19 thoughts on “XRDP – Frequently Asked Questions”

1. Thank you for this FAQ! I’m still having trouble getting xrdp to work on Ubuntu 15.04, unfortunately. The service is running and active. However, when I try to connect using Windows RDC, I see the Windows connection window briefly and then it just disappears. It doesn’t even appear to try to connect. I feel like this started when I switched my Ubuntu machine over to a static IP address. Is it possible there’s something in my static IP configuration that’s causing an issue? Do I need to specify that IP address somewhere in the xrdp configuration? I have the RDP port (3389) appropriately forwarded on my router, and I can connect to the computer’s shared files over the LAN and connect to the internet from it. I looked in the three log files recommended above and see nothing related to current connection attempts. Do you have any ideas on what the issue could be?

2. Hello Captain, 🙂

   The fact that you are using a Fixed ip should be a problem. the ip address is only the entry point…..for xrdp….
   Did you upgrade your ubuntu 14.xx to ubuntu 15.04 ? or you have done a standard installation procedure on your ubuntu 15.04 for xrdp (Possibly review this post)

   is the fixed ip address specified in your router for port forwarding on port 3389 or are you still using the old one or did you specify a specific subnet ?

   seems to be more a router/networking configuration issue… To validate this, try to install a windows machine on the same subnet as the xrdp server and try to perform xrdp. If this is working, problems lies somewhere else (network)

   Hope this help
   Till next time
   See ya

3. I figured out the problem(s). There were actually quite a few. First off, I had copy/pasted the custom install script, which caused issues because of the font-formatting of the quotes (the sed commands were failing). Once I manually fixed those issues, it got a bit further. Then, I realized my rsakeys were never getting generated, so I generated them, put them in the right location, and I could finally connect – but the connection was bringing up xterm rather than the Desktop. Then I looked at my startwm.sh and realized it was a broken link, as I have not /etc/X11/Xsession file. So, I found the original version of the file, replaced the “xterm” line with “mate-session” and it finally works. I’m not sure why it’s not using the .xsession file I have in my Home folder though. At any rate, it’s working, so I’m just happy I finally figured it out. That was quite a pain to troubleshoot.

4. Hey Captain,

   Thank you for the feedback… It’s not the first time that the font formatting is causing an issue. I will try to fix that either by providing a download link or by updating the web site design…

   Sorry for the annoyance…

   Thank for sharing all the useful information provided so far. This is how we can move forward ….

   Till next time
   See ya

5. One final question – I’m now able to connect to my Ubuntu 15.04 machine running xrdp with no issues from the Remote Desktop on my Windows machines. However, when trying to connect using the Android RD Client from Microsoft, I get the following error message: “Your session ended because of a protocol error. If this keeps happening, ask your admin or tech support for help. Error code: 0xd06” I don’t know if there’s anything that can be done client side to fix it, but I wanted to mention it and ask just in case there is. It seems this is also a problem on Windows Phone, so it may just be something with the Remote Desktop protocol itself: https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/forums/101801-feature-suggestions/suggestions/6531312-remote-desktop-and-xrdp-clients-error-0xd06

6. Hello Captain,

   I have no clue either as we do not use Windows Phones…..
   The error message reminds me a issue we had with rdp and compression settings used.
   Check if you can adjust the compression settings on your xrdp server (or on your rdp client) and see if this change the rdp experience

   Hope this help
   Till next time
   See ya

7. Captain Throwback, I am getting the same error trying to connect with RDC on android to my XRDP server. Have you had an success with that issue?

8. Read that this error:“Your session ended because of a protocol error. If this keeps happening, ask your admin or tech support for help. Error code: 0xd06” happens when connecting to a WIndows 2008 or higher server due to compression on server side being set too high for the client. Maybe changing the compression settings if possible on XRDP server would resolve this issue.

9. Hello Kirk,

   As mentioned, we have never tested xrdp from rapsberry or android devices (so far…might come soon). This error looks like the one described here

   So compression might be your issue, check on the xrdp server if you can change the compression level (something like crypt_level). Check on the android client if you can change compression settings as well

   Hope this help
   Please provide feedback if you find out more about this…we will then possibly publish something as well to help out other people with the same issue

   Till next time
   See ya

10. Question 18 – When I connect to xrdp, I receive an error message similar to …only supporting 8,15,16,24 bpp rdp connections. What does that means ?

    For Windows 10, Search Google and get Remote Desktop Connection Manager 2.7. Run this and you can connect with 32 depth color without having to make any changes. You could also get it thru their store but if you’re like me you have dumped all the MS bloatware.
    For Fedora 23
    yum (or dnf) install xrdp
    systemctl enable xrdp.service
    systemctl start xrdp.service
    systemctl enable xrdp-sesman.service
    systemctl start xrdp-sesman.service

    If SELinux is running
    chcon –t bin-t /usr/sbin/xrdp
    chcon –t bin_t /usr/sbin/xrdp-sesman
    systemctl reenable xrdp.service
    systemctl start xrdp.service
    systemctl status xrdp.service

    To turn off SELinux
    Edit /etc/selinux/config
    Selinux=disabled

11. Hello There,

    Thank you for the visit and the info. We will check this and try to integrate this info in our next posts…

    Till next time
    See ya

12. If you are a Linux user and want to connect to XRDP using RDP the best app in my opinion is xfreerdp which is also under development by neutrinolabs who work on xrdp.

    The freerdp command line interface (CLI) is very easy to use and supports much of microsoft’s rdp:

    https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/wiki/CommandLineInterface

    cut&paste will work from your remote desktop session to your local linux desktop apps, audio works etc.

    Its easy enough to create simple launcher ICONs for your desktop that use FreeRDP by using something like Arronax (http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/arronax/)

    First, use FreeRDP from a terminal to test out your command line connection to the remote Linux Desktop/xrdp. After you get everything working. Copy that command line into the Arronax GUI give it a title that’s meaningful then when you click the little “down arrow” on the menu it will create an appropriate “.desktop” file which you will want put in ~/.local/share/applications. From then on you can connect to that remote system desktop by just clicking on that .desktop icon.

    I use all of this often. I’m also using guacamole installed on remote Ubuntu Machines. On the same machine as Guacamole is installed on I install x11rdp & xrdp and also Ubuntu-Mate desktop. With all that setup I can then from my local machine use an HTML5 browser to connect to quacamole, select the guacamole “connection” for the connection to XRDP on Ubuntu server itself. At that point I see my Mate desktop and am logged in. Its taken a little extra work to get pulseaudio working this way but I have that going now to.

    Anyway… wanted to pass on some info related to what I have been able to do.

13. Hello There,
    We will investigate rdp option in Linux in a few weeks.
    Thank you for the feedback you already provided

    Till next time
    See ya

14. Its giving me an error that unable to locate package xrdp.
    Even if I am online then also

15. HEllo There;

    Please rephrase your question as the one you have submitted is a little bit crypty for us

    Till next time
    See ya

16. Avinash… xrdp is in debian & ubuntu repositories (not sure how old a version it is) if you are using a diff distro you may have to do some searching or googling for your distro

17. If the same user logs in using multiple terminals, all of them get connected to the same session. Here I have “ask = -1” in xrdp.ini.

    How to make each login (same user name) start a new session?

    Also is there a way to make sure that only one user can login in the server at one time.

18. I have centos 6.8 server. I downloaded xrdp-devel (as of August 1st 2016) tree and installed successfully. Everything is working fine except that when the same user logs in from 2 different sessions, the session is shared between both. I have port=-1 in the .ini file.

    I want to put port=ask-1 and have the same user create new sessions each time and not share it unless the port number is specifically given

    Thanks,

19. @Mahesh V,

    XRDP design is to allow a user to reconnect to the same session (by default now), if you want to have the same user connecting to a new session each time, you have to specify a new port each time you make an xrdp connection….but I do not see the point, just create two or more users and have them using their own remote session

    Hope this help
    Till next time

    See ya