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How involved of a setup is RDP if most of your systems aren't Windows? I haven't fallen far down the rabbit hole of remote device management, outside of some basic familiarity with SSH. (One particular use case I've been itching to try, but have no idea where to start, is using one system as a secondary display for another. Can an RDP session do this, or is it limited strictly to mirroring?)

Incidentally ZeroTier is new to me, and an interesting rabbit hole in itself (along with the BSL, which is also a first-time read) since I'm in a similar spot with VPNs.




ZeroTier is a breeze to setup. I'd like to use WireGuard, but it wasn't immediately obvious how I'd achieve a "bridged lan" setup. I had used SoftEther for some time but my configuration was brittle.

I RDP into my Windows desktop from my laptop running Ubuntu and my iPhone without trouble. I use Remmina on Ubuntu[0], and the Microsoft RDP app [1] on iOS.

Before this I was fiddling with TightVNC and a reverse SSH'ing from Window, but ultimately RDP through ZeroTier was (surprisingly) the easiest and most stable way I acheived.

[0] https://remmina.org/

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/remote-desktop-mobile/id714464...




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