Ubuntu 14.x and xRDP

Great Guide man very detailed as usual. this kind of stuff is what keeps making come back to your site. BTW im guessing you arr from NED if so Congrats man one of the greatest soccer teams. Love how they play. anyway by using this guide i was able to understand the whole concept of remote session vs vnc. I’ve been using vnc for a while but now that is about to change thanks to this awesome guide. ok just a lil note once i tried this i started looking for something a lil bit more native that a RDP port on ubuntu and i came accross this awesome project called X2GO great project should check it out man. Again thanks for all this great information you post on your site. keep up the good work

willy

Excellent solution, thank you!   I’d already installed xfce4 but xrdp was still displaying wrongly, the change that worked was to add ‘startxfce4’ to startwm.sh.  This is the first site I’ve come across that displays the working content of startwm.

Dave Booth

Thanks Hans, this is really great! Everything’s working fine. A small remark: there’s a typo error in the filename of the startup file for xRDP: you missed the ‘t’ in startwm.sh, but that’s peanuts.

John Leenen

thank you very much clear, easy and so usefull

julienb

thank you very much for posting. Solved my problem!

Hector

unable to start xrdp application in ubuntu14.04

Pra sin

Thanks for all relevant details in easy steps …..!!!

It works for me :)

Sanket Atre

when i try to open a programe it opens in my old desktop not the one that is showing on the connected computer

any idea how to fix this

ben

Thanks for the tut. only one small detail you have to use Sudo again for editing the config file. Otherwise you cant save the file. This tut works for Peppermint and other ubuntu based os too. 

dank je nogmaals voor de tut..heb een tijd gezocht voor een goed oplossing! :)

Morholt

Thanks for the guidelines. One more questions though: how do I connect from a Windows client to the session I already have running on the Linux desktop? I have found many posts about reconnecting to the same remote session, however, that is still different from the desktop session I leave behind. How do I tap into that one? I need an experience similar to the remote desktop behavior between two Windows machines. I need to connect to the Linux box (which is  Xubuntu 14.04) and land on the session I left behind when working directly at the desk.

I searched for this a lot, I read this post twice, still have the question ..  

If the info is here and I missed it (twice) I promise 10 push-ups for each reply that rubs my nose in the explanation  

Thanks !!

Radu

xRDP question:  Anyone know, by default, the max number of unique concurrent session using xRDP?

I’m finding this question more elusive than expected.  Thanks  -Bob

Bobonsnow

Hi guys, 

I do all the steps in the guide but i’m still not able to connect to my Ubuntu through Win7 using -mstsc.exe- (both machines it the same lan).

Btw, what if i want to connect from outside the local network?

Thanks in advance!

This is my startwm.sh file:

#!/bin/sh
if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then
  . /etc/default/locale
  export LANG LANGUAGE
fi
startxfce4
. /etc/X11/Xsession

Alejandro

Followed ur steps, only thing I had to do was reboot server, rdp window would connect, but blank screen, after reboot, was good to go.  thank you

Mike

Hi sir\madam,

 am salman i need some clarification about windows remote desktop and xRDP function.And xRDP how its working based on ip address or system name.

by 

salman

salman

Thank you for this nice guide :)

Alex

Worked first try… Best I’ve ever seen RDP work on Ubuntu!!!

SAnthony

Thanks for this guide, but I spent extra 5 minutes realizing that login name can’t be ‘ubuntu’ since it is configured to be NOPASSWORD. For RDP into ec2 ubuntu instance, we need to create another user:

sudo adduser xxx // add user xxx and some detail data will be prompted to answer
sudo adduser xxx sudo // add xxx into sudo group

Paul

Thank you for the guide…it was very concise and helpful.

JustinB

Thanks for this! Everything worked perfectly on the first go with four easy steps, almost. Two minutes. Three things I saw, YMMV…

1) Connecting with just 8bpp (256 colors) generates a completely unusable, skewed display. Not just ugly. Unreadable. It looks like a monitor with the wrong frequency. 16, 24, and 32bpp all work fine, just not 8bpp. I almost jumped to the conclusion things weren’t working. I just had to reconnect with a higher color depth. I suppose this depends on video settings, etc, on the host.

2) The default colors for the terminals were a black cursor, and lots of black text, on a black background. I first thought my terminal wasn’t working, until I changed the color scheme. No big deal, because I first tested Chrome and Thunderbird which worked fine so I figured it was something easy. Again, probably dependent on my host’s environment.

3) Shutdown and restart from the drop-down menu don’t work. Both just log me out and disconnect me. I have to do a sudo shutdown -[h|r] 0 from the terminal. Permissions problem?

justen

Hi Sir,

This article really save a lot of time to me to study and surf web page to figure out how to use remote desktop to control my ubuntu 14.04 from Windows 7.

Thanks a lot and happy new year!

yukc

yukc

Hans…awesome job.  I have just one question.  I am trying to control my existing programs that are running on my Kubuntu 14 server.  When I RDP into my linux box from my windows box I am not seeing the existing programs that are running on the linux box.  It just seems to give me a desktop in which I could start something new.  I know that when I RDP into my windows box from work I can see all the programs that are running on my home box.  Any suggestions.  ( I loaded the Kubuntu desktop onto my Ubuntu 14 server. ) Thanks man!!  Bring back RUUUUUUD!  ;)  Andrew

Andrew

Great job on detailed instructions. Tried like 1 year ago vino, x11vnc server, vnc4server and couldn’t get performance as with windows mtsc or using teamviewer, so I gaved up. Now with xrdp I can really make use of low end computers to log into more powerful one with great performance. For some reason I had a time out issue when inactivity, but overcomed by installing a stopwatch a letting it run while all the session. I’m going to read a little more and will try to change some settings to see if session time out go away. Also I did tried to enable local sound but didn’t worked.

Thanks for sharing.

Fran

[…] Using Windows RDP to Access your Ubuntu Instance How to use xRDP for remote access to Ubuntu 14.04 […]

Thanks it is realy cool

direse

Thanks for the guide!

Mike

Thank you for the guide. it helped me in connecting from windows 7 Enterprise version to ubuntu 14.04

Ravi Masadi

thanks it’s works perfectly on aws Ubuntu instance 

sandeep

Thank you very much. Exactly what i need. Everything works like it is described in the guide

Rafayel

Thank You. This works fine.

Sohil Jain

thanks for this guide

i’m a neww be on ubuntu’s world. and need your help!

I’m now able to access my ubuntu desktoo via RDP but I’m not able to install updates or manage the network connections, etc… For installation i’m not becoming autherntication window for my username.

Even into a terminal window in this rdp session i’m not able to execute cmds

what should i do to get authentication message?

Thx a lot

matrix

hi Hans,

thank you for reply. I’ve tried your suggestion but without success

matrix

Hi Hans,

There are not enough ways to appreciate my gratitude to your wonderful guide.

There are so many ways and alternatives to set up access to Ubuntu such as vnc4server, tightvnc and so on, but your guide was DA BOMB!

works perfectly and with such little amount of digging and adapting the tool to the host OS using various scripts and settings and even when getting access – it comes with tons of bugs where as your solution works perfectly and smoothly with in minutes!

keep up the good work,

Lior

Lior

Just a quick note of thanks – really needed to get another user connected to my computer today and, under the gun, found this excellent tutorial. Really superb work.

Matthew

Matthew

Well done!   Works a charm under Win8.1 Pro.

Nick

Thanks. Works like Charm

Uma

Thanks for this guide – even a Linux noob like me got it!

Luke

Thanks for the help Its working 

Manohar

Wionderful, easy to follow and worked fine, much easier that whay I have doen on a fedora box

 However, it seems that I can not copy/paste between windows and my ubuntu RDP session, any idea on how to make this possible?

2nd, in xfce4, we don’t have the usual terminal , instead there is Xterm and UIterm which are not configurable / customized easily.

So many thanks again for you detailed and useful information

Salam

FWIW, it seems to work fine with Ubuntu 15.04 (just released 4/23/2015). It works for me, anyway, with 15.04 as a server and 14.04LTS as the client. No promises.

justen

Hi I have a question maybe you can answer me.

the script /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh  execute everytime we login with credentials.

So if I use root credentials this script will run as root.

But if I use normal user this script will run as a normal user.

I would like to run a command as a root even when I am running this script as a normal user.

The command runs a vnc video recorder.

The idea is that I do not want that a normal user stop my video recorder vnc.

Any idea how to do it in /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh?

Thanks.

marcos

Thank you very much , it  works like cherry on cake.

Regards,
VK

Vijay Kadadi

Hi Hans,

I am running ubuntu 15.04 in Azure. I followed the guide but when I try to connect I only get a grey screen. Any suggestions?

greetings,

Marko

Hi, Hans.

I must congratulate you on your article. It is really helpful.

One quick coment…

Desktop Manager

Since the current desktop manager of Ubuntu (Unity which runs on Gnome) no longer seems to work with xRDP, an alternative desktop manager needs to be installed.

Unity does NOT runs XWindow. It is its own technology for local machines only.

As such, you cannot do many of the things that you can with X11… Such as desktop sharing. That is why XRDP doesnot and cannot work with it.

Victor Rivarola

Can I keep my old window manager (KDE) and still use XFCE for RDP only.

xRDP erformance is abysmal with Kubuntu 14.04.1

Palibe Presley

Hey Hans, ik had gezien dat je Nederlands was.
Mijn xRDP is zo erg langzaam dat ik niet eens me browser kan openen.
Hoe kan ik dit verhelpen?

Hey Hans, i saw you was Dutch.
Mine xRDP is so slow, i cant even open mine browser,
How kan i repair this?

Tobias

I was coming from Ubuntu Server 14.04 without any Desktop. When i started the remote session icons were missing. This was possible to fix by:

sudo apt-get install gnome-icon-theme-full tango-icon-theme

Thx a lot. It was still quick and very good working instruction,

mdkka

Thanks, mate!

After reading 800 idiot instructions, this is finally the one that really works!
Worked on Lubuntu 15.04

Best regards
Tomo

Tomo

It works also on latest Mint ;)

There are some problems with TAB key in XRDP/XFCE – it does not do Autocomplete (TABcomplete).
To fix this, as a beginning, edit file
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml$ xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml
Look for all Super..Tab and put the value “empty”:

Source:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1771058.html and other sites

Best regards
Tomo

Tomo

Hi there,

I followed you steps and installed and configured xrdp. when I try to logon via remote desktop connection I get following error: xrdp_mm_process_login_response: login failed. How do I fix this error. Please advise.

Thanks,

Ameet

Ameet Guggali

[…] this walkthrough (THANKS!) I was able to get a Remote Desktop Connection working for my […]

This approach has several problems. First and the biggest is every time i close remote desktop connection and reopen I get a new desktop. I cannot continue work on my previous session.

Second typing l key causes the screen to lock. I cant type text.

Third, the enter key does not work. It highlights the current widow. Also Tab does not work.

Forth terminal has only black screen. I cant see text or type.

martin

Hello; 

If you want to install a different desktop environment while using xrdp; I have found the following resources…. 

This is quite well explained… hope this help/interest somebody 

Ubuntu 14.10 – LXQT as alternative Desktop for XRDP

Ubuntu 14.10 – KDE as alternative Desktop for XRDP sessions

Cheerio 

nobody

I have used your guide to setup RDP into ubuntu several times now.  Just getting around to saying thank you for posting this very simple explanation.  Bookmarked for later.  :)

Mr.M

Hi Hans, Great article.

I was running 12.04 and RDP was working great. I then upgraded to 14.04.3 LTS and RDP would start but when I login I would get the grey dotted background with the “X” cursor then RDP would drop so I followed your how-to in the hope that it would:

A. Repair anything that the upgrade broke and;

B. Resolve the issue

However it is still the same. Do you have any suggestions on what I can do next?

Thanks in advance.

Daniel

I must apologise to Justen and Hans……

I looked over step 3 again and saw a problem….

When running:

echo xfce4-session >~/.xsession

I got permission denied, so I did it with sudo, still the same….

aa:/home$ sudo echo xfce4-session >~/.xsession

-bash: /home/daniel/.xsession: Permission denied

So I nano into the file and wrote it out manually and all is good!!!!

Thanks so much for your excellent help!

Daniel

Hi, very good article.  However I still get a black screen, no logon, when I connect using mstsc.

Is VNC (tightvncserver) a pre-requisite for xrdp?

K.Kong

[…] This information was gathered from here and here. […]

Hello Hans;

Lovely lovely article, clear concise and to the point.

I am currently working on my ubuntu setup using xrdp and mate and I would really like to have the sessions resummable in the event that it gets disconnected. I intend to use this setup in a production environment with 200 concurrent remote desktop sessions. Please advise on how to overcome disconnects / idle timeouts and also how to ensure that one can resume a session. Also, will my scenario mean that I have to create a separate user for each remote desktop client? Thanks in advance.

Victor

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Thanks soo much!!  You saved me a bunch of frustration!!  Worked like a charm!

william

When i connect linux(ubuntu) machine remotely om windows (mstsc)

the xRDP windows opens and asks for a password, 

after entering the passwd the following messages are in the Connection log window:

connecting to sesman ip 127.0.01 port 3350

sesman connect ok  (when  port = -1 in xrdp.ini)

started connecting (when i change port = -1 to port =3350 and xrdp restart)

connecting to 127.0.0.1 3350

tcp connected .

remote login halts at this stage. No further process even if i click OK.

Datta

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Great article, here are some edits I would add:

# Install XFCE4 terminal (way better than xterm)
sudo apt-get xfce4-terminal

# Install icon sets
sudo apt-get install gnome-icon-theme-full tango-icon-theme

If you don’t install the icon sets then Thunar will not display icons and you can’t change the theme.

Neal

Million Thanks !!! worked like charm. 

Arti

[…] These instructions from Tweaking4All worked perfect for me! Hope this helps you too… […]

Hi

with the instructions given above I am able to remotely login my machine but the whole screen is completely blurred nothing is clear.what might be the reason?any idea

aditi gupta

sudo apt-get xfce4-terminal

shouldn’t that read

sudo apt-get install xfce4-terminal

Robert

Great guide , got this up and running in under 10 minutes on Ubuntu 15.10  ! worked first time!

Steve G

Still great info. many thanks

Do you have any insight as to why XFCE can’t be replaced with LXDE? I’ve been trying for some time and have started posting in forums. Has LXDE been orphaned like Gnome (with respect to xRDP)?

TerryMcP

I have trouble with RDP session:

Unable to connect to RDP server 127.0.0.1

I use Remmina as client side and Ubuntu 14 on the server side

service started – checked with service xrdp status

ports open – checked with sudo netstat -nlpt | grep xrdp

nmap said that:

3389/tcp open ms-wbt-server

But Remmina could not connect.

Alex

I found RDP and VNC way too slow for my needs.

For something more akin to the TeamVieweresque experience with a remote XFCE, do yourself a favour and give x2go a try.

https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-x2goserver-on-ubuntu-14.04-as-vnc-alternative

Jim

Worked great for me! Thanks a lot. Very usable for my remote machines on cloud. 

Boris

Hi.

I can remote desktop from windows10 but i don’t use command line on terminal emulator.

Please, Could you help me?

Thank you!

Guiminam

Thanks for the wonderfull tutorial.

I have a question. My connection seems to be too low for the RDP.

When I access it, it takes hell lot of time to render the desktop.

Is there anything so that I cam lower the resolution or something, so it will be loading fast.

Thanks :)

Harshit Peer

Thank you very much, Its really awesome. Now I want one more help that is I have to see only that desktop working, menace Can I see Ubuntu user screen during its working for security reason, If yes then please help me. (In ubuntu I used remmina for desktop sharing. But is there any software for windows so using that I can share ubuntu desktop)

Rahul

Hi
I always install with those commands Xfce on my online ubuntu vps but this time is not working in google cloud, I dont know why can someone help me!
when i try to use this command echo xfce4-session >~/.xsession it showing me this message: Source: Tweaking4All.com – How to use xRDP for remote access to Ubuntu 14.04 (//www.tweaking4all.com/software/linux-software/use-xrdp-remote-access-ubuntu-14-04/)

can someone pls help me how to fix this!?

Jimmy

HI,

I am remotely accessing (on network) my ubuntu 14.04 through windows system. However, during login it asks for port and on giving same port helps me in resuming my session on ubuntu. 

My question is how many sessions I can run simultaneously.  I have a machine with large resources and want to give it to different people to work on it simultaneously.

Ankit

It works for me as well, thanks a lot!

lingyan

i use xRDP in my ubuntu but always startup ubuntu ask password autentification…
sorry about my english..
not good…

ahmad

Heya, 

Thanks for making this super simple and easy to follow but I am having an issue where my RDP connection to my VMware ubuntu server is really slow refresh rates. When I scroll I can see the pages being rendered, when I move windows around i can see the same thing, is there a way to tweak this?

Andrew

I have a Windows 2012 R2 domain using Windows 7 machines for the clients. I have also an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS PC which I use for file transferring. So I installed XRDP and XFCE4 in order to access remotely my Ubuntu from a Windows PC. The problem is that I cant find the “Connect to Server” option when I access remotely the Ubuntu . Only the “Browse Network” appears in the File Manager. On my Ubuntu I use to Connect on my 5 servers and transfer files to each other using the Connect to Server option. Using XRDP the layout and the interface is different and I cant find the option. I made a search for this problem but there is not any similar post..

In addition i would like to know why in other tutorials the change the ports … 

Please help me guys…

Lenos

Just found this tip, not sure if it might be helpful to anyone (source):

I am running into another issue where the XRDP is not working. I have been at it for quite some time now and I think that I need help. I believe that it is an issue of the Ubuntu machine not listening on a port.

However, when I go to rdp from windows, I am able to connect and type in username and password but when I do, I get the following error:

Connecting to sesman IP 127.0.0.1 port 3350
sesman connect ok
sending login info to session manager, please wait...
srdp_mm_process_login_response:login successful for display
started connecting
connecting to 127.0.0.1 5910
error-problem connecting

Could the issue be that my Ubuntu machine is not listening to port 5910? WHat do you guys think?
If so, how can I make sure that Ubuntu is listening to port 5910?

Ok, so when I run this command:

sudo netstat -peant | grep ":5910"

Nothing comes up. When I run this command: 

sudo netstat -peant | grep "127.0.0.1" 

and I scroll through, I do not see anything connected to port 5910. I believe that i have found a large issue. My question now is how do I set up xrdp to listen to port 5910?

Ok, so i found the command that will solve my issue. Run this command to remove the error

Run gsettings set org.gnome.Vino require-encryption false

I hope this could be useful to someone – I have not tried or tested this.

hans

Thanks very much for this.  Having an odd problem – it connects OK, but when I go to open things (such as a web browser) on the remote desktop, it doesn’t seem to do anything on the remote end, but will actually open them on the local end.  Another words, picture two monitors side by side – click open on the windows screen, and it appears on the Linux screen but not the windows screen.  Also, the desktop looks entirely different from what’s seen on the Linux screen.  

Remoting from a WIndows 7 box to a Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS box.  

Mark

Hi,

How can i find my ubantu username?

Jigneshkumar Aakoliya

Install ubuntu desktop 16.04

im getting following error: xrdp_mm_process_login_response: login failed. How do I fix this error.

Please advise.

Nathan

Hi Hans,

When I connect to the target server from RDP on my mac, it comes up with a grey screen and the cursor is a large X. I’ve tried rebooting the server and it still does the same thing.

Any hints on what could be the problem? Username and PW are all correct, the server is a virtual machine if that helps. 

Caleb

Worked great with Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10. Thanks!!

Dave

I have this working fine with Ubuntu 16.04.2LTS on three machines (had it working with 14.04LTS and 15.04 too). I sort of know what I am doing. ;) I migrated one machine to 17.04 (clean install). I repeated the install/setup procedure for xrdp/xfce4. No errors. However, when I connect to the machine, I just get a black screen. No login info. Basically, it is broken.

Logging in via ssh, and doing a ps -ef | grep xrdp shows it is running… when I connect via remote desktop from my Win10 box, I see a new instance of xrdp exists, but I’m not seeing it. Just black. I’ve tried both 16 and 32bpp, various screen sizes, experience settings, etc. I’m using the same client that works with 16.04.2LTS and it doesn’t work with 17.04.

Anybody have any ideas? Any caveats with 17.04 vs earlier versions?

justen

I tried a re-install, that didn’t work. So…

After nuking the OS and re-installing, my problem system now works fine. I wish I knew what was wrong, and what a clean re-install fixed. I can say that now, twice, I have followed the instructions on this page and it has worked with Ubuntu 17.04, when I did it immediately after the clean installation. One time it failed. I don’t know why. FWIW, both 17.04 installs were on an SSD alongside of Windows 10 Creators Update. 64-bit. Not UEFI, I’m using legacy BIOS (I’ve got some old system that don’t support UEFI).

Wish I could be more helpful for others that will probably encounter the same problem… all I can say is get this (xrdp/xfce4) procedure working ASAP, before installing other crap. Not sure if it matters, but for me… Install new OS, install byobu, apt-get update/upgrade/dist-upgrade, then do the above procedure for xrdp/xfce. Reboot. At this point I connected, and it worked. Re-installed all my other apps, and it still works.

As an engineer, I HATE not knowing the root cause for a problem, but the weather is too nice to spend time inside trying to debug stuff outside of my area of expertise. I am gonna sit by the pool and drink margaritas, and get sunburned.

justen

great and simple to understand tnX man

amin

Hi,

I installed Ubuntu 16.04 GNOME in HP Gen9 server and tried to login using RDP client from windows7. i followed the steps mentioned in this site and when i tried login im getting error after tcp connection established with 5910 password validation success and sending share flags, receiving server pixel fomat, name length, name, sending encodings. 

Please suggest if any one faced similar issue.

krishna

Neil was absolutely spot on …I was struggling with accessing without the XFCE4 -terminal . but once installed … magic … thanks

Hikmat

Hi,

thanks solved the problem I was having and did it first time, 

Tom

tom

I upgraded two systems from 17.04 to 17.10. I had to make one simple change to get things to work. I found on another webpage about getting xrdp to work with 17.10.

In /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config change allowed_users=console to allowed_users=anybody

This works the same as before, firing up xfce4. However, 17.10 switches from Unity to Gnome by default, so xfce4 shouldn’t be necessary. I tried simply rolling out some of the changes adding xfce4, but this didn’t work. I think my problem is that since I upgraded from 17.04, I still have Unity installed, so I un-unrolled my changes. ;) I’m hesitant to purge Unity (sudo apt purge unity-session unity; sudo apt autoremove), seeing as I have working systems now. I would think with a clean install of 17.10, all one has to do is install xrdp.

justen

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for the excellent guide, worked great to get my Ubuntu 16.04 visible under Win 7!! I really appreciate your write-up.

One quick question… is the xfce4 desktop only for the remote connections? My server is currently headless so I can’t look for myself but I like the Unity desktop when I have to do extensive work on it. xfce4 is fine for remoting in but I want to keep Unity as the local desktop. Does this change both? If it does, is it possible to have xfce4 only for the remote connection?

Thanks

Hank

Hank

Morning!

I’ve used your tutorial several times to set up RDP to Ubuntu machines, and never had an issue.  However, this last time, it just won’t work.  I can ping the Ubuntu machine and I can ping out from the Ubuntu machine.  RDP from Windows says that it can’t find the Ubuntu machine.  When i run the command xfce4start, Ubuntu claims it’s already running.  Systemctl says that xrdp is running.  Have you run across this before?

Chris

Hi sir.

  I’m work on ubuntu 16.04 x64 and win10 x64 , it’s work fine.

but when I close the windows remote app, and reconnect agagin, I get a now desktop. how to go back last login desktop.

ic520hl

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Hi Hans,
i followed your tutorial, and it work! Great, thank you very much. I’m always able to login without problem.

But today, when i want to login i have following message: “xrdp_mm_process_login_response: login failed”

i’m sure my user/pass is correct, my internet connection is also fine. When i check the service status using:

sudo service xrdp status

the result:

* Checking status of Remote Desktop Protocol server xrdp [ OK ]

* Checking status of RDP Session Manager sesman [fail]

i try to uninstal xrdp and then re-install it again, but it still doesn’t work, the xrdp service is still not running. Please help, do you have any solution to this problem?

jufan

I am new to Lubuntu, I followed the above instructions and all went fine. Except I was stumped for a while on how to edit the startwm.sh file cos of ownership permissions. 

But I found another posting to do a “sudo <editor> <filename>” where “editor” is the app you want to edit the text with = leafpad, and filename is = /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh

After that everything went well.

I am using LUBUNTU 16.04 now, since these above steps did not work with LUBUNTU 18.04.

Finaly thanks very much..

Clive Delves

hi! Hans…  

i followed the rules step by step.

but i get some errors, while connecting and i don’t know why. i’, using debian stretch

the error state that:

“sesman connect ok

sending login info to session manager, please wait

login successful for display 10

started connecting

connection problem, giving up

some problem”

is there any why this is not working??, i tried to use different rdp clients, it still like this.

tyty

Hi,

The setup worked and I can log in fine, but nothing populates on my desktop on the remote desktop. I am using Ubuntu 16 and Windows 10. Any suggestions of what to try

Doug Miller

Using xrdp for connecting to a remote Xubuntu system has worked great in 14.04 and 16.04.  It is failing if the ubuntu system is upgraded to 18.04.  I’m getting “VNC error – problem connecting” then another line “some problem”  Any help would be appreciated

Lee

Thank You, worked for me.

pratik

Hi, 

I was using xrdp for a while, Today I met with an error, and i cant figure out. I tried almost everything, but im sure im missing somethng very silly. 

The error is password failed, error – problem connecting. I deleted all x session from /tmp/.x11 and /tmp.

have made max sessions to 10 in the sesman.ini.

Please help.

Nishad Nazar

Hi,

When i am executing below command getting an error.

sudo service xrdp restart

“It looks like xrdp is allready running,

if not delete the xrdp.pid file and try again”

due this error unable to login XRDP. please help on this issue

Mahesh Surwar

Hello All,

I am trying to install xrdp service on ubuntu 16.04 machine, i get the grey blank screen , whenever i do RDP to the machine.

Hemanth

Really helped me thank you!

Aaron

Sir,

Manythanks

I did many search and you’re aonly the one who solve my issue:;

Black screen after login

Champagne

NioloZonelibre

Somewhat of a newbie question here. I haven’t worked much with Linux in the past, so I am trying to edit the .xsession file, but I cannot save the file. I am not sure if there is something I am doing wrong. 

FYI, the source file for .xsession here looks nothing like the code in your steps. 

Albert Bregar

After much frustration with trying to use stock xrdp on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, I have located this post:

https://netdevops.me/2017/installing-xrdp-0.9.1-on-ubuntu-16.04-xenial/

which suggested to add a newer 0.9.1 version of xrdp from ppa:hermlnx/xrdp

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hermlnx/xrdp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xrdp

Having done the above, the remote login was possible to accomplish without any problem.

E 2

I installed XRDP on Ubuntu 18.04, and it worked. But, I cannot open a terminal on remote desktop. If I try to open it, it opened on original computer not remote desktop.

And also if I open some software on remote desktop, such as Chrome browser, It is also opened on Ubuntu 18.04, it is not possible to use the software simultaneously on remote desktop. 

Please help!

sherry

Bro can you help me ..I am facing issue in this.

kapil

Any issues with support for Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS?

Can’t seem to get a session to open.  

I get the logon screen, then enter Username/PW and goes black and terminates.

Here’s what /var/log/xrdp-sesman.log says..  The only error I see is the Bolded-below.   Failed to bind IPV6 and IPV4?

[20201229-14:04:56] [INFO ] shutting down sesman 1
[20201229-14:04:56] [DEBUG] Closed socket 7 (AF_INET6 ::1 port 3350)
[20201229-14:06:45] [DEBUG] libscp initialized
[20201229-14:06:45] [DEBUG] Testing if xrdp-sesman can listen on 127.0.0.1 port 3350.
[20201229-14:06:45] [DEBUG] Closed socket 5 (AF_INET6 ::1 port 3350)
[20201229-14:06:45] [INFO ] starting xrdp-sesman with pid 27306
[20201229-14:06:45] [INFO ] listening to port 3350 on 127.0.0.1
[20201229-14:09:06] [INFO ] A connection received from ::1 port 39292
[20201229-14:09:06] [INFO ] ++ created session (access granted): username andyj, ip ::ffff:192.168.0.30:27155 - socket: 12
[20201229-14:09:06] [INFO ] starting Xorg session...
[20201229-14:09:06] [DEBUG] Closed socket 9 (AF_INET6 :: port 5910)
[20201229-14:09:06] [ERROR] g_tcp_bind(9, 6010) failed bind IPv6 (errno=98) and IPv4 (errno=22).
[20201229-14:09:07] [DEBUG] Closed socket 9 (AF_INET6 :: port 0)
[20201229-14:09:07] [DEBUG] Closed socket 9 (AF_INET6 :: port 5911)
[20201229-14:09:07] [DEBUG] Closed socket 9 (AF_INET6 :: port 6011)
[20201229-14:09:07] [DEBUG] Closed socket 9 (AF_INET6 :: port 6211)
[20201229-14:09:07] [DEBUG] Closed socket 8 (AF_INET6 ::1 port 3350)
[20201229-14:09:07] [INFO ] calling auth_start_session from pid 29136
[20201229-14:09:07] [DEBUG] Closed socket 7 (AF_INET6 ::1 port 3350)
[20201229-14:09:07] [DEBUG] Closed socket 8 (AF_INET6 ::1 port 3350)
[20201229-14:09:07] [INFO ] /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg :11 -auth .Xauthority -config xrdp/xorg.conf -noreset -nolisten tcp -logfile .xorgxrdp.%s.log
[20201229-14:09:07] [CORE ] waiting for window manager (pid 29140) to exit
[20201229-14:09:09] [CORE ] window manager (pid 29140) did exit, cleaning up session
[20201229-14:09:09] [INFO ] calling auth_stop_session and auth_end from pid 29136
[20201229-14:09:09] [DEBUG] cleanup_sockets:
[20201229-14:09:10] [DEBUG] cleanup_sockets: deleting /run/xrdp/sockdir/xrdp_chansrv_audio_out_socket_11
[20201229-14:09:10] [DEBUG] cleanup_sockets: deleting /run/xrdp/sockdir/xrdp_chansrv_audio_in_socket_11
[20201229-14:09:10] [DEBUG] cleanup_sockets: deleting /run/xrdp/sockdir/xrdpapi_11
[20201229-14:09:10] [INFO ] ++ terminated session:  username andyj, display :11.0, session_pid 29136, ip ::ffff:192.168.0.30:27155 - socket: 12

Andyj