Install xrdp Remote Desktop to CentOS 6 / RHEL 6

Prerequisites:

Install EPEL repository on CentOS 6.
32 Bit

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

64 Bit

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Installation:

Issue the following command to install xrdp

# yum -y install xrdp tigervnc-server

You will get the following output, make sure you are getting package from the newly created repository.

Installed:   tigervnc-server.x86_64 0:1.1.0-8.el6_5      xrdp.x86_64 0:0.5.0-0.13.el6   Dependency Installed:   libXmu.x86_64 0:1.1.1-2.el6   xorg-x11-fonts-misc.noarch 0:7.2-9.1.el6   xorg-x11-xauth.x86_64 1:1.0.2-7.1.el6

Once it is installed, lets start the xrdp service.

# service xrdp start

xrdp will listen on 3389, lets confirm this by issuing following command.

# netstat -antup | grep xrdp tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:3350              0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      11299/xrdp-sesman tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3389                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      11295/xrdp

By default, services wont auto start after system reboot. Issue the following command to enable the service at system start up.

# chkconfig xrdp on # chkconfig vncserver on

Test:

Now take rdp from any windows machine using Remote Desktop Connection, enter ip address of Linux server in computer field and click on connect.