Remote workstation for software development.

[Grabow]

Imagine a workstation that while you are home you use to write and compile software, host file directories, and use to push code to websites like GitHub or GitLab.

 

Now when you are away from home you still want to do work in your mobile machine but don't want to have to fool with downloading/pulling the repo making the changes and pushing/uploading the new changes.

 

You just want to be able to remote in to the home work station do what ever you need that way.

 

What would a setup look like that could support this kind of functionality?

[Windows7ge]

Um...TeamViewer, AnyDesk, RDP, Parsec, VNC Viewer.

 

Remoting into a client for work purposes isn't anything new.

[Grabow]

2 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

Um...TeamViewer, AnyDesk, RDP, Parsec, VNC Viewer.

 

Remoting into a client for work purposes isn't anything new.

I have looked into a few of those and they either don't give you full access to the machine or are is dependent. Wanna be able to do it from Linux, MacOS, Chrome OS, or windows.

[Windows7ge]

2 minutes ago, Grabow said:

I have looked into a few of those and they either don't give you full access to the machine or are is dependent. Wanna be able to do it from Linux, MacOS, Chrome OS, or windows.

Some of these are supported across those platforms. So I'm still not certain what you're after.

[Retrodex Gaming]

Pretty sure RDP is supported over all these OS's now days. That's your best answer! 

[Grabow]

I guess I didn't explain it better. I want to be able to be on any computer, no matter the OS, open a browser and "port" into that machine.

[Retrodex Gaming]

Regardless of the OS there will be some setup, RDP is native to windows but you will still need to port forward on your workstations router & windows firewall from the "server" (Port 3309 I think for RDP). 

 

On the client, you will need to install something, unless it's a windows machine as far as I know. If the client machine has chrome, then there seems to be a browser extension you can install with the functionality to connect to a remote RDP session.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-rdp/cbkkbcmdlboombapidmoeolnmdacpkch

[Grabow]

Hmmmm, was thinking of making the "host/server" machine linux based. However, if I go with windows that might work more as I envision this working.

[Retrodex Gaming]

The host can be linux and still use the RDP protocol. Quick google will bring up a multitude of guides however it doesn't play nice with UNIX systems in my experience!

[Windows7ge]

46 minutes ago, Grabow said:

I guess I didn't explain it better. I want to be able to be on any computer, no matter the OS, open a browser and "port" into that machine.

Then you're looking for one of the before mentioned solutions so regardless of the OS you can remote into the home PC. What about them didn't work?