Chrome Remote Desktop Host Offline
Laquanda Gede
Chrome Remote Desktop is a free and popular remote desktop software. Chrome Remote Desktop goes offline issue usually occurs due to errors of Chrome Remote Desktop or Google Chrome, PIN feature, or VPN. Here in this tutorial, 5 solutions are mentioned to help you figure out what to do when Chrome Remote Desktop says host is offline.
Chrome Remote Desktop can performs unattended remote access through the PIN feature, but this function may cause connection problems. Thus, disabling this function and removing the device may help you solve the Chrome Remote Desktop goes offline problem.
It's not advised to switch to an alternative to Chrome Remote Desktop rather than take time on fixing Chrome Remote Desktop goes offline issue. AnyViewer, a powerful and secure remote access app, can be perfect to replace Chrome Remote Desktop for Windows computers. It supports one-click unattended access and sends a remote control request to meet different demands and supports Chat in remote sessions, which may improve the efficiency of remote support. Now, free download the software and see how to use it.
Step 1. Install and launch AnyViewer on both computers. Go to Log in, and then click Sign up. (If you already have signed up on its official website, you can log in directly.)
If you do not want to log in to the same account on the two devices for any reason, we also provide you with other two connection methods. But you should note that you're unable to transfer files between computers using these two connection methods, as this is a function for logged-in users.
Step 2. On the client computer, input the device ID of the host computer and then click Connect. Choose Input security code and enter the code. Click OK to achieve remote access.
Users can choose image quality according to the network connection speed. If the network connection speed is better, it can provide a higher image quality. The default wallpaper hiding function makes the remote connection smoother.
If you happen to encounter the Chrome Remote Desktop goes offline problem, you may try the methods mentioned in this tutorial to see if they can help you out of the predicament when Chrome Remote Desktop says host is offline. If none of the previous five methods is helpful, you may choose a Chrome Remote Desktop alternative AnyViewer, which is also free and powerful remote control software.
When I try to connect, I click on the Ubuntu machine Remote Access>Turn On> I write a name and enter a PIN. Then the computer asks me for authorization so I type my Ubuntu password. Then it happens one of the following things:
a) The remote access is not set so I have to start over from Turn On
b) It creates the connection but it says that the Ubuntu computer is offline, which is not true because I have access to the Internet. Meanwhile, I can see from the Windows machine that the Ubuntu machine WAS online but shows the real-time (e.g., in the screenshot)
I also removed the connection and tried to set the connection multiple times but did not work. I can, however, remotely access my Windows computer from my Ubuntu computer without any problem.I have seen that some people had this problem too but the questions are mostly addressed to Windows machines and I cannot find much information about using this tool in Linux (or Windows - Linux in my case)( -remote-desktop-is-showing-our-workstations-as-offline-but-they-aren-t-please-help?hl=en).
If trying to connect remotely from Windows to Ubuntu, I recommend using Window's Remote Desktop Connection where you would have to enter the IP address of the Ubuntu machine.Please let me know if this works.
I am running a virtual machine in Google Cloud. I have installed the default Debian OS, and configured the desktop environment for remote connection, as explained here: -desktop-remote-on-compute-engine
I have been able to connect to the instance via Chrome Remote Desktop, however periodically I have the problem that the Remote Desktop says the vm instance is online, however if I try to connect to it I get:
Looking at the Google Cloud console, the instance is clearly running. Normally if I restart the instance the problem is solved, however I have processes running on the instance that I do not want to stop.
and this solved the problem, I could log into remote desktop again, but it seemed the VM instance had restarted, which is a big problem since I am running processes on it that should not shut down. I guess this is a problem to send to Google Cloud Services support.
I'm still running into this problem. I normally have a Jupyter Notebook running on the VM - this Notebook must keep running. When I saw the message saying that the remote computer is offline, I logged in via ssh and checked if the Jupyter Notebook is running:
I spoke to a support technician at Google. The problem is on the Remote Desktop side, not the virtual machine. According to the technician this is a known problem, by he didn't have a solution for it. He referred me to these two links from Google Support:
Go to Compute Engine -> VM instances -> click on NAME_OF_YOUR_VM -> find section Logs -> click on Stackdriver Logging. More information you can find in the documentation Viewing logs (Classic)
I am having this issue as well. I had the first reports on Dec 2nd. I found on the Chrome extension store a user logged a review with the same issue, but until now you are the only other case. I have also uninstalled the Chrome remote desktop host program. When it is reinstalled it only functions for a little while.
I installed the program on my home network and it has been online since last night. I installed CRD version 87.0.4280.58 on Chrome 86.XX from the website in the same manner that I had previously. The Windows PCs on my work network are using CRD version 88.0.4324.9 on Chrome 87.XX. Another new install resulted in CRD version 87 install on Chrome 87. I will monitor, but i bet these installs will update to CRD version 88 and then go offline.
I have installed Chrome Remote Desktop in my Windows machine, and am trying to so the same in Ubuntu 20.04 machine. After following the instruction ( ) I was able to install Chrome Remote Desktop. After this, in Windows I saw the setup screen to enter hostname and pin number, but it didn't show up in Ubuntu.
It seems user interface of the chrome remote desktop is updated since this post. I believe it is another bug on Chrome Remote Desktop installer (with new user interface). Any suggestion of alternative option is appreciated. E.g., a method of configuring host and pin # by hand without going through the installer, etc.
I'm currently trying to set up chrome remote desktop on a new computer with Ubuntu 18.04. But whenever I try to follow the instructions on -crd, it skips the setup stage and goes straight to "Set up another device for remote access".
I've gotten this to work on a virtual machine earlier this year and it works fine on my windows computer. But it seems to only fail on my Ubuntu 18.04 computer. I've also tried reinstalling google-chrome, chrome-remote-desktop chrome extension and chrome-remote-desktop Debian file installation.
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I have a Windows 2012 Server hosting virtual machines, but yesterday I just wanted to do a quick search on mortar types and didn't log into a VM. Symantec is installed (12.1.5 - yes I know it is old) and only visit green WOT sites. I opened a few of the search results in tabs and starting going through them. Then, all of a sudden, Chrome starting flipping pages and I had a message that Chrome was downloading and installing something. Then I noticed that it was logged into a Google account. it was the account for my property manager's assistant (I live in a condo). I used task manager to kill chrome immediately and it all stopped. I have Chrome 59.0.3071.115 on my server, but it looks like it just downloaded an update.
I could not figure out how the heck the property manager's assistant could have logged onto my server and then why he would log into chrome. I checked and Symantec was running. I checked my firewall router and RDP was still disabled to the server, plus this was the admin console and why would a hacker do something so obvious? I always lock my screen (old habit) when i leave my desk, even though only my wife and I live here - and one of us is almost always home. [Plus the session locks after a 15 minute timeout.] There is no way anyone had physical access unless they took the master key and came in while we were asleep, but that would have been really dumb. [And it would be next to impossible for anyone else to know my password.] Even so, why log into Google?
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