Why I can't open an application with ssh?

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I have a problem to open an application with the Terminal on mac. I'm using a Macbook (running on High Sierra 10.13.6) and want to open an application on a remote computer using ssh. This remote computer is a Imac (MacOS Catalina).

I try to launch an application using the following command line :

open -a TeamViewer

but it fails to open and returns the following error message:

LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /Applications/TeamViewer.app with error -610.

Does anyone have an idea of how to solve this problem ?

Thanks,

ssh macos
2 Answers

It is because you are trying to open TeamViewer as root. I'm assuming the root user doesn't have a window manager open.

You could log into the Mac as root via the Mac login screen and then try ssh into the machine as root and try to open TeamViewer again but it would be easier and less bat5h1t if you just used w to see who's logged in, then login [username-thats-logged-in] then open TeamViewer.

hope this helps.

user_137838080

You are attempting to run the Teamviewer Gui application, either as a different user to the currently logged in user or no user is logged in at all so the application doesn't have permission or there is no user display server to connect to.

If you've installed TeamViewer it should also install the appropriate LaunchDaemons and start the service when the machine starts.

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist

In this file I find the command to start the teamviewer service:

/Applications/TeamViewer.app/Contents/MacOS/TeamViewer_Service -Module Full

When I run this command (you may want to background or nohup it) I can see the server process running:

77890 ttys000    0:00.34 /Applications/TeamViewer.app/Contents/MacOS/TeamViewer_Service -Module Full

Depending on how teamviewer is configured on that machine. It may listen for LAN connections and/or establish a connection to the teamviewer cloud servers.

You can use netstat or lsof to verify this.

Mark

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