{"id":3538,"date":"2015-01-23T09:27:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T09:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bachi.net\/?p=3538"},"modified":"2021-01-28T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T09:17:30","slug":"remote-desktop-protocol-rdp-with-ubuntu-and-xrdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bachi.net\/?p=3538","title":{"rendered":"Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) with Ubuntu and XRDP"},"content":{"rendered":"

xrdp – an open-source Remote Desktop Protocol server<\/a>
\ngithub.com\/neutrinolabs\/xrdp<\/a>
\nXrdp<\/a><\/p>\n

Tutorials<\/h1>\n

Using Windows RDP to Access your Ubuntu Instance<\/a>
\nHow to use xRDP for remote access to Ubuntu 14.04<\/a>
\nUbuntu 14.04 \u2013 How to install xrdp in Ubuntu 14.04<\/a><\/p>\n

XRDP \u2013 Quick fix \u2013 Custom XRDP install on Ubuntu 15.04 using systemd<\/a><\/p>\n

\r\n$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop \r\n$ sudo apt-get install xrdp\r\n$ sudo \/etc\/init.d\/xrdp start\r\n$ sudo adduser USERNAME\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n$ service xrdp restart\r\n==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ===\r\nAuthentication is required to manage system services or units.\r\nMultiple identities can be used for authentication:\r\n 1.  Andreas Bachmann,,, (andreas)\r\n 2.  rdpuser\r\nChoose identity to authenticate as (1-2): Failed to restart xrdp.service: Connection timed out\r\n\r\n$ sudo service xrdp restart\r\nA dependency job for xrdp.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details.\r\n\r\n# \/etc\/init.d\/xrdp start\r\n[....] Starting xrdp (via systemctl): xrdp.serviceA dependency job for xrdp.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details.\r\n failed!\r\n\r\n# systemctl enable xrdp-sesman.service\r\nCreated symlink from \/etc\/systemd\/system\/multi-user.target.wants\/xrdp-sesman.service to \/lib\/systemd\/system\/xrdp-sesman.service.\r\n\r\n# systemctl enable xrdp.service\r\nSynchronizing state for xrdp.service with sysvinit using update-rc.d...\r\nExecuting \/usr\/sbin\/update-rc.d xrdp defaults\r\nExecuting \/usr\/sbin\/update-rc.d xrdp enable\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n# cat \/lib\/systemd\/system\/xrdp.service\r\n[Unit]\r\nDescription=xrdp daemon\r\nRequires=xrdp-sesman.service\r\nAfter=syslog.target network.target xrdp-sesman.service\r\n\r\n[Service]\r\nType=forking\r\nPIDFile=\/var\/run\/xrdp.pid\r\nEnvironmentFile=\/etc\/sysconfig\/xrdp\r\nExecStart=\/usr\/sbin\/xrdp $XRDP_OPTIONS\r\nExecStop=\/usr\/sbin\/xrdp $XRDP_OPTIONS --kill\r\n\r\n[Install]\r\nWantedBy=multi-user.target\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n# cat \/lib\/systemd\/system\/xrdp-sesman.service\r\n[Unit]\r\nDescription=xrdp session manager\r\nAfter=syslog.target network.target\r\nStopWhenUnneeded=true\r\n\r\n[Service]\r\nType=forking\r\nPIDFile=\/var\/run\/xrdp-sesman.pid\r\nEnvironmentFile=\/etc\/sysconfig\/xrdp\r\nExecStart=\/usr\/sbin\/xrdp-sesman $SESMAN_OPTIONS\r\nExecStop=\/usr\/sbin\/xrdp-sesman $SESMAN_OPTIONS --kill\r\n\r\n[Install]\r\nWantedBy=multi-user.target\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n### Change in \/lib\/systemd\/system\/xrdp.service and \/lib\/systemd\/system\/xrdp-sesman.service:\r\n### \/etc\/sysconfig\/xrdp -> \/etc\/default\/xrdp\r\n\r\n# service xrdp start\r\nWarning: xrdp.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload units.\r\nA dependency job for xrdp.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details.\r\n\r\n# systemctl daemon-reload\r\n\r\n# service xrdp start\r\n--> Hangs?!\r\n\r\n# \/usr\/sbin\/xrdp\r\n# \/usr\/sbin\/xrdp-sesman\r\n--> Works!\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n# \/usr\/sbin\/xrdp\r\nrunning in daemon mode with no access to pid files, quitting\r\n\r\n# sudo mkdir \/var\/run\/xrdp\r\n# sudo chown xrdp:xrdp \/var\/run\/xrdp\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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