[SOLUTION] Using Teamviewer 8 on Mageia 3/4

[hman]

Hi all,
to remote support on linux and windows pc (behind firewall...) i use Teamviewer. To install and use it on Mageia,
download and install from teamviewer site:

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$ wget http://download.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_linux.rpm
# urpmi teamviewer_linux.rpm (as root)


release 8 use a service named teamviewerd to manage connections, so start teamviewer:

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# systemctl start teamviewerd.service (as root)
$ /opt/teamviewer8/tv_bin/script/teamviewer


to stop service after close application:

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# systemctl stop teamviewerd.service (as root)

[Lebarhon]

Hello,

How about creating a page on the wiki ?

[Ken-Bergen]

How about creating a page on the wiki ?

As a member here you are free to do so.

[Lebarhon]

As a member here you are free to do so.

Except I haven't teamviewer installed, (Yes, I am free to do it), I haven't either hman experience nor knowledge of various errors messages (Yes, I am free to fetch them), I haven't Windows to make a try (Yes, I am free to buy it), I am working on other subjects (Yes, I am free to let them down) and I can write something about which I don't know anything (No, I am not morally free to do it)

[doktor5000]

You don't need windows, there are no relevant error messages, and nobody else requested a wiki page for this so far.

[Lebarhon]

and nobody else requested a wiki page for this so far.

It was just a suggestion because I think tools like Teamviewer are a good way to spread Mageia. Howto in a forum isn't easy to find again.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:Remote-Help

[eor2004]

It helped me install teamviewer, Thank you!

[wolandec]

Hello!

I have a computer with Mageia 3 Linux installed up on it, which displays some information in kiosk mode. Time to time I have to administrate it remotely. And it is no doubt that any tracks of teamviewer work on this computer are not acceptably in ordinary state of computer.

How can I start up teamviewer in hidden mode and keep my remote access to it?

No teamviewer window, tray icon or visible system notification are acceptably. Just silent mode!

[doktor5000]

You probably need a license for that, and you should ask that question to teamviewer customer support.

[wolandec]

You probably need a license for that, and you should ask that question to teamviewer customer support.

I've done it already and waiting for an answer.

[jiml8]

If you are administering it, why do you need the gui? Why not just log in using SSH and do X-forwarding? Or, if you have to see the display on the kiosk, use VNC to track the display, while using SSH and X forwarding to adminsterl.

[wolandec]

There is no static IP address on it.

[jiml8]

There is no static IP address on it.

That's not a problem. My workstation doesn't have a static IP either, and I talk to it from all over the world, all the time. I even ssh into it from my smartphone at fairly frequent intervals.

I have a website, and a domain. My workstation is configured to, once an hour on the hour, contact my website and announce itself. My website then stores the IP address and, if the address changes (which happens infrequently), I just hit my website at a specific URL to get the new address. For that matter, when I sit down at a strange computer and want to talk to my workstation, I can do that by hitting the website to get the address.

Now, if you don't have a website you can use, there are other ways. The easiest way that occurs to me is to have your remote system determine its IP address and email it to you. Hourly emails might be a bit much, but one ever 12 or 24 hours would be tolerable, unless your remote system has an address that changes more frequently than that...and if it does, then how does anyone use it?

[wolandec]

It is good idea, and maybe I'll stop on it. Thanks a lot!

[hman]

how to eliminate the annoying popup on systray icon ?

you need:
1. stop teamviewer service:

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# systemctl stop teamviewerd.service

2. edit file /etc/teamviewer/global.conf and add follow item:

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[int32] ShowTaskbarInfoOnMinimize = 0

3. edit also user settings file /home/<user>/.config/teamviewer9/config/client.conf and add the same item:

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[int32] ShowTaskbarInfoOnMinimize = 0

4. restart teamviewer service:

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# systemctl start teamviewerd.service

bye
Armando

[wolandec]

Thanks a lot, I'll try it!