On 7 January 2017 at 22:35, John Moser <john.r.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As per bug 220005 > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xrdp/+bug/220005 > > xrdp doesn't work. It used to build X11rdp by patching Xorg to write to > an RDP session, but this no longer builds and doesn't get installed. > > Fundamentally, xrdp-sesman runs a command with some arguments. It has a > configuration section in /etc/xrdp/sesman.ini like so: > > [X11rdp] > param1=-bs > param2=-ac > param3=-nolisten > param4=tcp > > Thus any X11 service can stand in. > > Weston typically comes with weston-rdp, although this isn't built in > Ubuntu. This is an RDP compositor, and listens on a port for an RDP > connection. Stacking Wayland-X on top of this would immediately give an > xrdp replacement. > > As a possible forward direction, Ubuntu could: > > - Provide weston-rdp; > - Provide an X11rdp which runs weston-rdp to host Wayland-X; > - promote the necessary pieces to main; > - provide a default configuration which listens on 3389 (RDP) and > automatically starts an X11rdp session with a Display Manager (lightdm, > gdm, etc.). > > This would allow a user to install xrdp and immediately have a system > which gives a login screen on the RDP port. No VNC, no logging in with > xrdp's ugly session manager; instead we would get the same functionality as > Windows servers, using the same protocol. > > Even servers without a console display manager could allow login through > RDP in this way. > > Obviously, this doesn't immediately provide advanced options like > disconnecting from the RDP session and leaving it running, reconnecting to > the same session (by logging in as the same user), sharing the session, or > accessing the existing console session. I believe all of the pieces to > provide basic remote RDP access are there, however; advanced functionality > will require more code. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > > +1000 for that! I really want to see this smooth RDP integration on Ubuntu! Sounds awesome! Do you have some workaround for this problem? Maybe manually doing some changes? Cheers! Thiago
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