Ubuntu Xrdp installation with Mate Desktop

The process for installation of Mate Desktop along with Xrdp on Ubuntu is as follows:

1. Update Repository

sudo apt update

2. Upgrade Ubuntu

Note: If asked to override PAM configuration, select No (and make

sure to select correct boot drive if requested)

sudo apt upgrade

3. Set iptables rules

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 3389 -j ACCEPT

sudo iptables-save | sudo tee -a /etc/iptables/rules.v4

sudo reboot

4. Install xrdp and Mate Desktop

sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dri fonts-dejavu mate-session-manager \

mate-panel marco caja mate-terminal mate-applet-brisk-menu \

mate-dock-applet mate-indicator-applet mate-indicator-applet-common \

ubuntu-mate-icon-themes mate-applets-common plank \

mate-hud mate-menu mate-applet-appmenu xrdp

5. Set Mate as default environment for Xrdp

sudo sed -i.bak '/fi/a #xrdp multiple users configuration

\n mate-session \n' /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh

6. Start xrdp

sudo systemctl enable xrdp

sudo systemctl stop xrdp

sudo systemctl start xrdp

sudo systemctl status xrdp

7. Login with system user using RDP

Comments

Setting up X11 Access to the Solaris GUI Gnome Desktop

How to access the GUI desktop environment on a Solaris 11 SPARC server from Windows, MAC, Solaris or Linux desktop computer. As most of the time SPARC based servers are installed using the Oracle Solaris 11 Text Installer (installing the solaris-large-server group of software packages), the desktop environment is not installed (mostly to keep the system lightweight) . So the only option for connecting remotely to the server is with an SSH client and a command line interface (Known as Terminal). Most widely used software to connect to a command line is Putty. For beginners , who haven’t worked on any unix/linux system , it takes time to adjust to the commands and syntax of terminals (The so called black screen). Installation Overview To accomplish our task we will follow these three steps: 1. Install the Gnome desktop environment on our SPARC server. Note – If we use the text installation method, the Oracle Solaris Desktop package (solar...

AWK one liners [part one]

AWK was initially developed in 1977 by Alfred Aho , Peter J Wienberger and Brian Kernighan. And hence the name(AWK) derived from their respective initials. AWK was designed basically for text processing and used mostly for extraction a nd manipulation of data. For more info : visit here Lets start with the examples. 1. Print Specific Column from a file sample file created awk '{print $1 " " $3}' abc.txt awk '{print $1 " " $3}' abc.txt 2. Print all data from a table awk '{print $0}' abc.txt

Root Password Recovery Solaris 11

1. Set the auto-boot options to false. ldm set-variable auto-boot\?=false Ldom-name 2. To check the disk resources attached to your ldm ldm list -o disk Ldom-name 3. Check for any existing services on Primary/IO Domain ldm list-services primary 4. You can use the existing one , if any or else create a new one. l dm add-vds primary-cdrom primary 5. Add a vdsdev to the service created in step 4 l dm add-vdsdev options=ro /tmp/sol-11_2-text-sparc.iso cdrom01@primary-cdrom where ro=read-only /tmp/sol-11_2-text-sparc.iso = path of The Solaris 11 iso image 6. Add a virtual disk to the vdsdev created in step 5 l dm add-vdisk cdrom cdrom01@primary-cdrom Ldom-name 7. From the primary domain break into the ldom whose password is to be recovered telnet 0 500x (ldm port number) Trying 0.0.0.0.. Connected to 0 Escape character is '^]' telnet> send break c)ontinue, s)ync, r)eset? Enter r Resetting.. NOTICE: ...

solaris-ville

Search This Blog