Remote Access with SSH and Remote Desktop - Raspberry Pi and Python tutorials p.3

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what's going on everybody and welcome to another Raspberry Pi tutorial in this tutorial what we're going to be talking about is accessing your Raspberry Pi remotely from your local network you can access your Raspberry Pi from anywhere in the world you can set that up but that has a lot less to do with the Raspberry Pi itself and more to do with your actual Network and that's a much more advanced tutorial we're not going to be getting into that so uh there's two major ways to connect to your Raspberry Pi one is via some sort of remote desktop and the other is via just SSH which is secure shell both have their own good benefits to them so you would do like a remote desktop if you have any sort of uh UI or if you've got video that you want to show or you just don't you you want to actually just share um the the keyboard and mouse on some computer between the Raspberry Pi and all that you don't want to have to hook it up every time so um the first thing that we need to do to remotely access the pi is make sure we were connected in some way to the local net networ you can come up here to your Wi-Fi click on that um you can't see it actually cuz my face is in the way there uh you can um choose your uh Wi-Fi make sure you're connected or you can connect you know physically with an ethernet cable or whatever now once you've got that go ahead and do control alt and T and that should open up a um your terminal now I want to make it a little larger so everybody you can see and hopefully that's not too large let's see what we get ah not bad so um so now we're going to go ahead and do is uh you can do if config and that will give you a bunch of information if you are connected um physically it would probably your internet IP address would be up here um but I am not connected physically I'm actually connected via Wireless slan so that's down here and what you're looking for is your inet address my address is 1926 local address 192 168 0103 okay so we have that information now uh what we want to do is let's see if I can get to the bottom of this I've clearly made this too big Let's uh go down a little bit um once we've done that once we have that we could in theory connect to the Raspberry Pi but it's not going to let us because the SSH server is disabled by default now on the Raspberry Pi if you have an older Raspberry Pi um actually I suppose it would come with the installation so like your actual operating system so it used to be the case that SSH was always just enabled by default but as more and more people are using raspberry pies they're using them in their businesses and all that um it has become a better idea to not do that because if people got an open wi-fi they just need to find the Raspberry Pi's IP address they know the default login and password so that can be problematic so generally if you do have the SSH server enabled and you're using the default username and password is going to keep warning you by the way you're doing this that's stupid anyway we're going to open up the raspy config so do pseudo maybe H I'm still not on screen I don't think let's see if I can uh do this I think we're just typing off screen yeah so what you want to do is pseudo raspi-config hit enter and this is the configuration for your Raspberry Pi you can do a whole bunch of stuff you can change the password you can uh change your host name you can do boot options we're interested in interfacing options so go ahead and enter there and we want to enable SSH so go ahead and enter here and would you like the SSH server to be enabled yes boom done okay so now SSH is enabled um and we can connect so at this point we actually can connect via SSH now if you aren't familiar with SSH we'll hit finish um basically on Windows you're going to need something like putty so P TTY you can go to putty. org um download that and you can connect that way or if you're on Macintosh or Linux it's as simple as opening up your terminal and doing SSH username which would be Pi at whatever your IP address is in my case it was 192 168 0103 so you can do that and connect now if you're on Windows it's a little more challenging um oops I've already got this one's already up but uh basically let's do new session um you'd come over here and you'd type in the IP address so 192 168 0103 hit enter this will pop up asks you to log in all login is pi password is Rasberry by default connected and boom and as you can see um SSH is enabled and the default password for pi has not been changed blah blah BL and the next time we log into the actual gooey desktop we'll also have another warning there telling us that we're we're probably making a big mistake so um okay so that's how you can SSH into the Raspberry Pi once you do that it's basically the command line as you can see and so now we can do all kinds of stuff here once you've done that um like I was saying before there are going to be times where you want a gooey desktop for whatever reason so you can also do a remote desktop now for this on Windows and Mac you probably the easiest is just to download remote desktop by Microsoft I think Mac also has a remote desktop software I'm not sure um and then on Linux it's gr desktop so guey remote desktop gr desktop so that would be gr desktop like so otherwise if you're on Mac or Windows it's uh virtual or I'm sorry it's remote desktop by Microsoft Microsoft okay if you're on Windows you should already have it now in order to get there what we need to do is install some sort of remote remote desktop client on the Raspberry Pi I choose xrdp if you have um already tried to install xrdp and it failed for whatever reason in the past it was easier now it's harder for some reason because you already have a VNC server you might need to run pseudo app get remove xrdp VNC for server and tight VNC server if you've already tried to install um you might need to run that command just to remove everything and start clean otherwise if you are clean um you should be able to just do pseudo apt get install tight VNC server [Music] server now I already have it so it should be done and then you can do pseudo app get install xrdp if for whatever reason something gets uh when when you go to connect and it doesn't work for whatever reason it hangs or whatever um go ahead and run that thing to to just clear everything and try again so once you've got xrdp installed you're good to go you you could restart the service xrdp but it should be enabled by default once you install now on Windows what you can do is um open remote desktop and in here you can type the IP address I'm actually 103 hit connect um yes and then here's your like your login screen now you can type Pi raspberry hit enter and if you hang here that's probably when you'll want to do your uh you know remove everything and try again otherwise here we are in the remote desktop now because I already have a remote desktop um it's just showing me like a copy of this other one um because this is also a remote desktop connection but normally you won't share like so this is not on the screen on the actual Raspberry Pi and I can even turn it on and show you that that is not showing you know this stuff here and if you are on a remote desktop and you're trying to show uh something from the RAs by camera by default it's actually going to show on that screen I'm not positive if you unplug the HDMI if it would work but anyway um no big deal but just know sometimes it can be kind of screwy anyway um that's it for the remote desktop and remote connection SSH all that fun stuff if you're having a problem you got questions uh whatever feel free to leave them below otherwise I'll see you in the next tutorial where we're going to be talking about actual terminal navigation and commands and all that kind of stuff so I will see you in the next tutorial