Hello
Brand new user to Ubuntu mate and may I say it’s lovely,
I’ve been using on and off Ubuntu 17.04 since it came out, but just didn’t like it so switched to the Mate version, so much better
For the moment I’m stuck as I don’t now how to ‘attack’ my Mate from my Win PC, before I used TightVNC on the Win PC and on Ubuntu I just configured ‘Desktop Sharing’ and could then use the Win PC to access the Linux computer,
On Mate ‘Desktop Sharing’ doesn’t exist and can’t figure out what I need or what to install so that can use the Mate from on my Windows machine
Can someone point me in the right direction please
Thanks
So you have to install the VNC server if you want to configure network sharing.
I think this was bundled in before but it's not in the default install anymore.
Install the package vino:
sudo apt install vino
Once installed, configure network sharing:
vino-preferences
Cheers
Oh that looks good, as soon as I get home, I’ll try it
Many thanks 
Hi again
the apt get semmed to work OK, no error messages
But with the Vino-prefs I get an error message, although the window opens and let’s me check the boxes that I need to allow sharing
error message :
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
(vino-preferences:7730): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_entry_set_text: assertion ‘text != NULL’ failed
and I cant connect from my PC gettin error in TightVNC viewer, Aucune connect , the computer has refused it (I’m running a french system on my Win PC, so that message is nearly exact
I tried the forewall on and off, doesn’t make any differnce and the same setup worked fine on Ubuntu 17.04
thanks
You need to have vino running before you can connect to it, it's not automatically set up as a service when you install it.
To start the server, you need to issue the command:
/usr/lib/vino/vino-server
As for the warnings/error when running preferences, it's most likely benign. Check by opening the preferences again that your changes have been saved.
Again you saved my life, that works just great
Do I need to /usr/lib/vino/vino-server at every boot ? or can is there a way I get it start when I boot the machine ?
If this is usful to anyone else, this page gets around a security problem with TightVNC
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/07/remote-access-ubuntu-16-04/
Many thanks again
I’m sure I’ll be back with more questions
I’m not sure it’s possible to have it start at boot time.
At least, I haven’t found a way to do that yet.
However, you can have it start when you login, by adding it from the “Startup Applications” settings.
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thank you for sharing, its work
