Installing a Remote Desktop capability on Linux is quite easy, this allows administration of the Linux server easily from a Windows machine. This is very useful indeed. The xrdp system installed on Linux will provide this capability. Install it easily.
(base) jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~$ sudo apt install xrdp |
Once it is installed, the xrdp server should be running on the Linux server.
(base) jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~$ ps -ef | grep rdp root 885 1 0 08:37 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/xrdp-sesman xrdp 909 1 0 08:37 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/xrdp root 1071 885 0 08:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/xrdp-sesman jason 1098 1071 0 08:40 ? 00:00:01 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg :10 -auth .Xauthority -config xrdp/xorg.conf -noreset -nolisten tcp -logfile .xorgxrdp.%s.log jason 1107 1071 0 08:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/xrdp-chansrv jason 3139 3020 0 08:54 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto rdp |
The xrdp processes running.
Now you are ready to begin the connection from the Windows computer. I am using Windows 11.
Once the credentials are entered, then the Linux desktop session will open. This is shown below.
This is an example of how useful Linux is and how flexible it is when using it in a mixed environment with Linux and Windows. In the Windows RDP utility, click the display tab and drag the slider to set the RDP resolution and the display colour depth. This is good if you do not want to use the full resolution in the Remote Desktop session.