Steam remote play, locked pc, question

[hup]

I know stream remote play, lets your stream games over the internet now

Buw how does it work then the host are locked, by password?
Windows lock screen

[UNSC Trek]

You have to have the PC unlocked before you can use steam remote play. Install teamviewer, or google remote desktop, and unlock your PC before you try to play, otherwise you're completely locked out.

[hup]

Originally posted by UNSC Trek:

You have to have the PC unlocked before you can use steam remote play. Install teamviewer, or google remote desktop, and unlock your PC before you try to play, otherwise you're completely locked out.

Thanks

Hope that will change in the future

[UNSC Trek]

This is due to Windows Security features, NOT a steam issue. Steam employs a virtual remote connection just like Team Viewer, and will not unlock your PC. The only way Steam can change this, is if it creates a true Remote Desktop situation, which requires a LOT more programming, configuration, updates, and compliance with the hundreds of Windows configurations out there... not to mention bypassing a lot of internal Windows security, remote access lock outs, and hacker prevention. I highly doubt This will ever be changed.

[hup]

Originally posted by UNSC Trek:

This is due to Windows Security features, NOT a steam issue. Steam employs a virtual remote connection just like Team Viewer, and will not unlock your PC. The only way Steam can change this, is if it creates a true Remote Desktop situation, which requires a LOT more programming, configuration, updates, and compliance with the hundreds of Windows configurations out there... not to mention bypassing a lot of internal Windows security, remote access lock outs, and hacker prevention. I highly doubt This will ever be changed.

Steam could let the user enter the password in steam
Send a login request, and then connect

[hup]

Originally posted by UNSC Trek:

You have to have the PC unlocked before you can use steam remote play. Install teamviewer, or google remote desktop, and unlock your PC before you try to play, otherwise you're completely locked out.

Weird
Tested it with my steam link
I got the login screen, no problem
But since i dont have a keaybord i canr login

So it look like it will work on a laptop

[Doug Wallaroo]

I've had different problems with remote play, when it crashed on my phone and pc. For some reason it uninstalled all my audio settings and installed streaming ones, and i couldnt get back on remote play on my phone without being greeted by a black screen.

[michael]

Make a file "UnlockScreen.cmd" and put this in there:

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "$sessionid=((quser $env:USERNAME | select -Skip 1) -split '\s+')[2]; tscon $sessionid /dest:console" 2> UnlockErrors.log@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "$sessionid=((quser $env:USERNAME | select -Skip 1) -split '\s+')[2]; tscon $sessionid /dest:console" 2> UnlockErrors.log

Then, via Remote Desktop, execute as administrator. This will unlock your screen remotely.

[UNSC Trek]

Originally posted by michael:

Make a file "UnlockScreen.cmd" and put this in there:

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "$sessionid=((quser $env:USERNAME | select -Skip 1) -split '\s+')[2]; tscon $sessionid /dest:console" 2> UnlockErrors.log@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "$sessionid=((quser $env:USERNAME | select -Skip 1) -split '\s+')[2]; tscon $sessionid /dest:console" 2> UnlockErrors.log

Then, via Remote Desktop, execute as administrator. This will unlock your screen remotely.

Remote desktop - something not remotely associated with Steam Remote Gaming. :D

[Uncovery]

You need to unlock your PC. This is possible when using a remote client that does NOT automatically after the session. I personally recomend VNC server for this. Teamviewer should work the same.

You can RDP into your PC, install VNC, connect from your client to the host and then play.
I know this is not ideal since you have an additional client on your machine, but it's still better than leaving the PC without a password.

[UNSC Trek]

Yeah, I've long since figured out that google remote desktop is something I have to keep running all the time to fix this. :P Now my bigger issue is once I'm in-game remotely, if there's a workshop content update, the game dropps out, kicks me off, and then wont' re-establish unless I close steam on both systems, and re-launch it. Haha!

[gordan]

Great tip, kudos to Michael.

I am using this successfully as follows:

1) RDP into Windows from my Linux machine and start Steam in the RDP session.

2) Use tscon to consolify my RDP session. This disconnects my RDP session.

3) Connect from Steam in Linux to stream a game from the Windows machine.

There is only one problem - I get no sound. If I play in the RDP session (performance is reasonable, but only works in windowed mode which causes problems in some FPS games with mouse capture), I have sound over RDP. If I switch to Steam streaming, there is no sound.

Even if I switch to the Steam audio device in game settings, no sound comes out of steam client on the client side.

Is there a workaround? This is the last piece missing for a 100% perfect steam+RDP experience.

[jota0222]

It has been a year but, Is your RDP client configured to use the sound

Originally posted by gordan:

Great tip, kudos to Michael.

I am using this successfully as follows:

1) RDP into Windows from my Linux machine and start Steam in the RDP session.

2) Use tscon to consolify my RDP session. This disconnects my RDP session.

3) Connect from Steam in Linux to stream a game from the Windows machine.

There is only one problem - I get no sound. If I play in the RDP session (performance is reasonable, but only works in windowed mode which causes problems in some FPS games with mouse capture), I have sound over RDP. If I switch to Steam streaming, there is no sound.

Even if I switch to the Steam audio device in game settings, no sound comes out of steam client on the client side.

Is there a workaround? This is the last piece missing for a 100% perfect steam+RDP experience.

It has been a year since but, is your RDP client configured to play the sound in the server instead of the client? I'm thinking you get this because RDP replaces sound devices with its own when it's played in the connected device.

[gordan]

Oh, hey, I fixed it a while back. And I think you are right, I vaguely recall that the fix was to tell Steam to use remotely "rendered" sound.

[Corinthas]

May I ask... WHATS THE #@$@$# POINT?!
Hey play remotely but you need to be at home to unlock your PC :D
Might as well demand you plug a hdmi cable from your GPU into the deck :D

[gordan]

Since you asked:

The #@$@$# point is that I refuse to run the horror that is Windows on bare metal. I use Linux on my workstation. But there are some games without Linux ports that don't run properly in Proton.

So I run a Windows VM with GPU passed through to it, and "remote" game on it.

And when Windows inevitably eventually craps itself due to an automatic update gone wrong, I can power off the VM, zfs rollback it's virtual disk to the day when it still worked OK, and carry on as if nothing happened.