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what is good remote desktop software? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by abbadon420@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have an old pc on which I run jellyfin and some other stuff. It's only connected through lan. I used to use window's remotedesktop to connect to it, but that stopped working.

Now I'm looking for a good remote desktop. Because it s tucked away in a corner, fysical acces to it is cumbersome.

My server runs mint with xfce. My laptop runs windows 11, because of work reasons.

I'm inclined to use something like anydesk, but I'm unsure how to trust that company.

Edit: I got rustdesk up and running and it's a good solution for my usecase. Thanks for all the tips and suggestions.

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[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

RDP (the same protocol Windows Remote Desktop uses) works fine on Linux. I'd suggest investigating why that suddenly stopped working for you.

For what it's worth Xrdp seems to work well on Linux for enabling a RDP Remote Desktop server.. I suspect you are / were(?) already using Xrdp and just need to figure out why it stopped working.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes I was using xrdp, it is still installed and windows rdp can find it and connect. But once that happens, the applications crashes and shuts down...

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's weird, maybe an update broke something? What I would maybe do is uninstall Xrdp (and maybe remove/rename the old config files just in case), then re-install and configure it. From there if it's still not working try to see what's showing up in the log files maybe.

I did notice that Xrdp requires some extra configuration to work properly with Linux Mint Cinnamon, you apparently need to create a .xsession file in the home folder of whichever user(s) you're trying to remote into. I'm not on Linux Mint myself but maybe searching around will give you some tips e.g. this seems like a good rundown https://gist.github.com/ParkWardRR/2ab9b5d41bbaceca8471d591755a1898

EDIT: You probably already know this from using it before but for RDP on Linux you'd need to remote into a user that is not already logged in.. it's not like in Windows when you can RDP into any user regardless if they're already logged in or not.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For what it's worth Xrdp seems to work well on Linux

Even on Wayland?

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yup, been using Xrdp in a Debian + GNOME Wayland setup without issue.

I've also used GNOME's built in Remote Desktop (RDP) with Wayland. KDE's own RDP should work with Wayland too but I haven't tested that one yet.