There are tons of (unfortunately for me) half-working instructions in the web about how the commands must look like. Data is passed through a server (which allows for all kinds of spying by the way, if the encryption is not good enough!) Data is never directly sent from one computer to the other. This quandary has only one solution: an intermediary is needed. Teamviewer-like products all offer such intermediary servers. In laymans terms this means: You can initiate a connection to the internet, but the internet never can initiate a connection to you. They are usually not set up for Port Forwarding. Teamviewer-like products are so popular because they solve a real problem: To connect from one household computer to another is not straightforward because we all use regular modems/routers to connect to the internet. What to do when Teamviewer suddenly doesn’t connect or you can’t or don’t want to use it for other reasons? What if a friend needs urgent assistance and you need to see his screen to help out? Standard Open Source tools to the rescue! If you know how to use SSH from the command line and have access to an user account on a remote server running SSHD, then this article will save you! Some information may no longer be correct or even relevant.
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