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I have Ubuntu 15.10 running on my desktop PC and my laptop. On the desktop PC I have enabled sharing in Desktop Sharing Preferences:

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Next I am trying to use remmina client to connect to Ubuntu on my desktop PC from my laptop. On my laptop I am doing a quick connect where I am using the hostname for the desktop pc in:

cat /etc/hostname
ubuntu-macmini

Where I have discovered that I need to specify the hostname followed by .local So In Remmina I specify:

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When I do that I get this screen:

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When I enter my user and pass it connects but after a short while the remote desktop simply terminates by itself - I never get to see the actual desktop on the remote server.

There are some alternatives from the above menu: enter image description here

But I have not had any success with selecting any of those either.

Any ideas?

SOLUTION: I manged to solve the problem by installing a VNC server on the remote machine and then select the following in Remmina:

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It will auto populate the configuration and connection worked fined afterwards. So the trick was to select:

VNC - Virtual Network Computing 

And simply browse for the VNC server.

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    What RDP server are you using on the remote machine? Dec 16, 2015 at 20:32
  • Not sure what you mean, please see my updated post with more details. If that is not enough what are the steps I need to perform to determine the RDP server?
    – u123
    Dec 16, 2015 at 21:20

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Set your desktop client to listen on a specific port using the Remmina client. It has an option to do that.

When you go to create a new connection with the little document/plus symbol. Then in the drop down "Protocol" select "VNC Incoming Connection"

Then you can more tightly control the VNC server.

VNC works better on Linux then RDP.

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  • Just any port, e.g. 5555? And I don't really understand that I should specify a listen port on the client. Is it not the server that should be listening for incoming connections? I assume the above requires that a VNC server is running on the server on port 5555?
    – u123
    Dec 18, 2015 at 12:12
  • You can use netstat -vaun to see ports currently used. Just don't make it one that is being used and you are good. I think you can also use the default port which is 5900 for tightVNC.
    – Goddard
    Dec 18, 2015 at 18:23
  • See edited post. I made it work using the: VNC - Virtual Network Computing
    – u123
    Dec 18, 2015 at 20:13
  • awesome bud mark this as the answer then. Glad you got everything working.
    – Goddard
    Dec 18, 2015 at 20:15
  • Well actually I did not managed to solve the problem based on your suggestion: "VNC Incoming Connection". I had to to experiment with "VNC - Virtual Network Computing" instead to get it working. If I accept you answer it might cause some confusion. Is it possible to accept my own question as an answer? You definitely pointed me in the right direction though.
    – u123
    Dec 18, 2015 at 20:21
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The solution to the problem is:

  1. Install VNC server on remote machine.
  2. In Remmina on client machine select VNC - Virtual Network Computing
  3. Next browse to available VNC servers and select the one you just configured. Finally connect.

See:

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