Software and/or protocols allowing a user to access the graphical desktop on a system from a remote computer. Common protocols are RDP from Microsoft, and RFB (used by VNC).
Questions tagged [remote-desktop]
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Remote Desktop on the same network
I have a main server set up and staff that use laptops to come into the office and work. We have currently moved everything over onto a server setup in the office that the staff can all remote desktop onto and work on their work. The problem I am…
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Best practice advise asked when users want to work on their workstation and from remote (but on their desktop), on Windows
I've got a work-group of 5 people. All of them have their dedicated machine with Windows 7.
They are all connected to a central server running Windows Server 2008 R2, currently mainly offering the file-server role, one shared data directory for…
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Windows 2k3 and RDP issue over Internet issue (RDP works locally)
I was asked to take a look at a family members' friends' Win2k3 server - Remote Desktop was no longer working, and they were trying to figure out why. This server is running Win2k3 SP2.
I determined that the License services were having some issues…
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Sharing a linux desktop server for multiple users: remote desktop or virtualization?
We are a small web software company (~ 10 people). At present, every dev works on his local machine (some windows, some ubuntu) using a local apache. We have a samba share for shared files and central SVN repositories.
I would like to centralize our…
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Enable Remote Desktop File Transfer
Most of the servers I RDP to support cut-and-paste file transfer (from my Win7 64 machine). One does not, and I can't figure out what configuration step is missing.
I followed the steps outlined…
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Forwarding RDP via a Linux machine using iptables: Not working
I have a Linux machine and a Windows machine behind a router that implements NAT (the diagram might be overkill, but was fun to make):
I am forwarding RDP port (3389) on the router to the Linux machine because I want to audit RDP connections. For…
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Setting up xpra for client use in OS X
I've been trying to get xpra to run on OS X for the last few days to connect to my Ubuntu server. Note that there's a GUI for it called shifter, but that (at least on OS X) is still far too buggy.
For those who don't know what xpra is, if you know…
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RDP with NLA does not work, unless logging in locally first
When connecting to a remote PC, I get this error:
But if I walk to the remote PC, login (with the same credentials) and walk back, RDP suddenly works. This happens each day. The remote PC might be powered off in between (I'll check this in the…
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What makes RDP so great? Is it really faster than connecting to a VM via admin console?
I use VMWare Workstation as my virtualisation application, however, everyone really belives as RDP being the ultimate way to connect to a VM due to speed.
What makes RDP so great? Also, I remember seeing an advert on this site about an RDP…
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Terminal Services Explained
Can someone cleanly delineate the following services/roles for me? I'm lost in the MS TechNet explanations.
Terminal Services Web Access
Terminal Services Gateway
Terminal Services Remote App
What are the pros/cons of each, especially from a…
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Remote Desktop Security
I currently run Remote Desktop on my home computer (Vista Ultimate). It is always on so I can access things from my home computer when I am not there. I have a linksys firewall and use port forwarding to allow access to the correct ports.
How secure…
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Cannot connect to Remote Desktop with Windows Hello PIN
When I try to connect to an intranet machine, it only works if I specify domain credentials. When I use Windows Hello pin, it fails with this message:
An authentication error has occurred (Code: 0x8007013d)
Remote computer:…
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Smart card error from Remote Desktop app
On Windows 10 there are two apps to remotely connect to another computer. One is old Remote Desktop Connection (mstsc.exe) and the other is modern Remote Desktop (RdClient.Windows.exe hidden somewhere in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps). I have my own…
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Use telnet to check that VNC port is open
I am supposed to connect to a Mac VNC/ARD server. Let's say that the Mac VNC server has the hypothetical IP address 8.8.8.8.
I want to check if the Mac VNC server even listens to the default VNC port 5900.
So I ran:
telnet 8.8.8.8 5900
This times…
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Storage of User Profile Disks on file server cluster (SOFS or normal)
We are looking to deploy a new file server cluster, one of the things of which to be stored on it, will be Server 2012 R2 remote desktop User Profile Disks (UPDs).
My question is, is it best practice to store these on a standard file server cluster,…
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