TeamViewer on Linux

[Karl Auer]

This is probably not an Ubuntu problem specifically, but if anyone out
there is using the Linux version of TeamViewer, maybe you can help.

The object of the exercise is to run TeamViewer on a remote system, but
have the display on the local system. Exactly as one can do, for
example, with xterm or pretty much any other X program.

I log into an Ubuntu system from a different system using "ssh -X
me at server"

I run xterm on the server, it works. The xterm window appears on my
local X server.

I run a wine application called winbox.exe. It's a Mikrotik router
configuration application, but (cue Frank Drebin) that's not important
right now. The point is it's an application being run via WINE. That
works, too, and the winbox window appears on my local X server.

Then I run the Linux version of TeamViewer, and it doesn't work. Instead
I get an error message "X11 connection rejected because of wrong
authentication". Why?

TeamViewer consist of two parts, a daemon and a GUI. The daemon part
runs as root, the GUI runs as an ordinary user. Even if I start the
daemon part as me, it runs as root - though I can see no setuid bits on
the executable. It also does need to be said that TeamViewer for Linux
installs with its own WINE installation; I can't seem to run other
things with the TeamViewer wine, it complains about 32/64 bit issues.
But TeamViewer does work fine when run on the remote server, on the
remote server's X display.

I have used xauth to add the local display to root's .Xauthority, and I
have tried "xhost +" on the local system; TeamViewer stubbornly refuses
to run on my local X server.

Ideas welcome.

Regards, K.

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