As you may know, GNOME 42 adopted Microsoft RDP protocol for its built-in remote desktop feature. Ubuntu 22.04 Beta previously excluded it because of the bug due to mixed Gnome-control-center and Gnome-remote-desktop versions.
In recent updates, this feature is finally back. Users may now easily remote access to Ubuntu 22.04 desktop with the more secure and MS Windows friendly protocol.
Remote Ubuntu 22.04 desktop from Windows 11
Enable Remote Desktop in Ubuntu 22.04
1. Firstly, open system settings (Gnome Control Center) from the system tray menu.
2. Then navigate to ‘Sharing’ from left, and turn on the toggle icon on right-corner of app header. You can finally click “Remote Desktop” to enable the function and configure user, password, etc.
In my case, the first connection does not work until I re-start the remote-desktop service by running command (press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal):
systemctl --user restart gnome-remote-desktop.service
Connect to Ubuntu 22.04 from Windows 10/11
With RDP protocol, Windows user can simply search for and open the built-in ‘Remote Desktop Connection’ app from start menu.
Then type the computer name or IP address of Ubuntu 22.04 to connect.
In the authentication dialog, make sure the username and password you typed are correct and finally hit Enter to connect.
Connect from another Ubuntu or other Linux PC:
From another Ubuntu/Linux PC, search for and open ‘Remmina‘ (or Connections for Fedora) from the Activities overview screen.
When it opens, select ‘RDP’ and type the IP address to connection.
I am a little confused by this. From my understanding this only works when there is a logged on user. It doesn’t work when no one is logged on. This seems pretty useless in a case of needing to access a computer that no one is sitting in front of.
The gnome-remote-desktop service is running as “
--user“, it could be the issue that user has to be already logged in for it to work.And, it even does not work when screen is locked in my case … So, RDP may be only used for screen sharing or remote troubleshooting
This is first time I’ve probably commented on the web in a decade. So consider yourself lucky :-)
This is a feature, not a bug. Also it’s Gnome not Ubuntu. This is a problem for any remote access to gnome. There are ways to get around it, but the easiest and most secure is to login with user via SSH and port forward from your local machine via encrypted SSH tunnel. Afterwards you can login remotely without issue.
So….
ssh -L 3389:localhost:3389 [email protected]
Once this connection is established, leave it open, and then point your RDP/VNC client to ‘localhost’ in place of remote IP and successfully login remotely.
Freshly installed 22.04, autologin enabled, 3 security updates so far…
and being greeted with an authentication error when trying RDP. The token supplied to the function in invalid
I just tried and get the same error: “The token supplied to the function in invalid”. Did you manage to find a fix?
this is a nice addition to teamviewer, vnc and xrdp.
I like that it doesn’t lock the screen console like usually RDP behaves on windows.
but much slower than teamviewer, significant lag even on two lan machines sitting next to each other