what is this Teamviewer garbage???

[bazookaman]

I am trying to help my mom on her computer so I had her download Teamviewer. However, MY Teamviewer keeps telling me that the version of the remote computer is too old to connect and that I need to update it. Well, guess what, she has the latest version. WTF!

[Fritz]

TV, I have noticed of late has had some weird issues.
What OS are you both on and what v of TV do you have.?

[S. Pupp]

I changed to Anydesk after TeamViewer kept insisting I was using it for commercial purposes and repeatedly locked me out.

[Robert M]

S. Pupp,

Yups. Although TeamViewer is the best of the bunch, it kept locking me out even though I wasn't using it for commercial purposes. Very frustrating. AnyDesk is a solid alternative. However, I decided to spend the bucks for Screens. Not quite as good as TeamViewer but rock solid reliable. Can even log into a machine that was just restarted. I keep AnyDesk on hand as a backup to it. I believe Jump Desktop is very similar in functionality to Screens.

Robert

[raz]

Any reason to not use Apple's built-in ScreenSharing?

[Tiangou]

raz wrote:
Any reason to not use Apple's built-in ScreenSharing?

Can screen share via iMessage/Messages.

I do this with my mom all the time.

[PeterB]

raz wrote:
Any reason to not use Apple's built-in ScreenSharing?

Yep, I've found that there are all kinds of problems with less-than-computer-savvy relatives not being signed into iMessage or iCloud or whatever, and then having to jump through hoops to get them logged in/convincing Apple or whatever that they are who they say they are. I gave up on TeamViewer for the same reason as S. Pupp, switched to AnyDesk, and haven't looked back -- it's just way more user-friendly for the non-computer-savvy.

[C(-)ris]

We've been using Chrome remote desktop lately and it seems to work surprisingly well.

[bazookaman]

I finally gave up and just told her to send me the computer and the drives and I'll just set the whole thing up here. I have some other upgrades to do, so it will work out. But it's still annoying.

Yes, it IS an older computer I am trying to connect to. My laptop is Big Sur and the mini is Mavericks? I think. I'm going to look at Anydesk and Screens, b/c since I will have the computer I will go ahead and install one or the other so that I can avoid this in the future.

[Fritz]

Had the same issue BS to Mavs.
Gave up and brought them together as you are.
If the mini will take HS, that should fix the TV issue.