How to restart Chrome Remote Desktop from command line

Restarting the service

Linux: The host process is a normal Linux service, so you can restart it by typing this in your SSH session:

sudo service chrome-remote-desktop restart

You should only have to wait a few seconds before it's ready for you to try connecting.

Windows, run these commands to restart the service (thanks @JohnLock):

net stop chromoting
net start chromoting

macOS:

launchctl start org.chromium.chromoting

Reinstalling the service

(I don't know how to install/reinstall Chrome Remote Desktop via SSH. Someone please update this answer if you know how.)


On Windows:

    net stop chromoting
    net start chromoting