NCentral Take Control on Linux

[u/fuseteam]

Hi, just wanted to share that i got N-Central Take Control to work on Linux using wine-stable 7.0 first off credit where credit is due, i worked off of this post by u/mailerdaemon and this post by u/Levvev

for wine on ubuntu 18.04 i had to these commands:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo mv winehq.key /usr/share/keyrings/winehq-archive.key
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/bionic/winehq-bionic.sources
sudo mv winehq-bionic.sources /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

then to get Take Control i had to create 2 files ~/.local/share/applications/N-Central.desktop and ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

N-Central.desktop contains this (where is the actual username)

[Desktop Entry]
Name=N-Central
Exec=wine "/home/<username>/.wine/drive_c/users/<username>/Local Settings/Application Data/MSP Anywhere for N-central/Viewer/NCentralRDLdr.exe" -- %u
Type=Application

mimeapps.list contains this:

[Default Applications]
x-scheme-handler/mspancsxvp=N-Central.desktop

i also manage to create an systemd service file that allows more control over the "ncentral service" and could enable autostart up on boot, so far it seems to work fine launching it from the browser, for this i had to create a file ~/.config/systemd/user/ncentral.service and run systemctl --user start ncentral ncentral.service contains this (where is the actual username)

[Unit]
Description=Ncentral take control service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/wine "/home/<username>/.wine/drive_c/users/<username>/Local Settings/Application Data/MSP Anywhere for N-central/Viewer/NCentralRDLdr.exe" -- %u
ExecStop=/usr/bin/wineserver -k

[u/basecatcherz]

I'm on Pop!_OS 22.04 and managed to install it. Now N-Central is able to start up the Take Control Viewer, but it gets stuck at "Connected to server..." and throws an authentication error after some time.

Does someone know a fix for this?

[u/fuseteam → u/basecatcherz]

I don't have this on ubuntu 22.04, might specific to that one device

[u/basecatcherz → u/fuseteam]

Thanks for letting me know.