What do you need RDP for? I did everything i ever needed to do remotely via SSH (I mean this as a genuine question, not that we shouldn’t have better RDP support)
A lot of proprietary engineering software (CAD, MATLAB, etc) or GUI heavy programs have poor or no terminal interface to work with, so the need remote desktop solution is valid
I should be able to use my system wirelessly without having to connect it up. I was running baduk (weiqi/go) simulations on the GPU and I wanted to see live output on the board instead of staring at some SSH’d numbers
I dont know how to mount external drives on Bash without root privilegues. On the Desktop environment it can be done by just clicking without root password.
I can do anything I “need” to via ssh. But I would really like the convenience.
At work they monitor web traffic and block vpns, but they dont block ssh. So I use an ssh tunnel to rdp to my home system so I can easily look something up, navigate to the web interface of one of my self hosted apps, or get a torrent downloading at home.
Setting up vnc is not as easy as it should be. I really wish it as just send auth, if auth create virtual display and perf devices as user that actually sends it to remote client, user sees desktop env loaded.
That’s my biggest issue so far. With RDP I knew I could hook up my cheap Android Tablet on my private network and RDP my way to stuff I forgot to do or I needed urgently. Now I can do similar things with SSH but I still struggle to use VNC without it breaking my gdm, and not even to the full extent I’d wish for.
Give https://remmina.org/ a shot. Solid RDP connection. I have been using it for a few years and works well with my work laptop (windows). I hated the VNC route.
I use rdp on Linux every day. It works as good as windows does. I am confused by this.
Unless you are not using RDP literally, and just mean remote desktop in general. Because RDP is not really a linux thing, even though I use it every day to connect to Windows machines (and the cloud) using a Linux client.
The only issue I have with RDP and linux (and have clients ask about) is the multimonitor support under wayland.
Using RDP clients like Remmina is great. The problem is running a RDP server in linux.
In order to connect you must already be logged in to the remote computer locally and have unlocked your keychain. If the remote computer lost power and rebooted you will not be able to get in unless you have set the computer to login automatically and have set the keychain password to be blank, which is not great for security.
You can not use a different screen resolution in the client than you have setup in the server. This means that using “RD Client” on my Android phone to connect to my desktop computer with a resolution of 1920x1080 doesn’t work. I need to use an alternate RDP client on my phone where a I can specify a custom resolution of 1920x1080. And then the user interface is tiny and does not fill my screen.
It never would have occurred to me to run a RDP server in Linux. It is a proprietary protocol. I would run a different server on a linux machine.
Edit: Thinking back to doing something similar seems like we set up XRDP. I usually just Forward X sessions if I want graphical environments in linux, but I do seem to recall doing it with XRDP too. I think you needed to have a user directory, but they did not have to be logged in.
yes But not in any way that makes it useful. It starts when the user logs into the computer locally. If I was going to do that I wouldn’t need a remote session.
You can set the account to login automatically, but this doesn’t unlock the keychain which is needed to decrypt the user’s RDP password. So you can do it but you need to set your account to login automatically and set your keychain password to be blank.
Remote desktop working like it does in windows.
I love linux and it is really all I use but RDP support is severly worse than windows.
What do you need RDP for? I did everything i ever needed to do remotely via SSH (I mean this as a genuine question, not that we shouldn’t have better RDP support)
A lot of proprietary engineering software (CAD, MATLAB, etc) or GUI heavy programs have poor or no terminal interface to work with, so the need remote desktop solution is valid
I should be able to use my system wirelessly without having to connect it up. I was running baduk (weiqi/go) simulations on the GPU and I wanted to see live output on the board instead of staring at some SSH’d numbers
I dont know how to mount external drives on Bash without root privilegues. On the Desktop environment it can be done by just clicking without root password.
I can do anything I “need” to via ssh. But I would really like the convenience.
At work they monitor web traffic and block vpns, but they dont block ssh. So I use an ssh tunnel to rdp to my home system so I can easily look something up, navigate to the web interface of one of my self hosted apps, or get a torrent downloading at home.
rustdesk it truly awesome.
@FarLine99 @beirdobaggins
It’s great that on the download page they have a scam warning, all remote services should have this.
Agree. When the program became more popular, many scammers appeared who used this software.
Setting up vnc is not as easy as it should be. I really wish it as just send auth, if auth create virtual display and perf devices as user that actually sends it to remote client, user sees desktop env loaded.
I’ve had various VNC systems fail to interoperate. Like you have to use the same server and client.
That’s my biggest issue so far. With RDP I knew I could hook up my cheap Android Tablet on my private network and RDP my way to stuff I forgot to do or I needed urgently. Now I can do similar things with SSH but I still struggle to use VNC without it breaking my
gdm, and not even to the full extent I’d wish for.Give https://remmina.org/ a shot. Solid RDP connection. I have been using it for a few years and works well with my work laptop (windows). I hated the VNC route.
Isnt Remmina a client only? Or can it be configured to autolaunch a VNC/RDP server?
I use Remmina and it is great as a RDP client. But that is not my issue.
The issue is the way RDP is implemented at the server level.
Gotcha, sorry I miss understood what you were looking for.
I use rdp on Linux every day. It works as good as windows does. I am confused by this.
Unless you are not using RDP literally, and just mean remote desktop in general. Because RDP is not really a linux thing, even though I use it every day to connect to Windows machines (and the cloud) using a Linux client.
The only issue I have with RDP and linux (and have clients ask about) is the multimonitor support under wayland.
Using RDP clients like Remmina is great. The problem is running a RDP server in linux.
In order to connect you must already be logged in to the remote computer locally and have unlocked your keychain. If the remote computer lost power and rebooted you will not be able to get in unless you have set the computer to login automatically and have set the keychain password to be blank, which is not great for security.
You can not use a different screen resolution in the client than you have setup in the server. This means that using “RD Client” on my Android phone to connect to my desktop computer with a resolution of 1920x1080 doesn’t work. I need to use an alternate RDP client on my phone where a I can specify a custom resolution of 1920x1080. And then the user interface is tiny and does not fill my screen.
It never would have occurred to me to run a RDP server in Linux. It is a proprietary protocol. I would run a different server on a linux machine.
Edit: Thinking back to doing something similar seems like we set up XRDP. I usually just Forward X sessions if I want graphical environments in linux, but I do seem to recall doing it with XRDP too. I think you needed to have a user directory, but they did not have to be logged in.
Which server are you using on linux? How did you configure autostart?
I use the one built into Gnome but I have run into even more issues trying to install and use other ones.
that one does support autostart?
yes But not in any way that makes it useful. It starts when the user logs into the computer locally. If I was going to do that I wouldn’t need a remote session.
You can set the account to login automatically, but this doesn’t unlock the keychain which is needed to decrypt the user’s RDP password. So you can do it but you need to set your account to login automatically and set your keychain password to be blank.