Ubuntu – Lost xrdp remote desktop connection Ubuntu Server on Azure from windows

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My problem is similiar to: Blank desktop when logging in via xrdp
But I am also loosing the connection.

I have an Ubuntu 14 Server VM in Microsoft Azure Cloud. And my laptop is Win8 X64.

I am able to access to the VM console via SSH by Putty.

I followed these instructions to make server accesible via mstsc (windows remote):

$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop 
$ sudo apt-get install xrdp

I set an end-point for port 3389.

I can make a remote connection and see the xrdp login window. I chose sesman-Xvnc Module and login with my credentials.

Then see this window:
XRDP-loggin-details-window

And then an empty gray window with a cursor:
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After in a few seconds my connection is lost with no message or something. What could be the reason?

Any help would be appreciated.

Best Answer

possibly an old post but this might be helpful to other.

Unity Desktop is not supported by xRDP software package on Ubuntu You have to install an alternative desktop interface. A good alternative is the mate-desktop

You can install the mate-desktop using the following command

sudo apt-get install mate-core mate-desktop-environment mate-notification-daemon

Then you can install your xrdp package

sudo apt-get install xrdp

Note : On Azure, you will need to create the endpoint in order to access your Ubuntu VM using the xrdp software on the port 3389

There is post that will describe the process of installing xrdp on Ubuntu Server 16.04. Check this link for part I - Part II should be coming soon

Hope this is helpful

Related Solutions

Ubuntu – xrdp setup over ssh

I think that the xrdp.ini parameter that controls the listening interface IP is called 'address' not 'ip' i.e. in the globals section:

[globals]
address=127.0.0.1

At least, this works for me - however note that I am using a source-built xrdp from http://scarygliders.net/x11rdp-o-matic-central-downloads-page/ so I can't guarantee it is supported in the default packaged version.

The closure of the port can be confirmed by running netstat on the remote host, or using nmap i.e. before adding 'address=127.0.0.1' to the [globals] section:

$ sudo nmap -p 3389 192.168.1.16

Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2013-08-05 02:08 UTC
Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.16
Host is up (0.0065s latency).
PORT     STATE SERVICE
3389/tcp open  ms-term-serv

After adding the 'address' parameter and restarting the service

$ sudo nmap -p 3389 192.168.1.16

Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2013-08-05 02:10 UTC
Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.16
Host is up (0.030s latency).
PORT     STATE  SERVICE
3389/tcp closed ms-term-serv

Also note that at least in Windows 7, the native Remote Desktop Connection client appears to have trouble if the remote server is tunneled to localhost:3389 (the default xrdp port), I ended up setting my putty tunnel as

L33389    localhost:3389

and then specifying localhost:33389 in the Remote Desktop Connection dialog (although any suitably high numbered free port should work as well)

Ubuntu – Enable remote desktop on azure ubuntu

Using this solution to rdp in my vm's in AWS and GCE clouds.

To remote desktop your Ubuntu machine, Install xrdp and xfce.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install xrdp && sudo apt-get install xfce4

Configure xrdp:

Create .xsession in home directory.
```
echo xfce4-session >~/.xsession
```
Edit startup file for xrdp (notice that the last line is startxfce4)
```
nano /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh
```
Restart xrdp service
```
sudo service xrdp restart
```

Log in:

RDP to your remote machine and enter your Ubuntu credentials. You will be able to log in.

Note:

By default, each time you login with xrdp , it starts a new session.

To resume your previous session that you are already using:

edit xrdp.ini file,
```
sudo nano /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
```
Search the [xrdp] section for the name sesman-Xvnc. (In my case it's [xrdp1]).

Change port value to ask (default is -1), then save and exit.
Restart xrdp server
```
sudo service xrdp restart
```
RDP to your remote machine. You will see a login screen:
Log in with username, password and enter port as -1(for the first immediate session after xrdp restart).
Note port number allocated carefully.
Next time use this port number to login to resume session.

Source: Use XRDP to Remote-Access Ubuntu 14.04