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RustDesk

RustDesk allows to share your desktop remotely with someone else, like AnyDesk, TeamViewer, etc. However it is self-hosted (can be installed on your own server).

note

The free plan does not have the web console and some advanced features, but it still allows sharing the desktop.

We will install it inside a container called utils.

1. Create a container​

We can create a new container with the script create-container.sh that we have seen before:

#wget https://linux-cli.fs.al/apps/part6/create-container.sh
#chmod +x create-container.sh

./create-container.sh utils 10.31.96.205
incus ls

2. Forward the ports​

hostname -I
HOST_IP=65.109.96.100

incus network forward list incusbr0
incus network forward show incusbr0 $HOST_IP

CONTAINER_IP=10.31.96.205
incus network forward port add \
      incusbr0 $HOST_IP \
      tcp 21115-21118 \
      $CONTAINER_IP
incus network forward port add \
      incusbr0 $HOST_IP \
      udp 21116 \
      $CONTAINER_IP

incus network forward show incusbr0 $HOST_IP

3. Install RustDesk​

incus shell utils

mkdir -p /root/rustdesk/
cd /root/rustdesk/
cat <<EOF > compose.yml
services:
  hbbs:
    container_name: hbbs
    image: rustdesk/rustdesk-server:latest
    command: hbbs
    volumes:
      - ./data:/root
    ports:
      - "21115:21115"
      - "21116:21116"
      - "21116:21116/udp"
      - "21118:21118"
    depends_on:
      - hbbr
    restart: unless-stopped

  hbbr:
    container_name: hbbr
    image: rustdesk/rustdesk-server:latest
    command: hbbr
    volumes:
      - ./data:/root
    ports:
      - "21117:21117"
      - "21119:21119"
    restart: unless-stopped
EOF

cat compose.yml
docker compose up -d

ls
ls data/
nano data/id_ed25519.pub

This is the key that should be used by the clients to connect to this server (see the next section).

4. Clients​