* restart xrdp service: sudo service xrdp restart (before it had something which started with a. * secondly we modify startup file for xRDP located at /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh Now we modify 2 files to make sure xrdp uses xfce4 sudo apt-get install gnome-icon-theme-full tango-icon-theme : installs icon sets sudo apt-get install xfce4-terminal : way better than xterm Install xfce4 desktop environment an update to xfce, minimalistic faster and lightweight allow the vncserver port from the firewall: sudo ufw allow # 'netstat -lvp | grep vnc' to check out the ports that tightvnc is listening on for run tightvncserver (no need to create a view-only password) Install tightvncserver on Linux server machine. allow xrdp port (probably 3389) through firewall 0.0.0.0 is the local server address of xrdp edit the '/etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini' file to include the line: Xrdp is the daemon that handles RDP remote desktop access from Windows machines to Linux

It can provide a fully functional Linux terminal server, capable of accepting connectionsįrom rdesktop, freerdp, and Microsoft's own terminal server / remote desktop clients. install xrdp which uses the remote desktop protocol to present a GUI to the user.

(b for better) Windows to Linux with full GUI support. > X authority file for local display = point to the Xming.exe executable

Windows to Linux from terminal with graphics support - Launch XMing on Windows client * for a Linux Ubuntu computer use XQuartz Install an X11 server on the computer that is trying to connect (client). To allow computers to connect with X11 graphics system capabilities as well, you need to Remote Desktop between any OS's Step-By-Step guideįirst do the following on the server computer that you will connect via remote desktop: - Allow other users to view your desktop You'll be fine with that if you follow step by step (promise!). In case you missed it, i will list the entire procedure below (which was a pain to assemble).

Disable firewall ( sudo ufw disable) on server pc and then recheck (might even need another restart).

On file /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini add address=0.0.0.0 which is the default xrdp address.Īlso you have to permit firewall to listen to connections on port 3389 that xrdp is working on.

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