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[true911]

I understand the host/remote concept.  This switches as I move to different machines on my network, but I am referring to two specific machines in this case, the remote is using NM client to connect to the host’s NM server.

When you said Stream I immediately knew what you meant, I run StreamController on my main desktop only to configure my Stream Desk hardware device.  In this case that machine is the remote, not the server, but I disabled it nonetheless.

tl;dr – I am working now across all my machines.  I don’t know what changed, unless it was lan-wide, because I was experiencing the same problem on 5 total machines in both directions, only one of which had StreamController equipped.

For your interest:

I had my first breakthrough where I connected to my same host and was able to control it normally.  Curious, I re-enabled StreamController and was still able to make that connection normally.  Remote and host are the same machines I was referring to earlier  and both are LMDE6.

I decided to try out different host/remote combinations on the LAN – that’s why I installed it in the first place – and I was now able to connect different pairs together that were also not working previously.  I had one machine, SERVER, that continued to respond as read-only using multiple clients on other machines.  I used sudo apt purge, rebooted, and reinstalled it, and now it it working with all the others.  (SERVER is the only machine running Linux Mint 22.2)

I don’t have any reasonable explanation or working theory about how or why this resolved itself.  As mentioned the StreamController app was installed on the remote/client machine, not the host/server, and is running there again successfully without interference.

Thanks for taking the time to look into this and I can only hope I provided enough detail that it might be useful in some way in the future.

 

[true911]

Sorry in advance, I don’t quite have the code blocks working for me yet.

I’m using two mini PCs, call them remote and host.  I wasn’t sure which you wanted me to work on so I did both.  They were in similar condition.

XTEST/xdotool was not installed on either, so I installed it, and the output was to type the letter “a” at the prompt.  modinfo uinput is working on both.

I’m still making only a view-only connection at this point.

Here is the xinput list output from the remote/HTPC:

┌─[dilbert][HTPC][~]
└─▪  xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SINO WEALTH Gaming KB  Consumer Control 	id=13	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech M325                           	id=15	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech M325                           	id=18	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech M325                           	id=19	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech M325                           	id=20	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=6	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                               	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ SINO WEALTH Gaming KB  System Control   	id=9	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ SINO WEALTH Gaming KB                   	id=10	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ C-Media Electronics Inc. USB Audio Device	id=11	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Jabra Link 370                          	id=12	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ SINO WEALTH Gaming KB  Consumer Control 	id=14	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ SINO WEALTH Gaming KB  Keyboard         	id=16	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Elgato Stream Deck                      	id=17	[slave  keyboard (3)]

and here is the output from xinput list on the host/SERVER:

┌─[dilbert][SERVER][~]
└─▪ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SINO WEALTH Gaming KB Consumer Control id=15 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech M325 id=17 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech M325 id=18 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech M325 id=19 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech M325 id=20 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ C-Media Electronics Inc. USB Audio Device id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Jabra Link 370 id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Elgato Stream Deck id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SINO WEALTH Gaming KB id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SINO WEALTH Gaming KB System Control id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SINO WEALTH Gaming KB Keyboard id=16 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SINO WEALTH Gaming KB Consumer Control id=21 [slave keyboard (3)]

[true911]

I also tried the two ExtraOptions items in node.cfg and didn’t see any difference.

 

[true911]

OK, I bumped up the log level to Debug, restarted the server, tried a connection from another machine, disconnected, then returned to the server and used the “Take the logs” button to create the attached file.

Attachments:

1. Server-logs-2025-10-07-10.13.04.zip

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