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I use sunshine/moonlight there is nothing as good as that.
Both the server and client run in portable mode
By default it will fullscreen and use relative mouse but use this command line to one-click start moonlight
Moonlight.exe --display-mode windowed --absolute-mouse --resolution 1920x1080 stream yourserver.lan desktopOnly little hiccup, the client need to pair with server before connecting, the client will give you a number and you type it in the sunshine management interface
How does this work, if one person is sharing their screen, does the client get to see? Because it seems more like remote gaming kind of thing? Where the client controls the game/app running on the server?
The person doing screensharing runs sunshine.exe
they tell their hostname from the watcher, example.com the watcher runs
if not paired already Moonlight.exe pair example.lan
once paired (pairing key exchange is permanent until manually revoked by default) the watcher runs Moonlight.exe --display-mode windowed --absolute-mouse --resolution 1920x1080 stream example.lan desktop
A screen appears on their device, showing the other device, the latency and quality are excellent, you can watch youtube videos, play doom, it's almost like it's your own computer, you can fullscreen the window if you want.
Me and my friends, we use an extra computer with sunshine on it. We all connect at the same time to this extra computer and share it, show stuff to each other. It works really great
As for connectivity, there is no STUN/TURN coordination, either you open a port forward on your router or you use a VPN like zero tier, tailscale, hamachi, softether etc..
Here is the latest moonlight client
https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt/releases/download/v6.1.0/MoonlightSetup-6.1.0.exe
https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt/releases/download/v6.1.0/MoonlightPortable-x64-6.1.0.zip
And here is the latest sunshine server
https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/releases/download/v2025.924.154138/Sunshine-Windows-AMD64-installer.exe
https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/releases/download/v2025.924.154138/Sunshine-Windows-AMD64-portable.zip