First I'd heard of it, and, (according to a Wikipedia article)free for personal and commercial use?
https://www.nomachine.com/
Tinkering thru the settings after the install, certainly not as easy as Teamviewer, but, worthy of investigation for folks looking for free options.
Rather than just connecting by simple number/password, it required noting an IP address on opening screen (a little confusion as to which specific IP address to give, as mine showed 3 separate addresses, possibly because of some virtualization options)
Options included prompting at either/both ends for allowing connections to proceed, plus a variety of options on what could/could not be accessed.
With my 5-10 minutes of tinkering in assorted settings, I did not see an option for configuring any sort of password, but, perhaps I just missed it somewhere, but, the website claims it is 'secure', but, simply using their secure protocol or SSH and without a password entered, and if permission was given to connect without user intervention in advance, that would seem dubious from a security perspective if/when installed on any system. (admittedly, someone would need to know the service is running, IP address and port number, but, most would feel better with some sort of complex password, I'd think. Perhaps I'm overthinking it as a potential attack vector?)
Again, for remote support, it appears user will have to give tech the IP address and port number after install, and, a reboot was required....
But, for fans of free stuff.....might have some utility in some scenarios..
https://www.nomachine.com/
Tinkering thru the settings after the install, certainly not as easy as Teamviewer, but, worthy of investigation for folks looking for free options.
Rather than just connecting by simple number/password, it required noting an IP address on opening screen (a little confusion as to which specific IP address to give, as mine showed 3 separate addresses, possibly because of some virtualization options)
Options included prompting at either/both ends for allowing connections to proceed, plus a variety of options on what could/could not be accessed.
With my 5-10 minutes of tinkering in assorted settings, I did not see an option for configuring any sort of password, but, perhaps I just missed it somewhere, but, the website claims it is 'secure', but, simply using their secure protocol or SSH and without a password entered, and if permission was given to connect without user intervention in advance, that would seem dubious from a security perspective if/when installed on any system. (admittedly, someone would need to know the service is running, IP address and port number, but, most would feel better with some sort of complex password, I'd think. Perhaps I'm overthinking it as a potential attack vector?)
Again, for remote support, it appears user will have to give tech the IP address and port number after install, and, a reboot was required....
But, for fans of free stuff.....might have some utility in some scenarios..
