Some of the default installations have a graphic desktop. But, when you use your rPIs headless, what’s the point of these interfaces.
Of course you can remove them, but you can also use remote connections.
And then you have by default VNC, for which you need to start the service first.
But a RDP service, wouldn’t that be usefull, and is it possible ?
Yes it is.
XRDP
It is called xrdp.
xrdp is an open-source remote desktop service for linux. And ues, you can run it on a rPI. To find more inf about xrdp check out their site http://xrdp.org/
Install XRDP
To install xrdp on a rpi run the following steps. (assuming you are running raspion OS
- login to the rPI or with a terminal or via ssh
- update software
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo apt update
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo apt full-upgrade- install xrdp
pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo apt-get install xrdp- start a RDP client and connect to the rPI
And easy as pi 🙂
Purpose
Well, for me it is a stepping stone into my homelab.
I have rPI for running dns,tftp,dhcp,samba,http,ntp, unifi controller services in docker containers.
With this setup I can control my homelab from this stepping stone. And also acces the IPMI interface of my supermicro server, hosting my vSphere homelab.
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