Hi Does anyone know what state gnome-remote-desktop is in on bookworm? I can't get it to work. I have a system recently upgraded to bookworm, running Gnome if that wasn't obvious.
In Gnome settings, under Sharing I have turned on Remote Desktop and Remote Control, but other clients on my network can't connect, saying the port can't be contacted. Those machines can connect to the machine in question in other ways, eg ssh. I googled for this and found a discussion in an Ubuntu forum where they used lsof to show that nothing was listening on the RDP port, 5900. The cause on that occasion was held to be that Ubuntu was using a different major version of gnome-control-center (41) to that of gnome-remote-desktop (42). I've checked and in bookworm right now the major version of both is 43. # lsof -i TCP:5900 returns nothing. Same for all port numbers between 5900 and 5909 (I checked in case it was using a different virtual desktop number). That suggests to me the remote desktop server is not listening, although the settings would have me believe it is. I also tried a reboot although I realise this isn't Windows but just in case... no dice. Is anyone using this (relatively new, I gather) feature of Gnome? Did you have to do anything else to get it to work? Thanks all Mark
