Tutorial How to enable RDP (xrdp) with Armbian so you can login from a Windows PC

[AnonymousPi]

Hi,

 

There's been a few guides around on how to get RDP working with Armbian so you can login from your Windows or other PC. Some solutions mentioned in various threads here were:

 

• Install tightvncserver instead + x2go bloat (i.e. use VNC)
• Only login as root - didn't seem to make any difference for me
• Change some permissions of a log file in your home directory.

 

Well, this is what I did on my Orange PI PC running Buster desktop with Kernel 5.4, as of April 2020.

 

sudo apt install xrdp xorgxrdp
sudo systemctl enable xrdp
sudo reboot

... and that was it. The missing piece of the puzzel appeared to be the install of xorgxrdp, this isn't installed automatically by 'xrdp' package, and it's useless without it.

 

Update June 2020: Also works with RetroOrangePi 4.3 super quickly (given this is based on Armbian Bionic 18.04). Can RDP in and use Armbian Desktop whilst Kodi plays a 4k movie on the TV from the same device... Awesome!

 

 

[AnonymousPi]

Update, for whatever reason this is broken in Armbian focal, and the issue appears to be due to an Armbian shell script that xrdp doesn't like, so after doing the install, you also need to then do:

sudo mv /etc/profile.d/armbian-check-first-login.sh  /etc/profile.d/armbian-check-first-login.old

And volia, you'll actually get a desktop when you RDP from windows.

[AGD]

I followed your steps in Armbian Focal. It logs in but the desktop is shown is fully garbled. random red and green bits over a grey background. Can you help?

[jtmpush18]

On 4/14/2020 at 2:13 PM, AnonymousPi said:

Hi,

 

There's been a few guides around on how to get RDP working with Armbian so you can login from your Windows or other PC. Some solutions mentioned in various threads here were:

 

• Install tightvncserver instead + x2go bloat (i.e. use VNC)
• Only login as root - didn't seem to make any difference for me
• Change some permissions of a log file in your home directory.

 

Well, this is what I did on my Orange PI PC running Buster desktop with Kernel 5.4, as of April 2020.

 

sudo apt install xrdp xorgxrdp
sudo systemctl enable xrdp
sudo reboot

... and that was it. The missing piece of the puzzel appeared to be the install of xorgxrdp, this isn't installed automatically by 'xrdp' package, and it's useless without it.

 

Update June 2020: Also works with RetroOrangePi 4.3 super quickly (given this is based on Armbian Bionic 18.04). Can RDP in and use Armbian Desktop whilst Kodi plays a 4k movie on the TV from the same device... Awesome!

 

 

This worked for me too!

In Debian 10, with XFCE desktop, on Armbian for a Odroid HC4.

Thank you!

 

[magicstone1412]

Thank you for your helpful information. I have install successfully on my Orange Pi 3

[Willy Moto]

FYI,  in the latest Hirsuite XFCE desktop build of Armbian,  I found that below option is available with  sudo armbian-config

 

Software > RDP

         (Enable remote desktop access from Windows)

 

 

[mobmarcus]

Thanks for this, really saved me a lot of effort.

[laconis]

I also followed this link to enable audio over Xrdp with armbian:

 

https://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=17734 

 

Thanks!