RustDesk web client

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I’ve started playing with the RustDesk container, and seeing some drawbacks because this is accessed over VNC. Mainly that settings in the GUI gets reverted when the container restarts, and I don’t think it’s possible for multiple persons to use this web UI at the same time to connect to multiple remote machines?

RustDesk have a web client RustDesk web client V2 Preview — RustDesk, would it be an idea to have that as a container instead of the full client?

There is already a container available that runs the web client, but that is hopelessly outdated (bottom here) Web :: Documentation for RustDesk

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I have not seen this, it generally implies that your container is not configured according to the readme, please share your compose.

Correct, it is not multiuser, you would launch 1 container per user

3

I didn’t map any folder while testing this, that might be the problem. Still, I just stopped and started the same container, so I don’t expect any settings inside the container to be reset.

services:
  rustdesk:
    container_name: rustdesk
    image: linuxserver/rustdesk:latest
    network_mode: "host"
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
        - CUSTOM_USER=[USER]
        - PASSWORD=[PASSWORD]

I’m trying to achieve a setup where I have around 5 clients (pc to be remotely controlled) connecting back to my selfhosted RustDesk server, as described in the documentation.

To avoid installing the client on every machine that will be used for remote control (would be 10++), I want to set up a selfhosted client accessible in a web browser, ideally this should allow up to 5 people to remote control my 5 machines at the same time.

4

You need to follow the container readme, items marked optional are optional, items not marked optional are not optional. You did not have persistent storage, so you lost all data when you restarted the container. There are a number of other things that will cause problems in your setup as shown as well, i suggest reading the container readme.

As mentioned, you would need one container per user

5

Sure, my bad. This compose file was just something I threw together to test basic functionality. So persistence of settings is not an issue.

But my suggestion to have the web client as a container still stands. I believe that would allow multiple users to remote control multiple hosts at the same time. And having that capability would be very useful.