Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect

scottalanmiller

@JasGot said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@notverypunny said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller I can't speak to the Linux agent, but the windows one offers a connect button that does a 1 time connection without installing. Better than team viewer as it pops in the tech console instead of having to get a user id an pw from the user

I haven't seen this connect button, can you elaborate a bit so I can check it out? Thanks.

Not much to say. When you run the installer it fires up a little window that offers "install" or "connect". Choose connect and it gives you an immediate, uninstalled connection that goes away when you are done.

scottalanmiller

@FATeknollogee said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

What's the trick to copy/paste?

Very high on my list of "wants".

Ylian

We got cut & paste almost done on both Linux and Windows. Most of the code is already these, just turned off until we gets it working well. Hopefully in the next week.

scottalanmiller

@Ylian said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

We got cut & paste almost done on both Linux and Windows. Most of the code is already these, just turned off until we gets it working well. Hopefully in the next week.

Woot! Can't wait for that one!

scottalanmiller

Just updated to 0.3.0-d !

pmoncho

updated to 0.3.0-g

scottalanmiller

@pmoncho said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

updated to 0.3.0-g

Here, too. Fast moving week!

scottalanmiller

@pmoncho said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

updated to 0.3.0-g

0.3.0-h now.

scottalanmiller

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@pmoncho said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

updated to 0.3.0-g

0.3.0-h now.

That didn't take long, 0.3.0-i

pmoncho

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@pmoncho said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

updated to 0.3.0-g

Here, too. Fast moving week!

That it is.

So fast, sometimes Auto-update cannot keep up! :winking_face:

scottalanmiller

0.3.0-n

Lots of updates today!

NashBrydges

Realize this thread was comparing to SC but wondering how would this compare to Apache Guacamole? I haven't yet had time to try to set this up but thought I'd ask.

CloudKnight

@NashBrydges said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

Realize this thread was comparing to SC but wondering how would this compare to Apache Guacamole? I haven't yet had time to try to set this up but thought I'd ask.

Guacamole is more a perimeter gateway interface for accessing machines inside of the LAN.
Meshcentral has client agents that you can install on machines and can access these machines across WAN. it's very much more like an RMM product.

scottalanmiller

@NashBrydges said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

Realize this thread was comparing to SC but wondering how would this compare to Apache Guacamole? I haven't yet had time to try to set this up but thought I'd ask.

Quite different overall. Guac is a "gateway" product. It sits in front of a number of RDP, NX, X, VNC connections and presents them over web. It's a proxy type service.

SC is a remote access and control system for support. It does not sit (necessarily) in the same infrastructure and is meant for giving you access to machines "anywhere."

So one is to enhance and aggregate existing protocols. The other is a replacement and different kind of architecture to those protocols.

scottalanmiller

0.3.0-p out now.

scottalanmiller

0.3.0-r we just updated.

pmoncho

Auto-Update through "Check Server Version" has become an issue as of (roughly) 0.3.0-i. Prior to that all was well.

Syslog would show (when running auto-update):

Update completed...
MeshCentral HTTP redirection server running on port 80.
MeshCentral v0.3.0-p, WAN mode.
MeshCentral HTTPS server running on domain.net:443.
SMTP mail server smtp.gmail.com working as expected

As you can see, MC is still on v0.3.0-p

**Edit - Also, there are no errors when clicking "show server error log"

To update, I connect via SSH

cd mc
sudo systemctl stop meshcentral
sudo npm install npm
sudo npm install meshcentral
sudo systemctl start meshcentral

If I don't run sudo npm install npm MC will not update. No clue why I need the extra step.

bnrstnr

Are there ever agent updates that need to be done with MeshCentral?

scottalanmiller

@bnrstnr said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

Are there ever agent updates that need to be done with MeshCentral?

Haven't seen any cases for that yet.

Ylian

@bnrstnr When you update the MeshCentral server, it will auto-update all the agents when needed.