xRDP – Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server
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Install xRDP on Ubuntu
Open the terminal and run the following command
sudo apt-get install xrdp
Now you need to install alternate Desktop Environment to be used with xRDP.You can install XFCE or LXDE
For xfce4 run the following command from your terminal
sudo apt-get install xfce4
For lxde run the following command from your terminal
sudo apt-get install lxde
Configure xRDP to use xfce4 or lxde Environment
For xfce4 users
From the terminal issue the following command
echo xfce4-session > ~/.xsession
Restart the xrdp service using following command
sudo service xrdp restart
For lxde users
From the terminal issue the following command
echo lxsession -s LXDE -e LXDE > ~/.xsession
Restart the xrdp service using following command
sudo service xrdp restart
If you have multiple users want to connect ubuntu system using xrdp you will need to configure xsession file for each user
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Very nice. But, XRDP to Mint17 XFCE version doesn’t work properly: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1348091. Is there a command for that, or that’s Mint problem?
IIRC, RDP on Windows does not require any configuration of the firewall/router. Iirc, Microsoft has an intermediary server which negotiates the connections. Is that the case with xRDP? thx