How to connect to ubuntu 14 desktop from windows 7 over the internet? - linux

im trying to connect to my work pc (ubuntu) from home (win 7) using Remote Desktop Protocol, but i cant't do it. Someone have this setup already running?
Any help would be appreciated :D

Use VNC to connect, tightVnc for windows machine and VNC server for Ubuntu machine, I usually go for that and it's working, just google it a little bit more.

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I would like to programmatically (through node.js) connect to a X11 server running on the localhost installed on Windows to redirect the display of X application running on a remote linux server. For my use case, I'm considering Xming on my localhost but that's not a strong requirement.
I'm usually working on Linux and there I know I can connect either to the socket /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 or to localhost:6000 to trigger some display on my localhost (see for example the code on node.js ssh2 https://github.com/mscdex/ssh2#forward-remote-x11-connections).
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Using XRDP to connect linux to Windows PC from LINUX Client

Has anyone successfully used XRDP/freeRDP to remote login to a Windows PC from a LINUX Client? I did some research on the matter and I found there may be incompatibility issues. However those posts were quite old.
I would like to use the latest XRDP or freeRDP
The site says the following:
"The goal of this project is to provide a fully functional Linux terminal server, capable of accepting connections from rdesktop, freerdp, and Microsoft's own terminal server / remote desktop clients.
Unlike Windows NT/2000/2003/2008/2012 server, xrdp will not display a Windows desktop but an X window desktop to the user.
So it sounds like I can communicate between a Linux Box and Windows. But it sounds like the Windows PC can only be the client logging into a Linux Server and not vice-versa."
Is this true?
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Follow the instruction of freeRDP in the following link:
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/wiki/Compilation
and hope you make it.
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I created an EC2 Amazon Linux instance (yes, an amazon version of linux..)
it is launched but I can't connect using Remote Desktop...
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If you mean Windows RDP (Remote Desktop) that is your problem. Most likely you will need to use an SSH client to connect. I suggest Putty.
You should've received an SSH key when you setup your server. You will need to convert that key using PuttyGEN (same page as the Putty download) to convert it then use it with Putty to access the server.
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http://activeintelligence.org/blog/archive/remote-graphical-linux-desktop-on-ec2/

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