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snack

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 893

[SOLVED] Setup TeamViewer start at boot

I installed teamviewer and enabled the systemd unit:

$ sudo systemctl status teamviewerd
* teamviewerd.service - TeamViewer remote control daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/teamviewerd.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2023-09-09 14:32:43 CEST; 1s ago
    Process: 57794 ExecStart=/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/teamviewerd -d (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 57798 (teamviewerd)
      Tasks: 26 (limit: 18742)
     Memory: 8.9M
        CPU: 145ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/teamviewerd.service
             `-57798 /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/teamviewerd -d

set 09 14:32:43 stryke systemd[1]: Starting TeamViewer remote control daemon...
set 09 14:32:43 stryke systemd[1]: teamviewerd.service: Can't open PID file /run/teamviewerd.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
set 09 14:32:43 stryke systemd[1]: Started TeamViewer remote control daemon.

This starts the teamviewer daemon:

$ ps aux | grep team
291:root       57798  0.4  0.1 1613104 19384 ?       Sl   14:32   0:00 /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/teamviewerd -d

which however seems insufficient for accepting connections from another computer: when I try I get this error message

Either your partner isn't connected to the internet or your partner's TeamViewer is't running yet.
Please tell your partner to check their internet connection or to start TeamViewer.

If I start the TeamViewer GUI on the machine I want to connect to:

$ ps aux | grep team
284:root       57798  0.6  0.1 1949672 23400 ?       Sl   14:32   0:01 /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/teamviewerd -d
296:mori       58118 29.1  1.4 3665452 240060 ?      Sl   14:37   0:00 /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/TeamViewer

then I can connect.

So it seems that a running teamviewer daemon is not sufficient to allow for remote connection, and that the TeamViewer executable must be running. This is quite strange since I found on the web that enabling the teamviewerd unit is enough to allow for remote connections. So how these facts cope together? Which is the correct setup for booting into a system ready to receive connections?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Last edited by snack (2023-09-09 13:12:18)

snack

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 893

Re: [SOLVED] Setup TeamViewer start at boot

I found the solution: it is necessary to enable the "Start TeamViewer with system" under Extras/Options menu of the GUI.