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I have teamviewer installed on a remote computer, protected by a long complicated password. I'd like someone to join a session so that they can see what I'm doing on the remote, but I don't want to give the the password. One reason I don't want to give the permanent password is that they usually have problems correctly entering long passwords.

I suppose I could temporarily change the access password, but I'd rather avoid that if possible.

I don't have physical access to the remote computer. It's a windows machine running teamviewer 9, I connect with a laptop and the other person would be using the ipad app.

What can I do to give them access for the one session?

foosion
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  • You have two options: 1) help the person type in the password or 2) change the password. I think you've answered your own question, right? – EEAA Mar 24 '15 at 14:22
  • @EEAA See Esa Jokinen's answer. I'm not in the same location as the other person, making it difficult to help them type. – foosion Mar 24 '15 at 14:27

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TeamViewer has by default a random password that changes on every reboot and can be manually changed by pressing an arrow button alongside. The personal password provided in setup is different type of authentication and does not change in this operation.

For one time access I suggest either

  • providing the random password from allow remote control section in main window and changing it after the connection
  • providing only the ID and accepting the incoming connection
Esa Jokinen
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  • I don't currently have access to the remote, so will test once I do an revert. I didn't realize that you can have both a personal password (what I called a permanent password) and a random password. – foosion Mar 24 '15 at 14:32
  • The random password worked. However, when using an app to connect, the app asked for a password and nothing appeared on the remote about accepting an incoming connection. – foosion Mar 24 '15 at 14:48