Thinlinc

thinlinc is a remote-desktop / VDI solution for linux desktops. It provides a ssh tunnelled VNC remote desktop with addons for sound, clipboard sync and more. It also provieds a web-based remote-desktop access and it is pretty performant.

this page collects issues I ran into and fixed, just in case someone else has the same issues or if I encounter them again ;)

suddenly my thinlinc client was redirected after authentication to a completely wrong IP address. turns out, that after the login, the clinet is forwarded to the agent that actually delivers the remote desktop. in my case that's the same machine, and thinlinc tries to guess the IP of that machine by using the ip of what it thinks is the machines primary ethernet interface. however, in my case, a virtual docker interface was suddenly considered to be the one to connect to. I found a good article in the thinlinc community that explains it all and shows the following solution:

$ sudo su -
# tl-config /vsmagent/agent_hostname=10.10.0.100
# systemctl restart vsmagent.service

where 10.10.0.100 needs to be replaced with the host's ip