neko/docs/getting-started/troubleshooting.md

Troubleshooting

Neko UI loads but you don't see the screen and it gives you connection timeout or disconnected error?

Test your client

Test whether your client supports and can connect to WebRTC.

Networking

Most problems are networking related.

Check if your ports are correctly exposed using docker

Check that your ephemeral port range NEKO_EPR is correctly exposed as /udp port range.

In following example, specified range 52000-52100 must be also exposed using docker.

version: "3.4"
services:
  neko:
    image: "m1k1o/neko:firefox"
    restart: "unless-stopped"
    shm_size: "2gb"
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
+      - "52000-52100:52000-52100/udp"
    environment:
     NEKO_SCREEN: 1920x1080@30
     NEKO_PASSWORD: neko
     NEKO_PASSWORD_ADMIN: admin
+     NEKO_EPR: 52000-52100
     NEKO_ICELITE: 1

Validate UDP ports reachability

Ensure, that your ports are reachable through your external IP.

To validate UDP connection the simpliest way, run this on your server:

nc -ul 52101

And this on your local client:

nc -u [server ip] 52101

Then try to type on one end, you should see characters on the other side.

If it does not work for you, then most likely your port forwarding is not working correctly. Or your ISP is blocking traffic.

Check if your external IP was determined correctly

One of the first logs, when the server starts, writes down your external IP that will be sent to your clients to conenct to.

docker-compose logs neko | grep nat_ips

You should see this:

11:11AM INF webrtc starting ephemeral_port_range=52000-52100 ice_lite=true ice_servers="[{URLs:[stun:stun.l.google.com:19302] Username: Credential:<nil> CredentialType:password}]" module=webrtc nat_ips=<your-IP>

If your IP is not correct, you can specify own IP resover using NEKO_IPFETCH. It needs to return IP address that will be used.

version: "3.4"
services:
  neko:
    image: "m1k1o/neko:firefox"
    restart: "unless-stopped"
    shm_size: "2gb"
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
      - "52000-52100:52000-52100/udp"
    environment:
     NEKO_SCREEN: 1920x1080@30
     NEKO_PASSWORD: neko
     NEKO_PASSWORD_ADMIN: admin
     NEKO_EPR: 52000-52100
     NEKO_ICELITE: 1
+     NEKO_IPFETCH: https://ifconfig.co/ip

Or you can specify your IP address manually using NEKO_NAT1TO1:

version: "3.4"
services:
  neko:
    image: "m1k1o/neko:firefox"
    restart: "unless-stopped"
    shm_size: "2gb"
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
      - "52000-52100:52000-52100/udp"
    environment:
     NEKO_SCREEN: 1920x1080@30
     NEKO_PASSWORD: neko
     NEKO_PASSWORD_ADMIN: admin
     NEKO_EPR: 52000-52100
     NEKO_ICELITE: 1
+     NEKO_NAT1TO1: <your-IP>

If you want to use n.eko only locally, you must put here your local IP address, otherwise public address will be used.

Debug mode

To see verbose information from n.eko server, you can enable debug mode using NEKO_DEBUG.

version: "3.4"
services:
  neko:
    image: "m1k1o/neko:firefox"
    restart: "unless-stopped"
    shm_size: "2gb"
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
      - "52000-52100:52000-52100/udp"
    environment:
     NEKO_SCREEN: 1920x1080@30
     NEKO_PASSWORD: neko
     NEKO_PASSWORD_ADMIN: admin
     NEKO_EPR: 52000-52100
     NEKO_ICELITE: 1
+     NEKO_DEBUG: 1

Ensure, that you have enabled debug mode in javascript console too, in order to see verbose information from client.

Frequently Encountered Errors

Common server errors

WRN session created with and error error="invalid 1:1 NAT IP mapping"

Check your NEKO_NAT1TO1 or ensure, that NEKO_IPFETCH returns correct IP.

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WRN could not get server reflexive address udp6 stun:stun.l.google.com:19302: write udp6 [::]:52042->[2607:f8b0:4001:c1a::7f]:19302: sendto: cannot assign requested address

Check if your DNS is set up correctly, and if your IPv6 connectivity is working properly, or is disabled.

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WRN undeclaredMediaProcessor failed to open SrtcpSession: the DTLS transport has not started yet module=webrtc subsystem=

Check if your UDP ports are exposed correctly and reachable.

Common client errors

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at ws://<your-IP>/ws?password=neko.

Check if your TCP port is exposed correctly and your reverse proxy is correctly proxying websocket connections. And if your browser has not disabled websocket connections.

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Getting black screen with a cursor, but no browser.

Most likely you forgot to add -cap-add=SYS_ADMIN when using chromium-based brwosers.

Unrelated server errors

[ERROR:bus.cc(393)] Failed to connect to the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix")

This error originates from browser, that it could not connect to dbus. This does not affect us and can be ignored.