I did something similar. I installed ZeroTier, OpenSSH server, and TightVNC server on my parents' computers.
Their computers and mine are connected in the same ZeroTier network. I SSH to their computer and connect to VNC over an SSH tunnel. VNC is only bound to 127.0.0.1 so nobody on the network will be able to access it.
Perhaps I could have skipped the SSH part of it since ZeroTier should have covered the network security, but I also wanted an easy way to run commands too.
It's a couple steps to get connected, but it works well.
Agreed. Get all the way on the network, youll be able to troubeshoot more things. Having teamviewer with a hardcoded password is a good fallback. Have two ways in.
Their computers and mine are connected in the same ZeroTier network. I SSH to their computer and connect to VNC over an SSH tunnel. VNC is only bound to 127.0.0.1 so nobody on the network will be able to access it.
Perhaps I could have skipped the SSH part of it since ZeroTier should have covered the network security, but I also wanted an easy way to run commands too.
It's a couple steps to get connected, but it works well.