Hi folks,

Been using self hosted rust desk option for a while now. Great program and it’s very easy to use, honestly much more smooth than team viewer which kept logging me out.

Speaking of logging in, it’s now asking me to do that. While I could, I thought since it’s self hosted it wouldn’t need this step and am not thrilled that it would make me rely on big tech still.

I’m self hosting the relay server but it just uses an ip without any certificate, wondering if that’s the reason.

Has anyone hit this issue? Any known fixes besides logging in? Can anyone confirm whether it would be solved if the relay server used a proper domain with https?

Here is the link from the screenshot and as always, thanks in advance. Love this community!

  • psycotica0@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Ah, the Relay Server is only half of the service! If I understand correctly from the documentation I skimmed, and my existing knowledge of streaming systems, the relay server is just there to handle relaying the video stream from one device to another one in the worst-case-scenario that they can’t reach each other to form a direct client-to-client connection.

    So probably your relay server has never been used.

    But that’s just for media, and just for bad network configurations. The actual part that coordinates who can see which devices, etc, and sets up the media connections, is the other server, which it sounds like you’re not running. So your services are currently still using the public server to find each other and initiate contact!