The start-host command asked the expected questions of the computer name and PIN, then gave the error: Couldn't start host: OAuth error. This is the command I got from the Chrome site, modified to work with CentOS: DISPLAY= /usr/lib64/chrome-remote-desktop/start-host -code='' -redirect-url='' -name= Sign in to your Google account Before you can proceed, fire up your Chrome browser and navigate to Google login page and sign in to your Google Account using your gmail account. Share Improve this answer Follow answered at 4:11 Kelvin 428 5 6 Thank you Just worked for me on an Ubuntu 20.04 fresh install. To setup Ubuntu 18.04 to be accessed via Chrome Remote Desktop, follow the following steps. I can get X11 to sort-of work remotely, but not well enough to run oneWEX. So simply create it via mkdir /.config/chrome-remote-desktop, refresh your chrome, and the 'turn on' section will show up. If I can't get Chrome Remote Desktop working, I'd be willing to try another method to run GUI-based applications (in this case, IBM's oneWEX).

I did the likely web searches and found some fairly old and unhelpful information, but nothing useful. Check that you are part of the chrome-remote. There was not an option for CentOS, so I chose 'Debian' and when it gave me the connect command, I replaced the path to start-host with the CentOS one of /usr/lib64/chrome-remote-desktop/start-host, and running the resulting command fails. sudo dpkg -i b sudo usermod -a -G chrome-remote-desktop yourusername. I accessed the site with Chrome, filled out the choices, and went through the authorization phase. When I run the start-host command, it fails with 'OAuth error' and no more information. I'm running CentOS 7 in a Google Compute Engine VM, and trying to connect to it via Chrome Remote Desktop.

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