The stovallhut NAS has support for letting users connect to each other's desktop.
¶ Invite another user to connect to your desktop
To allow other users to connect to your desktop, connect to the VPN and then lauch your browswer to remote.stovallhut.online. Click on [Downloads] and then (64 bit) Windows EXE. Run the app that downloads. It should connect to the StovallHut Remotely server (https://remote.stovallhut.online) and show you a Session ID.
You'll see a window like that below. Now tell the other person the Session ID you see in the app or push the [Copy] button to put a invite-link on your clipboard.
When the user tries to connect to your desktop, the connection will be blocked till you answer the popup that shows on your desktop.
¶ Install the Invite tool on your Start Menu
To invite connections with a simple Start menu choice in Windows do the following:
- Download the remote-invite tool as shown above.
- Move the Remotely_Desktop.exe from your downloads to some place like C:\bin.
- In Windows Explorer popup on the EXE and select Pin to Start.
- At Windows [Start] menu find item, popup and open file location and name as desired i.e. Invite Remote User.
¶ Connect to a desktop given the Session ID
To connect to another user's desktop, connect to the VPN and login at remote.stovallhut.online. Click on [Remote Control]. Enter your name and the session id.
You can't connect till the remote user answers Yes to the allow-prompt they will now get.
¶ Troubleshooting
¶ Invite does not work - connection error shows instead of Session Id
The Remotely_Desktop.exe you downloaded might be out of date? Note that (at least) on 6/20/24 the client was changed and you must download a new one instead of run an old client on the [Start] menu.