Questions tagged [remote]
Anything involving something running on one computer and interacting with resources of another computer (e.g. display).
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Problem connecting to XRDP... (Windows 10 RDP to Ubuntu XRDP)
I have XRDP and LXDE insatalled on my linux machine, and I use RDP to connect to it remotely. Every time I try to connect to my Linux machine after I restart it, about 50% of the time I am unable to ...
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Issue with Chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 19.10
I recently attempted to upgrade from Ubuntu 19.04 to 19.10 but encountered an issue. During the process, the upgrade froze with the following message: lvm2-activation-generator activation generator ...
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XRDP - I can't access to my Ubuntu computer from Windows 10 Remote Desktop client
I'm trying to access to my Ubuntu computer on local from Windows 10. So I installed xrdp:
sudo apt install xrdp
sudo systemctl enable xrdp
If I check the status of xrdp I can see it is active:
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Ubuntu 18.04 Connect to Xserver from remote
I have setup an Ubuntu 18.04 on a Touchscreen-Display and I want to start
a graphical programm from a remote system to display it on the touchscreen.
When I try it I get the error
Can't open ...
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18.04 Remmina, remote desktop connection, best way?
I have 2 laptops with Ubuntu 18.04 with XFCE installed, on different networks (providers), locations are about 30 km distant.
SSH connection configured, no problem with connection to remote machine ...
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Intrusion detection
In this day & age, it is almost impossible to detect who is lurking in the background in our system while we use our Ubuntu desktop / Laptop.
Any idea of how to detect such intrusion or how to ...
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How do I use my desktop as a home desktop server
I have a PC which I want to use as a common server for all my devices. I want to be able to keep it in my basement and use it's gui desktop on my raspberry pi 4(I also want to plug in my 2 monitors on ...
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How to use Ubuntu and YouTube on a handheld device to protect from death threats? [closed]
Suppose you fear you could meet someone who will threaten you with death.
Assuming the bad guy won't destroy your handheld (for example an Ubuntu Touch device) on sight, a barely decent form of ...
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multiple rdp connections?
I've set up a physical box with ubuntu, for learning purposes. Currently, I am able to remote into it by using NX and the native VNC client on my mac. How can I go about allowing remote connections (w/...
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How to connect remotely to the Ubuntu CLI from a Mac?
I have a mac and I want to access my ubuntu Desktop's hardware remotely from anywhere to run some programs. I am aware of apps like teamviewer however I am only interested in using Ubuntu's terminal ...
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How to screen mirror android phone to Ubuntu PC? [duplicate]
I need to screen mirror my android phone to Ubuntu PC.
Is there any tool or package available in Ubuntu to do this?
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VNC desktop visual bugged without screen
i can connect to my ubuntu 18.04.3 lts with VNC, with screen or without screen. The problem come with the fact that, without screen, the machine just shows a bugged desktop, not usable. I put an image ...
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How can I transfer data with multiple hosts through PSCP
pscp -h host.txt terminal.sh /Desktop/terminal.sh
I tried this command to copy the file terminal.sh from my Desktop to my client Desktop using pscp but I got these errors:
[1] 22:34:05 [FAILURE] 10....
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remote desktop from windows10 to ubuntu without log out
I have a problem regarding logining a ubuntu both locally and remotely at the same time. I have two computers A and B, A with ubuntu 16.04LTS system and B with windows 10 system. I can physically ...
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Unable to reach self hosted Ubuntu gitlab's login page from web browser remotely
I am new to ubuntu as well as gitlab. This is my first time setting up the self-hosted Ubuntu Gitlab Server in my own laptop.
Problem Statement : Unable to reach gitlab's login page from web browser ...
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Network manager opened by itself
I left my computer on overnight because it had some updates to install, and I didn't feel like waiting for it to reboot just to shut it down. However, when I logged back in this morning, the network ...
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How to disable update notification for all users?
This is a partial case of the more general question "Don't bother non-admin users with admin questions":
I have several non-admin users on a computer and I want to disable software updates for all of ...
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Connect to an already open terminal over SSH
My specific example, I run a few Minecraft servers and was wondering if there's a way to interact with the terminals that host the servers over SSH.
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RDC into Ubuntu Server with Ubuntu Desktop running
I get an X window and then I get a
login successful for display, started connection.
Then I get a
connecting to "127.0.0.1 5911". tcp connected then error - problem connecting.
This is ...
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Save PDF to file fails for remote location in Ubuntu 18.04
If I am using Firefox in private mode and I choose to save a page as PDF to a file location on a network drive the print dialog appears, I set the filename and location, click Print, there is a popup ...
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About re- ''Using Alt+Tab in Remmina RDP connection''
I wish i am asking this in right place ^_^ cuz i'm new in here and i have a problem and i guess this is not just mine problem. If i am wrong place in this forum, please correct and warn me.
It's ...
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How to see remote SSH connections on my server?
I'm currently using VSCode's Remote SSH extension to connect to a remote server and edit source code locally.
I was just curious, is there a way to see what connections are established on my remote ...
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Ubuntu 18 What is my Desktop and how to get Xorg
I am now realizing that when remoting through xRDP I must choose the right Desktop. How can I check to see what desktop is installed?
Thanks
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How to connect ot Ubuntu Remote Desktop
I have installed the latest Ubuntu on a PC stick and will be hopefully using it as a remote computer to remotely control my astronomy equipment.
I would like to remote into this computer from a Mac ...
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Automatically sleep when all users (ssh or GUI) are logged out?
I've got an Ubuntu 19.04 desktop that I sometimes use as a physical workstation, and sometimes log into using ssh or NoMachine.
In order to save power, I'm wondering if there's a way to make the ...
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How to forward X over SSH to run gnome-terminal remotely? (18.04)
It runs remotely in version 14.04 but not in version 18.04.
All graphics applications (gnome-todo, firefox etc) are lunched remotely via SSH.
However, when I run gnome-terminal remotely via SSH, it ...
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use remote desktop on ubuntu 18.10 (not xbuntu or xfce)
I'm trying to use the "Remmina Remote Desktop" application that came with my Ubuntu 18.10 (64 bit) install to connect to another ubuntu desktop. But anytime, I try to connect, then automatic it's ...
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What does `cat file | ssh host 'cat - >file'` do?
this is the script:
#!/bin/bash
usage() {
echo "deploy-nginx.sh --production|--staging"
}
case "$1" in
--staging) NGINX_CONF="conf/nginx-staging"; HOST="staging" ;;
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Infra-Red Remote control on Ubuntu
I've just got a new computer (Fujitsi-Simens Amilo Xi 3670). It came with a remote control for windows Vista. Is there any way to make it work with Ubuntu 14.10?
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Android Network remote controls for clementine and amarok not connecting
so a while ago, I could control both Clementine and Amarok with the respective RC apps for Android.
And now I can't.
I've left the port as it was, and put in the IP address which I found in "network"...
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ssh login with public key stopped work in Ubuntu 16.04.4
I have two servers, one of them runs Ubuntu 14, another one runs 16.04.4. I'm trying to log in via ssh (Windows, Putty + Pageant) as a simple user, not as root. /etc/ssh/sshd_config files are ...
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kdiff3 how to compare files over remote server ftp?
I followed the instructions from here
http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/doc/misc.html
But i can't make it working. For some reason the kdiff always throw an error it's not a file.
How can i compare ...
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Is it possible to login to desktop session from SSH?
We have Ubuntu desktop 16.04 running on a remote workstation, and we have VNC access to it. This is great if the user account is logged in.
If the OS gets knocked out to the login screen, the VNC ...
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TeamViewer slow on Ubuntu without monitor 16.04
After restarting my server without a monitor connected, TeamViewer is extremely slow. But if I restart with a monitor it runs fine. How can I get it working like normal without a monitor attached?
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I simply start video on my local computer, remotely
I simply want to start and play a video on my local computer screen from a remote device. is its possible? im using vlc and u have created a playlist. i want to execute or send command remotely to ...
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Log into desktop using SSH?
A few months ago I converted an old desktop computer into a basic server by putting Ubuntu (desktop version) onto it and setting up apache2, etc. I have SSH configured so that I can work on it ...
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Remote into Desktop on Ubuntu through SSH
So we have SSH access to a Ubuntu server, and we need to setup some programs that require visual access, but we have no clue how to do this through SSH.
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How to edit files directly on server with GVim when ssh is mounted from Dolphin?
I would like to use GVim to edit external files that are accessed through Dolphin.
I have an external server with files to be modified
I access the server using SSH using Dolphin's built-in module
I ...
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Save and restore nautilus server connection bookmarks
Usually I open Nautilus \ File \ Connect to server.
Enter some authentication data (usually FTP).
Login, go to some folder (usually public_html) and save bookmark to remote server (so later folder can ...
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How should properly stop x0vncserver?
I use x0vncserver to connect to my ubuntu display. I start it with /usr/bin/x0vncserver -display :0. I can see it running with pidof x0vncserver.
I have also seen that the proper way to stop ...
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tool to fix another ubuntu from remote
Notion of the LiveCD/LiveUSB is priceless. I was wondering if such a parent functioning OS session can be leveraged to allow skilled people to fix a friend's broken ubuntu desktop from remote. At ...
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Remmina "unable to establish connection to RDP server:" to macbook
I am running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. My Remmina has worked fine, connecting to windows and other Linux machines. But it has now refused to connect to my mac book.
The server is fine. Ping, nmap, ssh all ...
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How to manage partitions (not live/system) on a remote Linux server?
To provide more context, let's say we have a remote Linux server with 2 disks and 3 partitions on it. For example, a system partition (/dev/sda1) and one more disk with 2 partitions on it (/dev/sdb1 ...
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unexpectedly closed network connection
Setup new Ubuntu server. Verified network settings working correctly. Verified the firewall is off. Can ssh locally and telnet locally to port 22.
Cannot telnet nor ssh from another machine.
Have ...
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Ubuntu Server requires service restart every few days
I'm new here and I hope you can help me out this time.
I have a MySQL server which receives many requests from my other servers...daily up to 1000 requests (HTTP and remote MySQL).
However, for some ...
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Prevent Nautilus from displaying thumbnails on a specific mount
I have written a filesystem over Fuse to access a remote pseudo-NAS (the French "Freebox V6", I'll soon publish it as GPL3... when it's a little bit more polished!).
The NAS is connected to a home ...
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Xrdp - How do I connect remotely to an existing local session?
My OS is Ubuntu 16.04 (Unity), but I am using the Xfce4 (apt get xfce4) interface. I want to connect from a Windows 7 PC (using the standard remote controll) and from a Linux OS via rdesktop.
I want ...
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How to access an ubuntu machine via VNC from the login screen?
I want to access an Ubuntu machine remotely via VNC. But I can access the Ubuntu machine only if the user is logged in. I want to access the ubuntu machine via VNC from the login screen itself. We can ...
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command not found
I have compile my code in my local computer terminal and after that I run scp command to transfer the result of the compiling to the bin of the remote computer.
When I tried to run my code from the ...
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I wasn't able to access remote server using SSH!
I wasn't able to access to remote server using ssh! What should I do?
I have installed firewall in my machine,now I uninstall it but it's still didn't connect!(the keypair is in the same directory.)
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