NY wrote:

"Big Al" wrote in message
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I have installed TV14 on 3 machines in the family and all are waiting for
me to call (as a server as you call it). I'm still running free version.

I use it for the same to offer computer support to my parents, including
maintaining a website that they run.

I also used to use it for accessing my "server" computer from a laptop in my
bedroom or from my phone.

Something in the usage that I used triggered the "you are using Teamviewer
professionally" warnings. I never did find out what I'd done "wrong" that
had triggered the warning - they never answered that question when I
contacted them.

I had to fill in a declaration that I really was using Teamviewer only for
in-home use and for helping friends and family, and they restored normal
service.

But I'm cautious about using Teamviewer "too much" so I've installed Real
VNC server on my "server" PC and it was included in Raspian on my Raspberry
Pi, and I've got the client on my laptop and mobile phone. RealVNC seems to
be as good as TV, although with an Android client it does have the annoying
fact that a right-click in Windows requires a double-tap (which is more
difficult to achieve on a mobile phone) rather than a long press that TV
uses. Also RealVNC doesn't have file-transfer capabilities unless you pay
for a subscription which also allows two computers on the same LAN to
communicate within the LAN, rather than (AFAIK) requiring traffic to go up
to RealVNC's server and then back down the same connection to the other
computer. The RaspPi server does support direct, but the Windows server
requires cloud traffic and so is slower - especially when I have a pathetic
1500/448 kbps (kilo, not mega) bit/sec connection.

Both TightVNC and UltraVNC have the file transfer feature. Both are
free; i.e., there is no payware version as with RealVNC. Licensing for
RealVNC is proprietary while TightVNC (and its subsequent TigerVNC
derivative) and UltraVNC are GPL.

https://www.tightvnc.com/intro.php
File transfers in versions for Windows. You can upload files from your
local machine to the TightVNC Server, and download files from the
server to your computer.

TigerVNC was a fork and added some features to TightVNC. While TV (and
UltraVNC) has the file transfer feature, seems to duplicate what you
could do using an FTP server on your host(s).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...sktop_software

That gives a list of numerous VNC variants or other remoting software.
There is a table showing which work on which OS. Since the OP mentioned
Mac OS X, he'd have to check if an alternative to TeamViewer supported
his OS/X host. For example, TightVNC and Tiger VNC support OS/X clients
but not OS/X servers while RealVNC does.

As I mentioned, installing TeamViewer add a registry key that assigns
you an ID, and that ID gets registered at TeamViewer regarding its
licensing as to personal or business use. Some users that found they
had somehow got switched to business-use had to contact TeamViewer to
get it switched back to personal-use. Something about where they used
it, like on a server OS, or how many hosts to which they were connecting
triggered a change on their ID registration.