Current Version: 0.9.12
xrdp - an open source RDP server
Overview
xrdp provides a graphical login to remote machines using Microsoft
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). xrdp accepts connections from a variety of
RDP clients: FreeRDP, rdesktop, NeutrinoRDP and Microsoft Remote Desktop
Client (for Windows, Mac OS, iOS and Android).
RDP transport is encrypted using TLS by default.
Features
Remote Desktop Access
- Connect to a Linux desktop using RDP from anywhere (requires
xorgxrdp Xorg module) - Reconnect to an existing session
- Session resizing
- RDP/VNC proxy (connect to another RDP/VNC server via xrdp)
Access to Remote Resources
- two-way clipboard transfer (text, bitmap, file)
- audio redirection (requires to build additional modules)
- drive redirection (mount local client drives on remote machine)
Quick Start
Most Linux distributions should distribute the latest release of xrdp in their
repository. You would need xrdp and xorgxrdp packages for the best
experience. It is recommended that xrdp depends on xorgxrdp, so it should
be sufficient to install xrdp. If xorgxrdp is not provided, use Xvnc
server.
xrdp listens on 3389/tcp. Make sure your firewall accepts connection to
3389/tcp from where you want to access.
Ubuntu / Debian
apt install xrdp
RedHat / CentOS / Fedora
On RedHat and CentOS, make sure to enable EPEL packages first.
yum install epel-release
Install xrdp package.
yum install xrdp
yum is being replaced with dnf, so you may need to use dnf instead
of yum in the above commands.
Environment
xrdp primarily targets to GNU/Linux. Tested on x86, x86_64, SPARC and
PowerPC.
xorgxrdp and RemoteFX Codec have special optimization for x86 and x86_64 using
SIMD instructions.
FreeBSD is not a primary target of xrdp. It is working on FreeBSD except
for the drive redirection feature.
Other operating systems such as macOS are not supported so far, but we
welcome your contributions.
Compiling
See also https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/wiki#building-from-sources
Prerequisites
To compile xrdp from the packaged sources, you need basic build tools - a
compiler (gcc or clang) and the make program. Additionally,
you would need openssl-devel, pam-devel, libX11-devel,
libXfixes-devel, libXrandr-devel. More additional software would
be needed depending on your configuration.
To compile xrdp from a checked out git repository, you would additionally
need autoconf, automake, libtool and pkgconfig.
Get the source and build it
If compiling from the packaged source, unpack the tarball and change to the
resulting directory.
If compiling from a checked out repository, please make sure you've got the submodules
cloned too (use git clone --recursive https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp)
Then run following commands to compile and install xrdp:
./bootstrap
./configure
make
sudo make install
If you want to use audio redirection, you need to build and install additional
pulseaudio modules. The build instructions can be found at wiki.
Directory Structure
xrdp
├── common ······ common code
├── docs ········ documentation
├── fontdump ···· font dump for Windows
├── genkeymap ··· keymap generator
├── instfiles ··· installable data file
├── keygen ······ xrdp RSA key pair generator
├── libpainter ·· painter library
├── librfxcodec · RFX codec library
├── libxrdp ····· core RDP protocol implementation
├── m4 ·········· Autoconf macros
├── mc ·········· media center module
├── neutrinordp · RDP client module for proxying RDP connections using NeutrinoRDP
├── pkgconfig ··· pkg-config configuration
├── sesman ······ session manager for xrdp
├── tcutils ····· QT based utility program for thin clients
├── tests ······· tests for the code
├── vnc ········· VNC client module for xrdp
├── vrplayer ···· QT player redirecting video/audio to clients over xrdpvr channel
├── xrdp ········ main server code
├── xrdpapi ····· virtual channel API
├── xrdpvr ······ API for playing media over RDP
└── xup ········· X11rdp and xorgxrdp client module