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1. Ubuntu remote desktop connection hangs connecting how to#
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We used different external ports to direct the traffic to different machines.

Ubuntu remote desktop connection hangs connecting windows#

Use port forwarding on the firewall to direct the rdp traffic to the windows machine. It says 'connecting to home.' with 'Initializing display parameters', then the screen just minimizes with no error messages. I have a Ubuntu 20.04 computer and recently have been unable to connect to the computer. Your talk of port numbers reminded me of another way of doing this. Cannot connect to Ubuntu 20.04 computer, hangs on 'connecting.' FGlance Posts: 1 Newbie. I use IPCop and have played with it's inbuilt vpn functionality and openvpn addon. Perhaps not kosher on the ubuntu list, but you could try using a purpose built firewall that supports openvpn. You won't need the port number except to open the port in your firewall - will the linux box be the firewall as well? Would be inconvenient, but less work to set up.Yes, if you have a static external ip then you don't need dyndns, just that ip. And I wonder, if rather setting up an FQDN, I can just use the external IP address ort number. And I assume you use Gnome RDP because you're connecting from a Linux box-same concept though, I bet, connecting from an XP box. I might need a DNS server as well.Īh, so you've more or less done what I've described, except that you've not set it up yourself? Cool, sounds doable then. I'm not sure how the FQDN would even be set up.

Ubuntu remote desktop connection hangs connecting how to#

Does this sound remotely feasible? Any suggestions on how to do it more easily? I do not have any kind of Windows Server software and I do not intend to get it.ġ) set up OpenVPN for Ubuntu, & insure that the XP Pro machine is accessible from the internet (whatever that entails, using various guides available)Ģ) Run Remote Desktop Connection from outside the home LAN, using the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the XP Pro Machine

My idea is to setup OpenVPN on the Ubuntu machine, and use that as the externally visible server with which I can pass through to the XP pro machine. My goal with this little project is to be able to use Remote Desktop Connection from an XP machine at some other location (ie school, work) to connect through the internet and log into my own XP Pro machine at home, as if I were there, so that (partly) I can run my own software. your computer can't connect to the remote computer because the remote desktop gateway.:Hi,I am getting the error above when trying to RDP to one of our servers.The RDP works for 2 other. Hi, I have Ubuntu and Windows XP Pro running on two machines at home.