[CentOS] RDP for Centos 7

Jon LaBadie jcu at labadie.us
Thu Jun 22 17:32:28 UTC 2017


On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 01:13:54PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 05:48:57PM +0100, Rehabilitation Village Farms Coop wrote:
> > Pls can someone tell me how to setup rdp and how it is used. Is there any
> > step by step guide. Thank you
> 

IIRC, there could be a "Windows Version Catch".  I think RDP requires the
"terminal services" feature of Windows that is not available in the commonly
installed "Home" version.  Long ago I began to routinely upgrade to the
"Pro" version just for this feature but have not checked recently.

Jon


> There's not much to it. It's the remote desktop protocol that you use to
> access Windows servers.  On Windows you open port 3387 or allow RDP in some
> other way. (I do almost no Windows, so I don't remember exactly, but I
> think on servers, there's something in the Windows firewall that you can
> allow.)
> 
> You then install freerdp. There are other things that will work, but this
> is keeping it simple.
> 
> This site gives a brief explanation.
> 
> https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_7&p=x&f=5
> 
> 
> You should be able to google for something like use CentOS-6 (or 7) connect
> to Windows RDP and find various tutorials.
> 
> 
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