Remote Desktop¶

Configure users to connect to Debian from a Windows machine using Remote Desktop¶

$ sudo apt-get install xrdp
$ sudo apt-get install xfce4
$ apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies gnome-icon-theme
$ echo xfce4-session >~/.xsession

For good measure, it is a good idea to edit the startwm.sh file to ensure that XRDP will always use xfce4

Add the following lines at the end of the file:

$ sudo vim /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh
    . /etc/X11/Xsession
    . /usr/bin/startxfce4

Then using the RDP client from Windows 7, mstsc.exe;

if not works:

$ sudo apt-get install tightvncserver
$ sudo adduser vnc
$ gpasswd -a vnc sudo
$ mkdir /home/vnc
$ chown -R vnc:vnc /home/vnc