[Resolved] Remote Desktop/Access Recommendations

zacariaz · 2022-09-26 17:46:34

This is one of them "I don't know the right words/terminology" kind of situations.

Basically, I know of two types of remote access, obviously with "sub types" and "genres", which are those mentioned in the title, where everything happens on the remote machine, but it seems to me there should be a third option, provided the two machines are "similar".
Basically, you mirror the remote environment locally, but work with the remote data, without having to stream every pixel, bit and byte, that really isn't needed, when you think about it.

I have no idea what such a setup is called, or if a solution exist at all, but I am rather curious about it, so please enlighten me, if you so desire.

If no such solution is forthcoming, I'd very much like a remote desktop recommendation, as my investigations into the subject, has only revealed, or so it seems, that good solutions are hard to come by, if they exist at all.

Best regards.

Last edited by zacariaz (2022-09-27 18:07:18)

Slithery · 2022-09-26 18:50:31

No modern remote desktop solutions 'stream every pixel'. The compression algorithms that they use are smart enough so that only the changed data is transmitted.

Trilby · 2022-09-26 18:51:19

It sounds like you just want network file sharing like samba, or perhaps just sshfs. (note: I have very limited expereince with such tools, so actually best approaches should be informed by other posts).

Last edited by Trilby (2022-09-27 13:29:00)

zacariaz · 2022-09-27 09:45:51

Trilby wrote:

It sounds like you just want network file sharing like samba, or perhaps just sshfs.

That could work, but it wouldn't exactly be the same experience. You'd be working with two machines, instead of just one, and it would be your responsibility to keep track of changes, on one system or another. Wel, I don't really know. Perhaps it's not all that bad, really, I just thought, perhaps, someone had made a clever solution.

seth · 2022-09-27 13:06:25

You'd be working with two machines, instead of just one, and it would be your responsibility to keep track of changes, on one system or another.

And how does that not fit

Basically, you mirror the remote environment locally, but work with the remote data

?

You can use a remote FS (NFS missing in Trilby's list) for shared data and something like etckeeper and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dotfiles and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … n_programs and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Syncthing and whatnot else syncing solution to sync the system/configuration.

zacariaz · 2022-09-27 18:06:46

seth wrote:

You'd be working with two machines, instead of just one, and it would be your responsibility to keep track of changes, on one system or another.
And how does that not fit
Basically, you mirror the remote environment locally, but work with the remote data
?
You can use a remote FS (NFS missing in Trilby's list) for shared data and something like etckeeper and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dotfiles and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … n_programs and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Syncthing and whatnot else syncing solution to sync the system/configuration.

I'll look into it, and mark the thread as resolved, as apparently what I seek, doesn't make a lot of sense to anyone but me. Who knows, perhaps, in time, I'll come up with a clever solution, and share it, I had just hoped that one existed.

Thanks for the help and advice, which, as always, is very appreciated, and best regards.

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