How to allow Mate to accept connection with Remmina?

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#1

Hello,
Remmina installed on both host and guest, using Ubuntu Mate 20.04, no way to use desktop sharing. How to do to use Remmina?

#2

Bonjour Philippe :slight_smile:

Remmina is just a client. You need to set up a server in order next to remote control your desktop with remmina.
You can use vnc : (on server - the one you want to control remotely)

sudo apt-get install tightvnc

next run vncserver inside a terminal to setup a password.

Once running, use vnc plugin inside remmina (the client) to remotely connect to your server desktop.

#3

Too complicated for very old person who needs help. What other vnc server easy to setup?

#4

Hi back :slight_smile:
Just run this commands on the machine you want to control remotely :

sudo apt-get install tightvnc -y

and once the installation have finish :

vncserver

The second command will ask for a password that you will next use to connect. Type in one you want.

You should now be able to connect over remmina to this server.

#5

Too complicated to do by a very old person by phone. I need to setup a vnc server easiest as teamviewer on server side.

#6

Teamviewer sounds be a better plan in this case :slight_smile:

#7

Teamviewer or Anydesk are very simple but are proprietary apps and I want to use open source apps. I give up with Remmina, because DWService is fixed:

#8

I use xrdp on the target system and remmina on my host. Need to use a dbus hack on the target system to get remote desktop to work. Probably needs ssh setup too.

The dbus hack is in file /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh:
Comment out the following lines -

test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession
exec /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession

Bottom of file /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh should be:

#test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession
#exec /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
mate-session

Tested with 18.04 and 20.04.

djb