Setting up remote access while travelling - advice requested

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I am planning to be away from home for a while and need to be able to access my home workstation. Being able to access my NAS would also be a bonus.

I have never needed to do this before and there are many options which I might use but am looking for a desktop experience rather than ssh on cli.

Both TigerVNC and KRDC are on my available on my workstation but there are other possibilities and the purpose of this message is to ask for advice and help from those who are more experienced and knowledgeable than I.

If anybody has time and can help it would be greatly appreciated.
Budgie2

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@Budgie2 look at TeamViewer then, you can set that up with a password and leave the service running. Test it out to see what you can/can’t do.

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Getting TeamViewer to work was a bit of a struggle with the login process but got there in the end and the connection works exactly as hoped but two issues.

Tired old eyes make hard work of the image on the laptop so I planned to use a local TV with HDMI connection. The laptop I am taking is a Thinkpad W530 which has a mini DisplayPort so I purchased an active adaptor to convert to HDMI.

To date I have had absolutely no joy with this. Dead as a Dodo.
I booted into Windows 10 and this gave me a very strange result. My laptop screen shows my deskop screen with all the icons on the desktop and if I connected to the TeamViewer host I could see the remote screen all as hoped but the TV connected by HDMI displayed a plain vanilla Windows screen with no desktop icons or browser window or anything.

If I reboot to TW my TV screen goes to No signal.
Where am I going wrong please?

My second question concerns how to play the media because what I get now is the sound from the laptop but it is being played by the remote workstation. How can I select a file and play on laptop or another local media player device or am I asking the impossible using TeamViewer?

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My laptop (CLEVO) has OPTIMUS graphics (i.e. intel CPU graphic plus NVIDIA graphics card) and all of the external graphic ports (like DP) are connected to the NVIDIA-card only.

When I run on i915 only there will be no signal on the external ports. I have to use nouveau or the NVIDIA driver to get a signal on the external ports.

You could check the manual of your laptop if it has the same setup.

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