I would usually have gone for vnc and have used TigerVNC on my Mac - you can even run a VNC server and desktop in a Docker container. I actually learned about xrdp over the weekend whilst trying to help an inlets user connect to his remote lab in Edinburgh from Vienna. There's a couple of screenshots here showing it in action - https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1269639837335904257?s... - inlets PRO is a pure TCP tunnel with TLS encryption https://inlets.dev/
Xrdp: An open source RDP server
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#12Does it support UDP?
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#13Tried to use xrdp on couple clients' machines and gave up at the end after 2 months (Ubuntu was used as host and client). Always had problems starting with keyboard layouts, xdisplays, remmina client, and ending with black screens (https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/1358). Also, it requires a very good connection, if you have sometimes a long ping - your clients would be randomly frozen. The solution only restart sessions on host. Very unstable not only xrdp itself, but xorg, vnc, xdisplays, etc within protocol implementation, at least for Ubuntu.
Even having working it was much slower than on windows stack within same datacenter.
I've recently heard good words about x2go. I didn't know about it earlier. Maybe it could save someone brain cells :)
For myself I decided do not use the RDP protocol on linux clients' machines.
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#14Can someone explain to me how Xrdp is so much simpler to use than VNC? I setup a new CentOS workstation the other day and ended up trying to follow long tutorials with config files and services. I gave up, installed the Xrdp package and seconds later I had a remote session going.
>long tutorials with config files and services
On the server:
x11vnc -display :0 -noxdamage -shared -repeat -forever
ssh -T server 'nc 127.0.0.1 5900'
vncviewer 127.0.0.1:5900Re: Xrdp: An open source RDP server
#15Can someone explain to me how Xrdp is so much simpler to use than VNC? I setup a new CentOS workstation the other day and ended up trying to follow long tutorials with config files and services. I gave up, installed the Xrdp package and seconds later I had a remote session going.
what setup is there to do for VNC ? just run x11vnc and connect to your ip:5900... or directly X11 forwarding
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#16Tried to use xrdp on couple clients' machines and gave up at the end after 2 months (Ubuntu was used as host and client). Always had problems starting with keyboard layouts, xdisplays, remmina client, and ending with black screens ( https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/1358 ). Also, it requires a very good connection, if you have sometimes a long ping - your clients would be randomly frozen. The solution only…
Maybe Spice is the answer. It works good on VMs.
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#17xrdp is nice but i prefer rdesktop since it's more established
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#18Xrdp has been buggy for me as an RDP server... but... it's been a godsend as a VNC proxy.
The student computers at my lab run Windows and do not allow user's to install software or run foreign executables. They have great monitors though. I use an RDP instance to access my VNC linux boxes remotely.
Windows 7 and Windows 10 come with a built-in RDP client.
Also, VNC is pretty insecure. So I only listen on localhost, then connect via RDP for authentication.
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#19Tried to use xrdp on couple clients' machines and gave up at the end after 2 months (Ubuntu was used as host and client). Always had problems starting with keyboard layouts, xdisplays, remmina client, and ending with black screens ( https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/1358 ). Also, it requires a very good connection, if you have sometimes a long ping - your clients would be randomly frozen. The solution only…
Maybe Spice is the answer. It works good on VMs.
I wish Spice worked better. Right now I'm running my workstation on a server KVM instance. Spice too laggy for me. VNC works great.
Although, I leave a connected tty backgrounded with Spice -- the audio works seamlessly. Small bits of lag, but I use it for spotify in the background.
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#20I use RDP multiple times every day. I have tested Linux RDP server implementations and they are very buggy and really not production ready only NX kinda is (yet not as good as MS RDP). VNC is so bad and lacks so many features that it's not even considered a competition - it's old insecure slow protocol that should be forgotten by now.