I'm trying to use Chrome Remote Desktop to access my machine from a Mac. When I try the "enable remote connections" step it tries for a while then times out with error "failed to start remote access service." If I close the window, then my machine shows up and says "(last online 3:49:58 PM)" where the time is the time I attempted to start the service.
I've tried reinstalling chrome and chrome remote desktop and following the instructions in this question. I can connect to my computer through the "remote assistance," and I can connect to my Mac from my linux machine. Any other ideas?
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I think I figured out what was going on. First I deleted my chrome remote desktop installation and all config files associated with google chrome. Then I reinstalled, and followed these edits here so I could remote in to the current session. It worked for about 24 hours, then it failed to connect after that.
So I deleted everything again, and reinstalled without configuring it to connect to the current session. It has been working fine now. In short, you used to be able to edit the code to connect to the current session, but with the recent update this now causes errors.