalanmiller

The invite feature is working well, too.

scottalanmiller

Install fails on Solus. Bug report opened.

scottalanmiller

Tried Zorin. Agent installs fine. Remote terminal works. But remote screen does not.

StuartJordan

Yep just tried it on a win7 vm, Kaspersky goes nuts lol...
Annoying will have to exclude manually.

scottalanmiller

No issues with Windows Defender

scottalanmiller

Doing some side by side testing against SC and MC is blowing its doors off in performance. Both the interface performance and remote session performance!

StuartJordan

The features are already brilliant and it's still in Beta...defiantly could be a viable solution, after all SC is not exactly a low cost product.

notverypunny

@StuartJordan said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

Yep just tried it on a win7 vm, Kaspersky goes nuts lol...
Annoying will have to exclude manually.

I seem to hit something similar with Trend but it doesn't give any warnings or logs that I could find, just allows the install to continue but it sits broken and unusable

scottalanmiller

@Ylian is out for the holidays. So expect no updates for a few days.

scottalanmiller

Finally got around to putting LetsEncrypt certs on my MC install

Ylian

@StuartJordan said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

Kaspersky

I asked to be whitelisted by Kaspersky a few months back and they approved. I will need to check that again.

We have our own WebRTC stack in the MeshAgent which is quite unique. However, Firefox v64 just broke it (Looking into it), Chrome works. With WebRTC traffic goes directly from the browser to the agent bypassing the server. Should be faster, scale better and lower hosting costs.

Yes, I am traveling for the next 5 days, will be back with updates soon. Got plenty to work on.

Ylian

black3dynamite

I need to test MC with Sophos.

scottalanmiller

@Ylian said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

We have our own WebRTC stack in the MeshAgent which is quite unique. However, Firefox v64 just broke it (Looking into it), Chrome works. With WebRTC traffic goes directly from the browser to the agent bypassing the server. Should be faster, scale better and lower hosting costs.

Yes, we use that here and it's SCREAMING fast!!

black3dynamite

@scottalanmiller Are using Ubuntu current or LTS?

scottalanmiller

@black3dynamite said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller Are using Ubuntu current or LTS?

Current

FATeknollogee

I'm getting an error trying to setup LE:

MeshCentral HTTP redirection web server running on port 81.
ERROR: Redirection web server must be active on port 80 for Let's Encrypt to work.
MeshCentral v0.2.5-d, WAN mode.
MeshCentral HTTPS web server running on control.meshexample.com:444.

My config.json:

  "settings": {
    "MongoDb": "mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/meshcentral",
    "MongoDbCol": "meshcentral",
    "WANonly": true,
    "_LANonly": true,
    "_Minify": 1,
    "_SessionTime": 30,
    "_SessionKey": "MyReallySecretPassword",
    "_Port": 443,
    "RedirPort": 80,

scottalanmiller

No proxy in front of it, right?

scottalanmiller

Have you tried it with no RedirPort setting at all? I have nothing set and it works fine. 80 is the default.

FATeknollogee

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

No proxy in front of it, right?

No proxy.