Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect

scottalanmiller

@black3dynamite said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@dafyre said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

Have y'all tried it with a system that uses Wayland yet? Or are your clients mainly Windows?

We use a bit of Linux, but probably none with Wayland.

So you haven't installed it on Fedora Gnome?

No, we don't use Gnome anywhere.

dafyre

On a fresh netinstall of Fedora 29, it mostly doesn't work. It does show up in MeshCenral. And I tested both Desktop and Terminal and neither of them worked.

Going to try with SELinux off and see what happens.

StuartJordan

Does anyone know if there is going to be a support side to this tool, It looks like it could be implemented on the web page by entering a support code to download a client, like screen connect.

scottalanmiller

@StuartJordan said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

Does anyone know if there is going to be a support side to this tool, It looks like it could be implemented on the web page by entering a support code to download a client, like screen connect.

You can already do something kind of like that. It's slightly different, but the "click to download a client" functionality is there.

scottalanmiller

There is a built in mailer, or you can just provide a link. The "Invite" button is the easiest way. I really wish that that button produced a link locally, too.

DustinB3403

Just to ask a dumb question as I havent set this up.

This page here is saying to install a trusted cert, is it installing a self-signed cert or is it setting up letsencrypt?

I assume the former but am just asking as it really makes no sense.

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

Just to ask a dumb question as I havent set this up.

This page here is saying to install a trusted cert, is it installing a self-signed cert or is it setting up letsencrypt?

I assume the former but am just asking as it really makes no sense.

It'll do either. You control the setting. Turn on LE, and it gets its own LE cert and manages it for you.

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller So it'll go through and install LE and get the cert and everything?

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller So it'll go through and install LE and get the cert and everything?

yup

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@DustinB3403 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller So it'll go through and install LE and get the cert and everything?

yup

damn that's really nice.

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@DustinB3403 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller So it'll go through and install LE and get the cert and everything?

yup

damn that's really nice.

It really is. It's amazing how well polished a lot of this stuff is already. Way ahead of the competition.

dafyre

I really like what I'm seeing out of it so far, for sure.

Has anybody tested the Chat features? I can't seem to get that working between two computers on my network. (Tried both Windows and Linux).

File uploading works for me.

scottalanmiller

@dafyre said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

I really like what I'm seeing out of it so far, for sure.

Has anybody tested the Chat features? I can't seem to get that working between two computers on my network. (Tried both Windows and Linux).

File uploading works for me.

Chat did not work for us.

StuartJordan

@scottalanmiller I'm on latest version but haven't seen the invite link, I'll have to double check though.

scottalanmiller

@StuartJordan said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller I'm on latest version but haven't seen the invite link, I'll have to double check though.

Did you set up SMTP?

StuartJordan

@scottalanmiller I haven't yet no, does the link only appear once you have entered SMTP settings?

scottalanmiller

@StuartJordan said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller I haven't yet no, does the link only appear once you have entered SMTP settings?

Correct

black3dynamite

Ok, on the same fedora minimal install, I install nodemailer and created an email.js file with following code:

var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');

var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
    host: '10.254.0.96',
    port: 25,
    secure: false, //true --> will use ssl
});

var mailOptions = {
    from: '[email protected]',
    to: '[email protected], [email protected]',
    subject: 'Hello',
    text: 'Hello world',
    html: '<b>Hello world </b>'
};

transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, function(error, info) {
    if (error) {
        console.log(error);
    } else {
        console.log('Message sent: ' + info.response);
    }
    transporter.close();
});

And then I ran node email.js and was able to send and received emails.

But when I add the host, port, from, and tls information I don't see the invite link or can verify emails.

"smtp": {
        "host": "10.254.0.96",
        "port": 25,
        "from": "[email protected]",
        "tls": false
    }

Besides that everything else is awesome.

syko24

@black3dynamite said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

Ok, on the same fedora minimal install, I install nodemailer and created an email.js file with following code:
var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');

var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
    host: '10.254.0.96',
    port: 25,
    secure: false, //true --> will use ssl
});

var mailOptions = {
    from: '[email protected]',
    to: '[email protected], [email protected]',
    subject: 'Hello',
    text: 'Hello world',
    html: '<b>Hello world </b>'
};

transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, function(error, info) {
    if (error) {
        console.log(error);
    } else {
        console.log('Message sent: ' + info.response);
    }
    transporter.close();
});
And then I ran node email.js and was able to send and received emails.

But when I add the host, port, from, and tls information I don't see the invite link or can verify emails.
"smtp": {
        "host": "10.254.0.96",
        "port": 25,
        "from": "[email protected]",
        "tls": false
    }
Besides that everything else is awesome.

@black3dynamite - I noticed that sometimes when you make changes to the json file and restart the services, you need to close your browser completely and even clear your history at times for the page to show updates properly.

scottalanmiller

0.2.5-l is out.