Zorin connect - connection issue

General Help
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Hi everybody
New to the forum
Interested in understanding how zorin connect works
How do I connect my smartphone to the laptop?
Do I need to have bluetooth activated + devices on same network?
Or can I connect my phone to the device without having them on the same network?
Thanks in advance

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Hello and welcome,
it has to be on the same network, you don't need bleutooth, and if you have enable the firewall you need to add rules via terminal

# Open required ports for device discovery and communication
sudo ufw allow 1714:1764/tcp
sudo ufw allow 1714:1764/udp

# Apply the rules
sudo ufw reload

# Confirm they are active
sudo ufw status numbered | grep 17
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Hi and welcome.

You don't need to use the terminal to add the rules. GUFW includes a pre-made rule included in its interface.

See my tutorial here:

Oh and a word of advice. I recently installed KDE Connect on a VM and made the mistake of allowing remote keyboard. This messed up my android keyboard when trying to post on here! So don't select it.

Let us know how you get on.

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Thank you!
Will follow the advices.
One last thing:
Should I deactivate VPN?
If yes, on one device or both?
Cheers!

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For VPN it's ok it will work with but when you will make you first connection between PC and smartphone disable it from both sides

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thanks everybody
much appreciated

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