Home Subscribe Divers Linux

Transcription

4/27/2014
Griffon's IT Library » XRDP » Ubuntu 14.04 – How to install xrdp in Ubuntu 14.04
Home
Subscribe
Divers
Linux
OpenSource
Ubuntu
XRDP
Zen Load Balancer
Microsoft
Deploy Technics
Exchange
Migration
RDS 2012 R2
Scripting
Sharepoint
SQL Server
Tips & Tricks
Win8/Win2012
Windows 2008/R2
Storage
Tools
Virtualization
Hyper-V
Others
PROXMOX VE
VMWare
Griffon's IT Library
Simple IT Library for the rest of us
Ubuntu 14.04 – How to...
Ubuntu 14.04 – How to install xrdp in Ubuntu 14.04
Date Posted: April 21st, 2014
Written by Griffon
Category: XRDP
http://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=5305
1/9
4/27/2014
Hello World,
Ubuntu 14.04 has been released on April 17th 2014 and we already released the traditional post about how to perform a fresh install.
We didn’t covered the upgrade process because it’s quite easy nowadays. Basically, you will be notified that a new version is available
and you will be asked if you want to upgrade to the latest version.
Some readers and some of my colleagues have been asking for a post about XRDP functionality in Ubuntu 14.04. If you follow me,
you know that we have been using xrdp package in order to connect to linux machines using the built-in remote desktop client available
within Windows Operating System.
You probably also know that since the introduction of Unity Desktop Interface in Ubuntu you need to tweak the configuration in order
to have it working. The most annoying part while using xrdp (with Ubuntu) is the fact that you have to install an alternate desktop
environment.
So, in this post, we will describe the steps needed in order to install xrdp and the xfce alternate desktop that will be used while remoting
into your Ubuntu 14.04 machine.
Let’s Go !
Install XRDP Package from Ubuntu Repository
In this post, we will be installing the standard xrdp package from the Ubuntu Repository. In order to perform the installation of the
xrdp package, you will login into your ubuntu 14.04 machine.
Using the Dash button, in the search box, type Terminal
Click on Picture for Better Resolution
Click on the terminal icon and the Terminal console will open
In the Terminal, type the following command
2/9
4/27/2014
sudo apt-get install xrdp
You will be prompted for your password
You will be then informed about the package size. To proceed with the installation, press Y
Wait for the completion
When done, you need to install an alternate desktop environment. In our scenario, we are using xfce4
Installing the xfce4 Desktop environment
In the Terminal console; type the following command
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xfce4
You might be prompted for a password.Enter the password and press enter
You will be then informed about the package size. To proceed with the installation, press Y
Wait for the completion
3/9
4/27/2014
Configure xrdp to use xfce desktop environment
At this stage, you have to configure your Ubuntu machine in order for xrdp to know that the xfce desktop will be used instead of the
Unity or Gnome (which are not working anymore in Ubuntu). To configure this, from the terminal console, you will issue the following
command
echo xfce4-session >~/.xsession
Restart the xrdp service by issuing the following command
sudo service xrdp restart
Test your xrdp connection
At this stage, you should have a basic xrdp working solution. When I say basic, I mean that you can indeed connect to your remote
Ubuntu machine but if you disconnect your session and try to connect again, you will each time open a new session. (Read below section
in this post to see how you can reconnect to the same session)
To test your xrdp solution, find the ip address of your linux machine (or use the name if you have DNS Infrastructure in place). To find
the ip address, issue the command
hostname -I
Now go to your windows machine, start remote Desktop client and enter the ip address/name of your ubuntu machine
You should see then the login screen of xrdp presented to you. Note that, at this screen (and because we have not configured keyboard
layout yet), the keyboard layout is set to English by default.
4/9
4/27/2014
Enter your username and password and Press OK
You will see a dialog box showing the login process
If everything is configured correctly,you should see your xfce desktop loading and you should be able to perform you work through this
desktop environment.
To set Keyboard layout at the xrdp Login screen, perform the following steps
As explained above, with no special configuration, the xrdp login screen keyboard layout is set to english by default. if you
need to change it to another keyboard layout, you should proceed with the following actions
This is the command you should issue in order to change the keyboard layout to be used during xrdp sessions…
Step 1 : You go to the /etc/xrdp directory
5/9
4/27/2014
Step 2 : you issue the command setxkbmap -layout <%your layout%> to define which keyboard map/layout to use
Step 3 : create a copy of the km-0409.ini file into the same directory. It seems that this is the default file used by xrdp to
define the keyboard layout. You will need to use sudo in order to be able to write into the directory
Step 4 : Check that you have a backup of your file by typing the dir or ls command
Step 5 : update the file by issuing the following command sudo xrdp-genkeymap km-0409.ini
Reconnect to the same session throug xrdp
You have mutliple ways to reconnect to the same session through xrdp. we have explained two of them. One method is based on
performing a custom installation and use the X11VNC software. This is one is working well but requires a little bit more effort. (http://cnergy.be/blog/?p=4168)
The other one is to use the xrdp package from ubuntu repository and tweak some configuration files whil connected to the session. This
solution is really a workaround and it’s not our favourite one. (see http://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=4471)
Here, we will use a third method that can be used if you use the xrdp pakcage from the ubuntu repository. This method is much better
than the one provided by us some time ago. In this method, we will tweak the xrdp login screen. We will add a field in the login box
where the user can specify the port to be used when remoting to the ubuntu machine.
You will first need to edit xrdp.ini file located under the /etc/xrdp. To edit the file, issue the following command
sudo gedit /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
You might be prompted for a password. if this is the case, provide the password and Press enter
When the file is open, locate the section [xrdp1] and replace the following line
port=-1
with the line
port=ask-1
Save the file. The file should look like this
When done, restart the xrdp service by issuing the following command
sudo service xrdp restart.
You are done.
When trying to access your Ubuntu machine through via the remote desktop client, you will see that the xrdp login screen has indeed an
additional field called port.
6/9
4/27/2014
If this is your first connection, leave the default value in the port field (i.e. -1), you will be then connecting through xrdp to your ubuntu
machine using a specified port that can be seen on the login process dialog box.
Take a note of this port.
When you need to reconnect, you will have to specify the same port as your first connection and you should see the same screen as you
left it.
Note : This tip has been provided to us by one of our reader (Thank you Wei
)
Final Notes
This is it for this post. Using only the ubuntu xrdp package, we have been able to install and configure a remote access solution. By
tweaking the xrdp.ini file, we even have been able to provide a simple and easy to use solution in order to reconnect to an existing
session.
However, we still have a problem with xrdp used in conjunction with Ubuntu. In order to remote into your ubuntu machine, you have no
other choice than using an alternate desktop environment (in our case its xfce). I find it quite irritating that we cannot have the xrdp
7/9
4/27/2014
package working with Unity or Gnome desktop environment.
We have installed fedora distribution and installed the xrdp package. And guess what ! I can connect through xrdp to fedora and
have the gnome desktop environment working. Moreover, I can disconnect and when reconnecting I will be reconnecting to the existing
session I just left. And all of this with no tweak in configuration files.
I would love to see the same functionality in Ubuntu. As one of our readers mentionned, it might be time for Ubuntu users to
fill in a bug report about xrdp and try to have it fixed. If more and more users complains, maybe Ubuntu team will take the
request into account.
Till next Time
See ya
Tags: reconnect to existing session, Ubuntu, ubuntu 14.04, xfce4, XRDP
Previous topic: Using ADMT to migrate to Windows 2012 Domains
5 Responses to “Ubuntu 14.04 – How to install xrdp in Ubuntu 14.04”
1.
Daniel says:
April 24, 2014 at 12:32 pm
Thank you !
it worked perfectly
2.
Griffon says:
April 24, 2014 at 4:48 pm
Thank you for the visit
have fun with Ubuntu 14.04
Till next time
See ya
3.
Yunus says:
April 25, 2014 at 9:19 am
Typo. On line “sudo gedit /etc/xrdp/xrp.ini”, that should have been “xrdp.ini”
4.
Griffon says:
April 25, 2014 at 9:44 am
Thank for the remark….
We are correcting the typo
Till next time
See ya
5.
Majid says:
April 25, 2014 at 10:43 pm
Thank you so much! This post helped me a lot. Excellent.
Leave a Reply
8/9
4/27/2014
Name (required)
Mail (will not be published) (required)
Website
Submit Comment
Pages
About
Browse Archives
April 2014
April 2014
M T W T F S S
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30
« Mar
Log in
Copyright © 2014 Griffon's IT Library All rights reserved Tuang4 designed by antisocialmediallc.com
9/9

Home Subscribe Divers Linux

Transcription

Similar documents

14.04 LTS - Canonical

slides - Linux Audio Conference

How to print from Ubuntu to SAFECOM In Ubuntu (with the Printers

brevet de technicien supérieur informatique de gestion

Ubuntu Practice and Configuration Post Installation Exercises APRICOT 2008 Taipei, Taiwan

Improve your remote SSH sessions with Byobu

PDF Assembly Instructions Now-Click Here - Port-A-Wall

How to install and configure Webdav ubuntu