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General Category => Teamviewer for Linux => Topic started by: deadmau5 on March 19, 2015, 04:11:06 PM

Title: Teamviewer File Transfer - not able to view local folder, nor download file
Post by: deadmau5 on March 19, 2015, 04:11:06 PM

Hi there,

I want to transfer a file from a windows 7 PC to my ubuntu desktop - unfortunately the local drive on the left does not show the files of my ubuntu drive.  I try downloading the file, but tviewer says it cannot write the file.  What am I missing ?

Thank you for your help and suggestions !

Title: Re: Teamviewer File Transfer - not able to view local folder, nor download file
Post by: matt on March 19, 2015, 08:24:26 PM

Check permissions on the destination folder
In windows the 'system' needs access (The same user than runs the Teamviewer service for unattended access)
Not sure what the equivalent in Ubuntu is...

Title: Re: Teamviewer File Transfer - not able to view local folder, nor download file
Post by: deadmau5 on March 20, 2015, 05:03:21 AM

Thank you for suggesting.   

Folder permissions are the same as for other software running under WINE, like keepass which does not encounter the same issue.   

I briefly considered running TViewer under root priviledges (yikes!) to see if permissions were at fault:

http://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos/linux/how-to-run-teamviewer-as-root-centos-rhel-ubuntu-linux-mint-fedora.html -

but to no avail, because this hack is for version 7 and I could not find the "wrapper" file.

So I installed a SFTP-Server on the host-machine as a workaround in the meantime.