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edoelas

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Registered: 2018-04-27

Posts: 56

I don't know why RDP is not working

Long story short, I am in Taiwan developing my computer engineering thesis and the screen of my laptop is broken. More or less it is usable right now, I just have to press the corner every then and now, but it is getting worse. Buying a laptop here is not as easy as it seems, so meanwhile, I thought to use RDP to be able to work with my machine. I have an iPad and an external keyboard.

I installed xrdp package, enabled xrdp.service and xrdp-sesman.service and edited the file /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc so now looks like my .xinitrc

Then I try to connect with my ipad and this lines appear in the log located at  /var/log/xrdp.log:

[20200427-18:31:50] [INFO ] Socket 12: AF_INET connection received from 10.1.1.2 port 50857
[20200427-18:31:50] [DEBUG] Closed socket 12 (AF_INET 10.1.1.12:3389)
[20200427-18:31:50] [DEBUG] Closed socket 11 (AF_INET 0.0.0.0:3389)
[20200427-18:31:50] [INFO ] Using default X.509 certificate: /etc/xrdp/cert.pem
[20200427-18:31:50] [INFO ] Using default X.509 key file: /etc/xrdp/key.pem
[20200427-18:31:50] [DEBUG] TLSv1.3 enabled
[20200427-18:31:50] [DEBUG] TLSv1.2 enabled

But the Ipad just never asks me for the login information. If I try with rdesktop (from the same computer), it asks me for the login information but once I put it and pres login it just freezes.

Am I doing something wrong during the configuration? Any suggestions?
Thanks.

EDIT:
Is xrdp the best way to do this or is there a better alternative?
Thanks

Last edited by edoelas (2020-04-27 14:40:52)