On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 15:41, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >
This turned out to be caused by port number confusion. Some of the summary info about gnome-remote-desktop suggests it offers both VNC and RDP protocols. Digging deeper into the docs it turns out that RDP is offered by default and you have to dig deeper to turn on VNC. Port 5900 is the VNC port, the RDP port being 3389. gnome-remote-desktop was listening on 3389, and when I downloaded an RDP as opposed to VNC client on the client side and tried that, it worked. Incidentally the gnome-remote-desktop docs say you have to use a command line tool to turn on VNC support, but when you invoke said tool, its help only offers any info about RDP options.. Still haven't figured out how to turn on VNC support -- but that's OK because I have RDP working now. The other thing I have learned through this experience is that there are a large number of extremely crap RDP client apps available for the iPad -- I had to kiss a fair number of frogs before I found a decent one. One of the frogs included a tool that claimed to be _made by Microsoft_ but didn't map the screen properly, so where you were clicking wasn't where you thought you were clicking. Never mind, I found a decent one in the end. Mark
