Remote computing: TeamViewer

TeamViewer is a remote access software, free for non-commercial users. It allows:

• remote administration and support;
• file transfer between partner computers;
• browser based access
• to work behind firewalls

Security is granted via RSA private/public key exchange and AES (256 bit)encoding.
Supported platforms are:

• MS Windows
• MAC
• Linux
• iPhone/iPad

 The software package can be downloaded from here (Linux page). Once done, run the installation software

MS Windows installation

Ubuntu 10.04 installation

OpenSUSE 11.3 installation

Installation steps are easy and documented, and OpenSUSE installation (i.e. RPM) it's even simpler.
Running TeamViewer provides you with an initial dialog showing an ID and a password for your actual session or asking you an ID of an already existing TeamViewer

Linux dialog

MS Windows dialog

By clicking the bottom right button, a further dialog opens for easier management of partners

TeamViewer signup page

Once registered and signed in

where connections can be very easily handled.

Ubuntu remotely by a Windows box and viceversa

Windows via TeamViewer web quick connection

Two Windows boxes remotely from an OpenSUSE 11.3 desktop

Generally speaking, TeamViewer works fine and performances seem (I haven't run any measurable test yet) a little better than LogMeIn, particularly, the Linux software is more stable, even though running under Wine

23707   Sl   12:04   0:25 c:\Program Files\TeamViewer\Version5\TeamViewer.exe
23774   Ss   12:04   0:10 /opt/teamviewer/teamviewer/5/wine/bin/wineserver
23777   Sl   12:04   0:00 C:\windows\system32\services.exe