Topics: Red Hat / Linux, System Admin

XRDP

XRDP is an Open Source Remote Desktop Protocol server, very similar to what is used on Windows Server systems, but XRDP is meant for Linux. Once installed on Linux, you can set up a RDP (or Remote Desktop Connection) session from a Windows system directly to a Linux system.

Here's how you install and configure it on RHEL or CentOS 7:

First of all, we need to install the EPEL repository and XRDP server: 

# yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
# yum -y install xrdp
Next, we need to start and enable the service: 
# systemctl start xrdp.service 
# systemctl enable xrdp.service
To check if its running, run: 
# netstat -an | grep 3389 
tcp   0    0 0.0.0.0:3389   0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN
That's all. Now you can connect to your server from any Windows machine using RDP.



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