RustDesk Setup

Info

I use Endeavour OS which is based on Arch Linux. Desktop Environment is KDE Plasma. Firewall application is firewalld (with firewall-config as GUI)

RustDesk is a remote desktop platform. It’s open-source, self-hostable, and seems to be fairly performant.

This guide will setup a self-hosted RustDesk server.

Host Setup

yay -S rustdesk
yay -S rustdesk-server-bin
sudo systemctl enable rustdesk-server-hbbr rustdesk-server-hbbs --now

RustDesk App

In Settings > Network, set the value for ID server as the IP address of the current machine which is host.

In Settings > Security > Password, choose to use only permanent password and set it.

Firewall

In firewall-config app, go to the Ports tab, and open the following,

Port	Protocol
21115-21119	tcp
8000	tcp
21116	udp

Client Setup

Install RustDesk app,

• In Arch Linux, run yay -S rustdesk
• In Windows, install the .exe file.

Open RustDesk app, and in Settings > Network, set the value for ID server as the IP address of the host machine.

That’s it!

Now you should be able to connect to the host from client using host’s ID and password set in the host.