AnonymousPi Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 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! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousPi Posted September 16, 2020 Author Share Posted September 16, 2020 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGD Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 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? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtmpush18 Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 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! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicstone1412 Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Thank you for your helpful information. I have install successfully on my Orange Pi 3 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Moto Posted September 19, 2021 Share Posted September 19, 2021 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) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobmarcus Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Thanks for this, really saved me a lot of effort. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laconis Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 I also followed this link to enable audio over Xrdp with armbian: https://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=17734 Thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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