Google Chrome Remote Desktop

Introduction

A simple guide to setting up the FREE Google Chrome Remote Desktop solution.

Google Chrome

You will need to have Google's Chrome web-browser for Google Chrome Remote Desktop to work. If you do not already have it installed, please do so now.

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Security

We highly recommend creating a new Google account for this purpose. This new account will be used only for this purpose; never to be used for anything else thus reducing the risk of the account information being compromised due to someone hacking a third-party website. Additionally, we'd prefer not to have access to your personal Google account; so setting up a new account takes care of this.

For the following example, we will use KAAA-FM as the call letters.

• Browse to https://accounts.google.com/SignUp?hl=en.
• For first name, we recommend entering KAAA.
• For the last name, we recommend entering the word Remote.
• For the user name, enter kaaaremote.
• For the password, choose something that makes sense; following the instructions on the screen.
• Click Next to go to the next screen.
• You will then need to enter a phone number in order to verify that you are a "real person". Enter your mobile number so that you can receive a text with the 6-digit verification code.
• Click Next.
• Enter the code you received (it's the 6 digit number after the G-).
• Click Verify.
• On the next screen, you'll need to enter a "Recovery email address". This can be any valid email address; we recommend using your regular email account so that it is easy to recover the account in case anyone forgets the password.
• For the birthday Month, Day, and Year, we usually enter January, 1, and 1970. (This has to be done to "verify" you are 18 years or older.)
• For gender, feel free to choose whatever you are comfortable with.
• Click Next.
• On the next screen, click Skip.
• On the next screen, use the down-chevron or scroll bar to "read" through the Privacy and Terms. Once at the bottom of the document, the I agree button will become visible.
• Click I agree.

Now that you have a new account, we can begin the setup process.

Installing Google Chrome Remote Desktop Extension

• Open Google Chrome web browser.
• Navigate to here.
• Click the Add to Chrome button (upper-right portion of the page) and follow the on screen instructions.

This will setup the mechanism that allows the actual software to be installed.

Installing Google Chrome Remote Desktop

• Open Google Chrome web browser.
• Navigate to https://remotedesktop.google.com.
• Confirm that you are logged in with the correct account (upper-right corner of the page).
• You should see a Set up remote access screen on this page.
• Click the "download chrome remote desktop" image (down arrow with a line under it) to begin.
• Follow the on screen instructions that will walk you through the process.

Once completed, you should now see your machine in the list with a notation that it is on-line.

Give Us Access

At this point all that you need to do is provide us with the Google account that was created to set this up.