MRemote Lives! (A Fork)

[B]

I've run mremote for under a year now, and it's a great, very polished, and only slightly quirky app that support <b>multiple</b> remote access protocols, in a functional multipaned application.

Unfortunately it went closed source a couple of years ago (merged into a "visionapp" product line) so I've been using the last open source version of mremote.

I just found out that someone did fork the code to maintain an up to date free and open source version called "MRemoteNG".

https://mremoteng.org/

# RDP (Remote Desktop/Terminal Server)
# VNC (Virtual Network Computing)
# ICA (Citrix Independent Computing Architecture)
# SSH (Secure Shell)
# Telnet (TELecommunication NETwork)
# HTTP/HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
# rlogin
# Raw Socket Connections

I have found MRemote to be a very useful tool. RDP for Windows servers, telnet and ssh for Linux and network equipment, VNC for Macs and other machines, etc., etc., all in the same interface. Great program.

(I imagine the forker will have to change that name at some point to remove "mremote" from the string, if past history with this kind of thing is any indication.)

Changelogs are at http://forum.mremoteng.org/viewforum.php?f=2

Looks like he had to take out the SmartCode VNC engine and replace it with something else... The older, pre-fork 1.5 version is still available at https://mremoteng.org/ (without the "ng")

[averkiev]

Looks like he had to take out the SmartCode VNC engine and replace it with something else... The older, pre-fork 1.5 version is still available at https://mremoteng.org/ (without the "ng")

Felix the mRemote creator purchased a license for ViewerX VNC viewer ActiveX for use with mRemote. When he joined visionApp, he took the license with him. So the new mRemote owners had to purchase a new license or use free alternatives.

[JJM]

IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you thank you thank you. I've gone BACK to mRemote after using buying and VisionApp for a year. Thank you for keeping this product alive.

[plouf]

has anyone experience with that ?
can be used with UVNC DSM plugins and repeater ?

TeamViewer as external?

[B]

I've finally gotten around to installing it (MRemoteNG).

Everything more or less works, but the migration from MRemote was a bit clunky; files were not where they were documented to be, and when I got the configuration copied some VNC setups have full Config options available and some do not...

Yes, it still seems to support external viewer calls. But I have not tried that or any DSM style stuff.

One larger bug (and I don't see it documented anywhere) is that the colors displayed on connection to an OSX VNC (Vines) session are completely whacked out -- blues are replaced by reddish golds, and the reds are blue. I'm sure the bug is specific to the new VNC engine he licensed.

Apparently that's http://cdot.senecac.on.ca/projects/vncsharp/

[ Heck, it's in C#/.Net; maybe it's Microsoft's fault. ]

For now I guess I'm sticking with the older MRemote.