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RustDesk server

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Installation of RustDesk server (as per):

  • Network Ports required: TCP 21115-21117, UDP 21116
  • A server with 1 CPU, 1 GB and 10 GB disk is plenty to run RustDesk.

Scripted install

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dinger1986/rustdeskinstall/master/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh
service gohttpserver restart # as otherwise web server auth won't work

Web server only provide download option for two shell scripts (for Linux & Windows) available at /opt/gohttp/public/. MacOS script work in progress.

Scripted update

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/techahold/rustdeskinstall/master/update.sh
chmod +x update.sh
./update.sh
crontab -e
5 1 * * SUN /root/update.sh >> /root/rust_desk_update.log 2>&1

Docker

Not in use.

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexander-potemkin/quickies/main/docker_ubuntu.sh | bash
sudo usermod -aG docker `whoami`

vi compose.yml:

services:
  hbbs:
    container_name: hbbs
    ports:
      - 21115:21115
      - 21116:21116
      - 21116:21116/udp
      - 21118:21118
    image: rustdesk/rustdesk-server:latest
    command: hbbs -r rustdesk.example.com:21117
    volumes:
      - ./data:/root
    depends_on:
      - hbbr
    restart: unless-stopped
    labels:
      - "com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true"


  hbbr:
    container_name: hbbr
    ports:
      - 21117:21117
      - 21119:21119
    image: rustdesk/rustdesk-server:latest
    command: hbbr
    volumes:
      - ./data:/root
    restart: unless-stopped
    labels:
      - "com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true"

Followed by:

docker compose up -d # without '-d' to debug

Here is the key to be used in RustDesk configuration:

cat ./data/id_ed25519.pub

ToDo: not tested; web access is not there.