Over the weekend I updated from Ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 LTS and so far I’ve not noticed any significant differences. However, one of my Ubuntu machines is the headless home media server. To remote into that machine while on my internal network I’ve been using RealVNC, sans encryption, to manage the server. Trouble is, post the upgrade, RealVNC wouldn’t connect with an error along the lines of “you’re not using encryption – please use encryption.” Yeah, not something I really wanted to figure out. But after some hunting I found the Ubuntu bug report “Ubuntu 14.04 (Alpha Release) – VNC not working” which did have an answer. Basically:
- Run the configuration editor
- Search for “require-encryption” (or find it under org > gnome > desktop > applications > remote-access)
- Uncheck require-encrption
- Close the configuration editor
- Reboot
- Run Desktop Sharing
- Allow remote access to your computer (even if you’ve previously done this)
- You should probably at least set a password for access
That should do it.
