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General Category => Teamviewer for Linux => Topic started by: sirugh on March 07, 2011, 10:06:35 AM

Title: Changing TeamViewer ID on cloned linux VM
Post by: sirugh on March 07, 2011, 10:06:35 AM

Working on a project for school: Virtual Machines are cloned out from a single XP and Linux VM.

The XP virtual machines are generating new and unique IDs for teamviewer.

Linux Virtual Machines are generating the same ID number.

Is there a simple way I can edit something so that I can get a new ID# for each of my linux clone? Any and all help is welcome.

Title: Re: Changing TeamViewer ID on cloned linux VM
Post by: bzenone on June 13, 2011, 04:20:28 PM

I've run into a similar problem.  I don't see a solution for linux.  I'm investigating other remote access options to avoid this issue.  I have a need to clone machines and can't have this as an issue.

Title: Re: Changing TeamViewer ID on cloned linux VM
Post by: TeamViewer on June 15, 2011, 12:09:18 AM

Hello sirugh and bzenone,
it is possible to get an unique ID on a linux machine:
To resolve your issue please press alt+f2, enter "rm -r ~/.teamviewer" on the cloned machine while TeamViewer is closed and confirm.
Afterwards you can simply start TeamViewer and it should get its unique TeamViewer ID.
If you have any problems please do not hesitate to contact me.
Regards
Inga, TeamViewer Germany

Title: Re: Changing TeamViewer ID on cloned linux VM
Post by: darthmega on September 22, 2011, 06:05:45 PM

deleting the ./teamviewer directory did not work for me...

What did work and got a different ID everytime is to change the MAC Address on the VM Settings!

Hope that works for you guys.

Title: Re: Changing TeamViewer ID on cloned linux VM
Post by: rusulucian85 on March 20, 2013, 04:40:50 AM

Quote from: TeamViewer on June 15, 2011, 12:09:18 AM

Hello sirugh and bzenone,
it is possible to get an unique ID on a linux machine:
To resolve your issue please press alt+f2, enter "rm -r ~/.teamviewer" on the cloned machine while TeamViewer is closed and confirm.
Afterwards you can simply start TeamViewer and it should get its unique TeamViewer ID.
If you have any problems please do not hesitate to contact me.
Regards
Inga, TeamViewer Germany

The folder ~/.teamviewer does not exist in teamviewer8... How to change the ID in this case? I have 2 PC's with same ID, because the linux it's cloned on them ..  but the MAC address on the network adapter it's different.

I've tried to install and to re-install the teamviewer but .. i'm keep getting the same ID... Please help.

Thank you

Title: Re: Changing TeamViewer ID on cloned linux VM
Post by: quicky2g on May 08, 2013, 09:11:17 AM

I'm having the same problem using Debian with multiple different cloned physical machines using Clonezilla. I completely removed TeamViewer with:

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apt-get purge teamviewer
Then removed the config directory:

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rm -rf /home/<username>/.config/teamviewer8
I rebooted for the heck of it. I ran "updatedb" and "locate team". There were no config files left. I re-installed TeamViewer:

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dpkg -i teamviewer_linux.deb
I opened the GUI and saw the wine messages and got a default config...but still the same ID.

Title: Re: Changing TeamViewer ID on cloned linux VM
Post by: gianpieroizzo on May 16, 2013, 06:48:02 AM

Hi all,

just solved this issue.

You need to
- uninstall teamviewer rpm,


then delete completely
- /opt/teamviewer folder
- .config/teamviewer8 folder in all users home dir you used to connect to (so maybe even for root user)
- change the MAC Address of the virtual machine

Install again teamviewer RPM

tested on CentOS, it should work on other distributions too.