Teamviewer 8 and Fedora 18
Do you have a problem getting TeamViewer 8 to start at boot time in Fedora 18 and Fedora 17?
The issue comes from TeamViewer improperly placing the necessary SystemD component to have systemd start the service at boot. Its a simple fix! Just follow the commands below to correct!
sudo cp -r /opt/teamviewer8/tv_bin/script/teamviewerd.service /lib/systemd/system/
sudo service teamviewerd start
sudo systemctl enable teamviewerd.service
Thanks, this really helped! Although, I had to change your first command to:
sudo cp -r /opt/teamviewer8/tv_bin/script/teamviewerd.service /lib/systemd/system/Not sure why my installation was different, but something to watch out for.
Bruce,
Thanks for the note! It looks like I made a typo on the first command, and included an improper path. I have corrected the post with the type removed.
Glad it helped you out!
Hi,
TeamViewer unnattended access on my Fedora 18 box worked once, when I installed it, since then,
whenever I try to "remote control" the box, it just goes "Connecting" but never comes back.
I entered your cmds above, systemd is running but nothing happens.
I'm using TeamViewer 8 with a TeamViewerID and I am able to connect without any problems to many PCs (Win Vista, Win7 & Win2000).
The only one that I cannot connect to is my Fedora 18 box.
How can I troubleshoot the connection on Fedora 18 ?
Many thanks.
Martin
Martin,
On your Fedora 18 box, you will need to verify the TeamViewer daemon is running. It is called teamviewerd.
Run this command to see if it is running:
ps aux | grep -i teamviewerd
It should return something like this:
root 1282 0.0 0.1 42572 8896 ? Sl 08:56 0:02 /opt/teamviewer8/tv_bin/teamviewerd -d
Hi,
Thanks for the quick follow-up.
Yes the deamon is running. I checked right it right after cut/pasting your commands before.
I tried connecting with TeamViewer, didn't work.
Rebooted, rechecked, teamviewerd was running, TeamViewer connection wasn't happening.
I can't paste the "ps" output since I don't have access to the machine right now ;-(
I have access to other computers on my network but I just installed Fedora and it seems that telnetd isn't running by default ;-(
Thanks again
mp
Martin,
I wonder if it would be iptables blocking the ports that TeamViewer daemon is using? Are you running iptables (firewalld) on the Fedora machine?
I will have to check but one sure thing: I did not install this on purpose.
But I suspect more something with TeamViewer because now it is also happening with my Win2k server.
I was connected via TeamViewer and got disconnected, and now I cannot reconnect ;-(
tx
mp
Ok, more testing showed that process is running
root 1291 0.1 0.0 134528 24096 ? Sl 19:50 0:01 /opt/teamviewer8/tv_bin/teamviewerd -d
And whenever I reboot TeamViewer successfully connects to the Internet TeamViewer server with my account. I can see my fedora box "online" from my other computers.
-I click "remote control" it does nothing on both screens.
-I "send message", it does nothing on both screens.
-I go fedora->Internet->TeamViewer8
-TeamViewer front-end comes up and shows my message
-But still no remote-control from other PC
-On fedora I go "ps -ef" and I have strange processes
mapicard 2334 1 2 20:12 ? 00:00:00 c:\TeamViewer\TeamViewer.exe
mapicard 2357 1 0 20:12 ? 00:00:00 /opt/teamviewer8/tv_bin/wine/bin/wineserver
mapicard 2363 1 0 20:12 ? 00:00:00 C:\windows\system32\services.exe
Why the C:\stuff on a fedora box ???
I'm lost.
tx for any input
mp
Also, it looks like there's a different behavior if I login as "root" instead of my regular ID.
Logged-in as root with GNOME-Desktop environment, wine application started automatically so when I tried "remote control" from another PC, it worked immediately.
Logout and login as root with XFCE,
-remote control did not work
-started TeamViewer8 manually
-remote control came up immediately
Logout/login with regular ID with XFCE
-remote control did not work
-had to started TeamViewer8 manually
-remote control still did not work
@Martin
I have the same issue, seems like selinux is blocking the connection although I can not test right now.
Try running the following command:
setenforce 0
That will put selinux in permissive mode. Then try the connection again.
You can also try free remote desktop software Ammyy Admin
http://www.ammyy.com/en/index.html
One of the easiest and the most fast software for desktop sharing and techsupport. No monthly fees, free for non commercial use.
It might be a good alternative though! Hope you'll like it!
Its good that TeamViewer version 8 supports Linux. But I prefer using RHUB`s remote support solution as it supports Windows, Linux, Unix, MAC, Ubuntu etc.