Rust desk not working unless "Host network" box is checked.

[orrinwitt]

Title says it all. Server is up and running, and set up correctly in both clients. All necessary ports are forwarded in router. Without "Host network" box checked, it will not work. Once I checked it, all of a sudden it works.

My suggestion is to either change the default to have this box checked, or to include whatever else would need fixed or configured to make it work otherwise.

Am I missing something obvious? Do I need to be running something additional (like Nginx or Traefik) that manages these ports to allow traffic to the docker containers?

[stavros-k]

Hello, mine works (shows ready) without the need of host network.

Of course here I used local network only. but host network does not make a difference as long as the port forward is done correctly.

See here https://rustdesk.com/docs/en/self-host/rustdesk-server-oss/install/
what ports needs to be opened (note that a few are both tcp and udp)

Below are screens from my laptop and the 10.20.30.6 is my server running rust-desk.

Client Config:

Status:

Server config:

Please share logs and screenshots if you still having issues.

[orrinwitt]

So, is it better to use the local ip of the server for the local workstation, and the server.example.com domain name for the remote workstation? I think that may be part of my problem, as i do get the "ready" with the green light on both machines, but the connection was failing.

[stavros-k]

It shouldn't matter, as long as the server.example.com resolves to the local IP when the machine is inside your network.

If a local workstation resolves server.example.com to your public IP, it makes a weird scenario where your traffic goes out your WAN and back to your LAN (kinda, depends on the router and the Hairpin support etc, but still not ideal).

When it fails does it give an error message?
Do you see any logs on the rust-desk container while you are trying to connect?