10-15-2018, 01:53 PM
Thank you for the reply concerning my issues with VNC. After thinking about the things you mentioned, I decide to try an RDP approach. From my initial testing, that looks like it might be a better solution to the way I want to access the PC.
To assist other people that might run into an Admin right issue with VNC, I thought I would share what I ended up doing relative to RPD.
Given that I loaded 3 or 4 different VNC servers and did a lot of hacking along the way, I decide to start over with a fresh load of Linux Lite. Once I had all of the updates applied, I loaded XRDP following the steps outlined here
https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/insta.../#msg43511
After doing that, I was able to access the PC using the standard RDC application on my Windows 10 PC. I found that almost all of the applications needing Administrator rights worked as expected except for Thunar which had two separate issues.
First, when I opened it up using the User Files launcher on the desktop, it gave me an error that said something about access problems to my home thinclient_drives. After a bit of research, I followed the solution outlined here
http://catch22cats.blogspot.com/2018/05/...alled.html
After that fix, I could access the User Files without an issue but the File Open as Administrator still did not work. Basically, nothing happened when I did it.
I found several postings and such from other people that had somwhat related issues with Thunar. After reading through them, I decided the easiest solution was to make a copy of the “User Files” launch, rename that copy of “Root” and edit its properties to change the launcher command to “gksudo thunar /”.
This approach worked great and I like it even better than using the File Open as Administrator option.
Hope this explanation might be helpful to anyone faced with a similar problem.
To assist other people that might run into an Admin right issue with VNC, I thought I would share what I ended up doing relative to RPD.
Given that I loaded 3 or 4 different VNC servers and did a lot of hacking along the way, I decide to start over with a fresh load of Linux Lite. Once I had all of the updates applied, I loaded XRDP following the steps outlined here
https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/insta.../#msg43511
After doing that, I was able to access the PC using the standard RDC application on my Windows 10 PC. I found that almost all of the applications needing Administrator rights worked as expected except for Thunar which had two separate issues.
First, when I opened it up using the User Files launcher on the desktop, it gave me an error that said something about access problems to my home thinclient_drives. After a bit of research, I followed the solution outlined here
http://catch22cats.blogspot.com/2018/05/...alled.html
After that fix, I could access the User Files without an issue but the File Open as Administrator still did not work.
Basically, nothing happened when I did it.I found several postings and such from other people that had somwhat related issues with Thunar. After reading through them, I decided the easiest solution was to make a copy of the “User Files” launch, rename that copy of “Root” and edit its properties to change the launcher command to “gksudo thunar /”.
This approach worked great and I like it even better than using the File Open as Administrator option.
Hope this explanation might be helpful to anyone faced with a similar problem.