Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect
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@scottalanmiller Published MeshCentral v0.4.5-f that should fix a problem with the web application.
@hobbit666 When you update the server, all agents are automatically updated. -
@Ylian said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Published MeshCentral v0.4.5-f that should fix a problem with the web application.
Updating now.
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0.4.5-l today
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Now at 0.4.5-t
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What operating systems does the MeshCentral Agent support?
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Ok, after reviewing, I am seeing Linux and Windows. What about Macs?
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@VoIP_n00b said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
What operating systems does the MeshCentral Agent support?
Windows, Linux and MacOS
Here's a nice collection of Linux distros
https://www.republicofit.com/topic/18627/meshcentral-agent-supported-linux-distros -
@black3dynamite How are you liking it?
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@VoIP_n00b said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@black3dynamite How are you liking it?
Its been working great at work. I also use it to help friends and family.
Remote Desktop doesn't work with Linux distros that is using Wayland session.
When you want to remote desktop into a Linux distro, make sure you are using Xorg.
It doesn't work with Wayland. -
0.4.5-w just released.
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@black3dynamite MeshCentral should be able to (I think) support Wayland, what distribution are you using?
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@Ylian in case you've not seen it, we are running an update thread now, too...
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@Ylian said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@black3dynamite MeshCentral should be able to (I think) support Wayland, what distribution are you using?
Fedora 31 GNOME. I just get a black screen when using Wayland but its all fine with Xorg.
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@scottalanmiller Thanks for the new link. Just bookmarked it.
@black3dynamite Thanks for the distro, I will pass that to Bryan so he can test the agent with it. -
@Ylian Added a feature request discussion. For us, this one is the difference between full production and just "sometimes"... for use in a larger org or an MSP, it'll make all the difference.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/20982/meshcentral-feature-request-user-groups
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@Ylian, Quick question what is the agent tag supposed to be used for? I see I can set it via the -tag:xxx after triggering a full install from the cli but since I cant find a way from the GUI to filter for it, I am not sure what it is for.
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@Romo said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
since I cant find a way from the GUI to filter for it
When in the GUI, you can ease it as a search term. It gets picked up by the general full text search. You can't filter by tag (I vote for this feature, though), but you can search by it.
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@scottalanmiller This are different tags
Red Agent tag set via :
.\mc.exe -fullinstall -tag:xlabBlue Tags are set via the webpage
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@Romo That is correct, the red "Agent Tag" is a "meshagent.tag" text file that is in the same folder that the "meshagent.exe". It can contain up to 1k of data sent to the server on each agent start. It's there so if you have some sort of automatic installation of the agent, you can put a serial number of something in that file and it gets sent up to the server. It pre-dates the other blue tagging that is server side only.
All this to say, the two tagging systems are completely separate. I can add you a "atag:<agenttag>" filter if you like? Let me know what you need.
