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I want to set up 5 powerful computers to run Mechanical Engineering software in my home office, and give remote access to my contractors on a daily basis. Which remote access works best for me? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by imp0ster666@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I am an independent contractor that contracts out to my interns that are spread around the whole country. I am still a small business that would like to make an efficient and affordable setup. So far, I have figured that for $500 a piece, I can buy pretty good refurbished PC from ebay and set up my software on them. What is the best bang for buck remote access I can deploy to have very smooth remote access system going on? I have read that windows RDP is a free option. Is there a exponentially better paid option that won't break the bank for me? What would you guys recommend?

Another reason I want to do this is that we don't have to deal with file transfer back and forth. I would like to keep the files in these computers. This bring me to my next question. Is it possible to set up a single drive that contains all the files and no matter whichever computer they have remoted in, they would save the files in one central location?

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[–] PVTD@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If they need tow work with 3D accelerated software, best not use RDP. Go for Parsec or similar. Parsec is free with paid plans for multiple monitors and more. It has been solid for gaming over internet when I travel with my laptop and is being used by teams at LTT for video editing.

[–] aracheb@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

3d work find over rdp

[–] PVTD@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Fine, not great, choppy, not perfect, if his clients want optimal colour accuracy or smooth panning or one of the other million things to consider when working in any type of 3D program, RDP is going to suck super hard. Fine is not OK.If they need to edit Word docs, I mean, sure it will work fine.+ it's fairly easy to set up and uses less BW when using H265 ;)
Edit: some software need better mouse support too, otherwise moving will have those spastic 5mil% movespeeds.