Mirroring UDOOs Desktop on your PC with VNC Remote Desktop

If you don’t have a monitor, keyboard and mouse you can still use UDOO DUAL/QUAD easily at its full potential. You can connect to UDOO DUAL/QUAD Remote Desktop via VNC.

To do that, just follow these steps:

Assign a static address to your UDOO DUAL/QUAD

Edit the /etc/network/interfaces file

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
ip 192.168.137.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.137.1

Connect UDOO DUAL/QUAD to your PC via a Lan Cable

Prepare your PC Networking as follows:

On Windows:

Go to Network Settings, Select your wireless adapter and choose “Advanced Properties” then Sharing. Share this connection with your Ethernet Adapter, and hit apply. At this point, your pc will have 192.168.137.1 as IP

This means that UDOO DUAL/QUAD will share internet connection trough your PC

On Mac OS X:

Go to settings, then Network Set your Ethernet adaper as “Manual” Insert the following settings

IP: 192.168.137.1
NETMASK: 255.255.255.0
GATEWAY: 192.168.137.1
Hit Apply

On Linux:

Edit your Network interfaces as follows:

IP: 192.168.137.1
NETMASK: 255.255.255.0
GATEWAY: 192.168.137.1
And bridge your Wireless connection with Ethernet

Establish a remote VNC connection

Now you’re ready to power on your UDOO DUAL/QUAD, make sure the SD Card with UDOOBuntu is inserted. The last step is installing and configuring a VNC Client.

On Windows:

Download and install RealVNC Viewer for Windows Once opened, insert UDOO DUAL/QUAD’s IP followed by :5901 (192.168.137.2:5901) Insert the password: ubuntu Done! Browse UDOO DUAL/QUAD remotely with your Windows machine

On Mac OSX:

Download and install RealVNC Viewer for Mac Once opened, insert UDOO DUAL/QUAD’s IP followed by :5901 (192.168.137.2:5901) Insert the password: ubuntu Done! Browse UDOO DUAL/QUAD remotely with your Mac

On Linux Ubuntu:

Install via terminal xvnc4viewer

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xvnc4viewer

Launch xvncviewer with

sudo xvncviewer

Insert UDOO DUAL/QUAD’s IP followed by :5901 (192.168.137.2:5901) Insert Server’s Password: ubuntu Done! Browse UDOO DUAL/QUAD remotely with your Linux machine! More informations can be found at the UDOO VNC Tutorial Page