{"id":4430,"date":"2014-08-13T06:35:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T06:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bodhost.com\/kb\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:04:31","slug":"remote-desktop-linux-with-rdesktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/kb\/remote-desktop-linux-with-rdesktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Desktop Linux with rdesktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" class=\"wp-image-4431\" src=\"https:\/\/bodhost.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/linux_windows_pc-100275625-orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Today, we will look at a bit of connection and communication between Windows machines. And Linux machines through the desktop (or remote desktop).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This tool makes it possible for the graphical client for Linux (for this tutorial we\u2019ve taken Debian 7) to open a TSE session or Remote Desktop on a client machine or a Windows Server TSE. Here, we will see how simple it is:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Enable Remote Desktop (we are assuming that you are using Windows 8):<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Initially, allow remote desktop connection on your machine. (In the case of another type of Windows edition then enabling a remote desktop connection will be different). Right-click on the Windows icon at the bottom left and then go-to system:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Now, go to \u201cSettings for using Remote Desktop\u201d<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Tick the button \u201cAllow Remote Desktop Connections\u201d and uncheck the box \u201cAllow only the connection from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (recommended)\u201d.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Note: Network Level Authentication (in short NLA) is a specific authentication between two Windows machines. This is a small authentication window that is often encountered when installing a network drive manually by instance. A Linux client does not support this authentication.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Using rdesktop<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>For your information, rdesktop tool is present on most of Linux distributions with a graphical interface, though it is possible to install it if it\u2019s not the case:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">| apt-get install rdesktop\r\n<\/pre>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>To launch it, nothing simpler, enter the following command, if my Windows machine has the IP 10.10.10.10 just for the example:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">| rdesktop 10.10.10.10 \u2013f\r\n<\/pre>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A little trick to exit full-screen mode, you must enter CTRL + ALT + ENTER. Though, this can be risky, because it can directly specify the username and password in the command line with the options u and p that you can select the user without specifying his\/her word Password:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">| rdesktop 10.10.10.10 \u2013u username \u2013p password\r\n<\/pre>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Incoming searches related to Remote Desktop Linux with rdesktop<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>linux rdesktop server<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>linux rdesktop command line options<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>linux rdesktop example<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>linux rdesktop full screen<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>linux rdesktop vista<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>linux rdesktop sound<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>linux rdesktop full screen minimize<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>linux rdesktop send ctrl-alt-delete<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we will look at a bit of connection and communication between Windows machines. 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This tool makes it possible for the graphical client for Linux (for this tutorial we\u2019ve taken Debian 7) to open a TSE session or Remote Desktop on a client machine or a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297],"tags":[592,591],"class_list":["post-4430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq","tag-linux-rdesktop-command-line-options","tag-linux-rdesktop-server"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Remote Desktop Linux with rdesktop<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this article you will learn about Remote Desktop Linux with rdesktop\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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