I will be giving my Dad a computer within the next couple of days, and I will need to set it up so that I am able to remotely administer it while he is at home 3,000km away.
I haven't used RDP etc before.
I discovered today that my computer already has Remmina installed, and I have a spare computer to test it all with before my Dad's new computer arrives.
I installed Remmina on the spare computer this morning.
I am able to start Remmina on either of these two computers.
I want to use the spare computer to control my main computer. On my main computer, I 'ifconfig' in a terminal and get the IP address 192.168.178.35.
- I start Remmina on the spare computer
- create a new connection
- leave the default connection name
- Protocol>RDP
- Server 192.168.178.35
- User el_gallo_azul (my account user name on the main computer)
- Password (I enter the password of my account on the main computer)
- Domain - leave blank because I don't know what's supposed to go here
- Click 'Connect'
This gives the error "Unable to connect to RDP server 192.168.178.35"
I have set my Desktop Sharing Preferences on my main computer to 'Allow to view' and 'Allow to control'.
I can't find any instructions on the internet.
This doesn't bode well for when I am trying to access a computer that isn't even on my home network.
On ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2177810, I discovered that I should use a different protocol. I'm now using VNC, and once I discovered that I should accept the connection on my main computer, I got it to work. Now to figure out how do it over the internet... I would appreciate any hints.