Setting Up Remote Desktop for Linux as a Local Machine

Faculty and staff can set up their Home/Mobile Linux machine to remotely connect to Work/Office via Remote Desktop.

Setting Up the Remmina Remote Desktop

• Officially Supported Client: Remmina

• Compatibility: Tested on CentOS/RHEL/Fedora, but should be compatible with all Linux distros.

• Remmina Installation Guide

Configuring the Remote Desktop

1. Open Remmina.

2. Click New, denoted by the + icon in the top left corner of the page.

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3. Select the Advanced tab.

4. Use the settings shown below:

   • Quality: Best

   • Security: Negotiate

   • Gateway transport type: auto

   • RD Gateway Server: remote.uconn.edu

   • RD Gateway Username: Your NetID

   • RD Gateway Password: Your NetID Password

   • RD Gateway domain: UCONN

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5. Go back to the Basic tab. Use the settings below:

   1. Name: Use a human-friendly name. This can be a label of your choice.

   2. Protocol: RDP

   3. Server: computername.grove.ad.uconn.edu. (Be sure you followed Setting up Remote Desktop on a Remote Computer.)

   4. User name: Your NetID

   5. Password: Your NetID Password

   6. Domain: UCONN

6. Click on Save and Connect.

Alternative: Using the FreeRDP client

• FreeRDP is not an officially supported client.

• The FreeRDP client might perform better than Remmina for some Linux users.

• Compatibility: Tested on Ubuntu 18.04 with X11, but should be compatible with all X11 or Wayland Linux distros.

Installation

FreeRDP can be installed using the package manager for most mainstream distros. Ubuntu users on X11 can install FreeRDP using the command:

 Users using Wayland should install 'freerdp2-wayland'.

Using the FreeRDP Remote Desktop client

FreeRDP is activated and configured from the command line. Use the following command to start the client, replacing the string COMPUTERNAME and the string NETID as appropriate. The command line will prompt you for your password.

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