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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="rdp-viewers">
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| 4 | <title>Common Third-Party RDP Viewers</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p> Since VRDP is backward-compatible to RDP, you can use any standard RDP viewer to connect to
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| 8 | such a remote virtual machine. For this to work, you must specify the IP address of your
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| 9 | <i>host</i> system, not of the virtual machine, as the server address to connect to. You
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| 10 | must also specify the port number that the VRDP server is using. </p>
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| 11 | <p>
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| 12 | The following examples are for the most common RDP viewers:
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| 13 | </p>
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| 14 | <ul>
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| 15 | <li>
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| 16 | <p>
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| 17 | On Windows, you can use the Microsoft Terminal Services
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| 18 | Connector, <userinput>mstsc.exe</userinput>, that is included
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| 19 | with Windows. Press the Windows key + R, to display the
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| 20 | <b outputclass="bold">Run</b> dialog. Enter
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| 21 | <userinput>mstsc</userinput> to start the program. You can also
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| 22 | find the program in <b outputclass="bold">Start</b>,
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| 23 | <b outputclass="bold">All Programs</b>,
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| 24 | <b outputclass="bold">Accessories</b>,
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| 25 | <b outputclass="bold">Remote Desktop Connection</b>.
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| 26 | If you use the <b outputclass="bold">Run</b> dialog,
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| 27 | you can enter options directly. For example:
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| 28 | </p>
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| 29 | <pre xml:space="preserve">mstsc 1.2.3.4:3389</pre>
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| 30 | <p>
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| 31 | Replace <codeph>1.2.3.4</codeph> with the host IP address,
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| 32 | and <codeph>3389</codeph> with a different port, if
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| 33 | necessary.
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| 34 | </p>
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| 35 | <note>
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| 36 | <ul>
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| 37 | <li>
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| 38 | <p>
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| 39 | IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in square brackets to
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| 40 | specify a port. For example: <codeph>mstsc
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| 41 | [fe80::1:2:3:4]:3389</codeph>
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| 42 | </p>
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| 43 | </li>
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| 44 | <li>
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| 45 | <p>
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| 46 | When connecting to localhost in order to test the
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| 47 | connection, the addresses <codeph>localhost</codeph>
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| 48 | and <codeph>127.0.0.1</codeph> might not work using
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| 49 | <userinput>mstsc.exe</userinput>. Instead, the address
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| 50 | <codeph>127.0.0.2[:3389]</codeph> has to be used.
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| 51 | </p>
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| 52 | </li>
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| 53 | </ul>
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| 54 | </note>
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| 55 | </li>
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| 56 | <li>
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| 57 | <p>
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| 58 | On other systems, you can use the standard open source
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| 59 | <userinput>rdesktop</userinput> program. This ships with most
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| 60 | Linux distributions.
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| 61 | </p>
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| 62 | <p>
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| 63 | With <userinput>rdesktop</userinput>, use a command line such as
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| 64 | the following:
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| 65 | </p>
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| 66 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ rdesktop -a 16 -N 1.2.3.4:3389</pre>
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| 67 | <p>
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| 68 | Replace <codeph>1.2.3.4</codeph> with the host IP address,
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| 69 | and <codeph>3389</codeph> with a different port, if
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| 70 | necessary. The <codeph>-a</codeph> 16 option requests a
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| 71 | color depth of 16 bits per pixel, which we recommend. For
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| 72 | best performance, after installation of the guest operating
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| 73 | system, you should set its display color depth to the same
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| 74 | value. The <codeph>-N</codeph> option enables use of the
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| 75 | NumPad keys.
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| 76 | </p>
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| 77 | </li>
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| 78 | <li>
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| 79 | <p>
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| 80 | You can use the Remmina remote desktop client with VRDP.
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| 81 | This application is included with some Linux distributions,
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| 82 | such as Debian and Ubuntu.
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| 83 | </p>
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| 84 | </li>
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| 85 | <li>
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| 86 | <p>
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| 87 | If you run the KDE desktop, you can use
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| 88 | <userinput>krdc</userinput>, the KDE RDP viewer. A typical
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| 89 | command line is as follows:
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| 90 | </p>
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| 91 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ krdc rdp://1.2.3.4:3389</pre>
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| 92 | <p>
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| 93 | Replace <codeph>1.2.3.4</codeph> with the host IP address,
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| 94 | and <codeph>3389</codeph> with a different port, if
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| 95 | necessary. The <codeph>rdp:// </codeph> prefix is required
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| 96 | with <userinput>krdc</userinput> to switch it into RDP mode.
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| 97 | </p>
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| 98 | </li>
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| 99 | <li>
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| 100 | <p>
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| 101 | With Sun Ray thin clients you can use
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| 102 | <userinput>uttsc</userinput>, which is part of the Sun Ray
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| 103 | Windows Connector package. See the Sun Ray documentation for
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| 104 | details.
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| 105 | </p>
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| 106 | </li>
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| 107 | </ul>
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| 108 | </body>
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| 109 |
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| 110 | </topic>
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