Remote Desktop TO a Fedora server?

gurutech · #1 26th June 2011, 08:19 PM

I have a Fedora box (currently F13, but slowly upgrading to F14 since F13 is EOL), and I want to be able to use RDP from my Windows machine into the F13/14 machine.

I've installed tigervnc and tigervnc-server, but not sure how to connect. I try RDP but it says it's not able to connect. Checked firewall settings, and port 3389 is open.

Any other ideas?

beaker_ · #2 26th June 2011, 09:23 PM

The fastest way for RDP is:

su
yum install xrdp
chkconfig xrdp on
service xrdp restart
exit

Then make sure tcp port 3389 is open.

gurutech · #3 27th June 2011, 02:24 AM

Seems to only work when I put the first letter of my user name as a capital letter. If I go all lowercase, it won't let me in.

Strange... lol

beaker_ · #4 27th June 2011, 03:13 AM

It's case sensitive.

year4e · #5 19th July 2012, 07:42 AM

with the above solution you r getting Remote Desktop or Desktop Sharing using VNC?

errorxp · #6 19th July 2012, 08:07 AM

I think xrdp still uses vnc to share the desktop.
I've found nomachine to be a better option (once you get it working). It works through ssh and has a windows client as well.
http://www.nomachine.com/download.php

beaker_ · #7 21st July 2012, 12:29 AM

And the difference is:

Quote:

The goal of this project is to provide a fully functional Linux terminal server, capable of accepting connections from rdesktop and Microsoft's own terminal server / remote desktop clients.

http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/document...ign/index.html

year4e · #8 21st July 2012, 02:45 PM

with the help of @beaker now i am able to rdp from windows pc. and with rdesktop installed i can remote desktop to windows pc. thanks to all for help

beaker_ · #9 21st July 2012, 04:39 PM

Ummm..., try remmina as a client.

su
yum install remmina remmina-plugins*
exit

It's kind of a one stop tool. Yes it uses rdesktop for rdp.

You do want to try nomachines though. There are differences, easily configure which session to lauch (gnome-shell fallback, cinnamon, e17, kde) and like errorxp pointed out, it works through ssh. You'll have to chase the windows client though.

For linux server & client:

su
yum install freenx-*
yum install remmina remmina-plugins*
exit

Some configuring is required but a quick google or forum search should get you rolling.