Remmina or equivalent in Windows 10/11 to have remote desktop access in Linux?

[Manuel_Jordan]

Hello Friends

To have remote desktop access through GUI among many OS in Linux I use Remmina as the client. Until here no reason to create this post

But what software is possible to use as client in Windows 10/11 to have remote desktop access in Linux?

Consider you are in the house of a member of your family and you need get access through a GUI to a Linux machine

Thank You

[kovacslt (László Kovács)]

@Manuel_Jordan

Consider you are in the house of a member of your family and you need get access through a GUI to a Linux machine

I think I’d try to set up XRDP on my Linux machine, which acts as a server in this case. Then just use Remote Desktop from Windows to connect to it.
I used XRDP before, it’s setup is a bit tricky, but doable.

[Manuel_Jordan]

Thanks for the reply Laszlo

Do you mean about?

How to use Remote Desktop - Microsoft Support

There is a problem there, my laptop has Windows 11 Home and for that tool is requested “Pro”.

[kovacslt (László Kovács)]

The latest Windows I used was Windows 10 home. It could not act as RDP server, but had the possibility to connect to a server. The “pro” was a requirement to set up RDP server. I have no idea about Windows 11 in this regard.

I’m not sure I understood your question correctly, so clarify please:

1. You want to see the screen of your Linux machine on a Windows computer, and do something on your Linux computer using the Windows computer as client.
2. You want to see the screen of your Windows computer, and do some things on your Windows computer using your Linux computer as kind of a terminal.

Which is the goal?

[Rosika (Rosika Schreck)]

Hi @kovacslt and all,

@kovacslt

I’m not sure I understood your question correctly, so clarify please:
[…]
Which is the goal?

Wouldn´t it be safe and simple to use anydesk for things like that

I could help my friend Margret this way (on many occasions).
She uses both a WIN laptop (for school) and a Linux Lite laptop (privately).
On both of them she has installed anydesk and I could provide help from my running Linux Lite instance.

There´s also a dedicated anydesk.profile available for running it within the firejail sandbox (for Linux).

Just a thought.

• The Fast Remote Desktop Application – AnyDesk

Cheers from Rosika

[Manuel_Jordan]

Thanks for the replies

Laszlo

Which is the goal?

For example if both are Linux

Linux client (Remmina) ---> Linux Server (Ubuntu Desktop, Debian Desktop, Fedora Workstation)

Thus I have a remote control in 100% from the client to the server … I can see at real time the server as client. Of course I can use the server as if I were locally

Thus

Windows client (????) ---> Linux Server (Ubuntu Desktop, Debian Desktop, Fedora Workstation)

What to install in Windows to get access in Linux as remote

Rosika

The Fast Remote Desktop Application – AnyDesk

Interesting

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@Manuel_Jordan

But what software is possible to use as client in Windows 10/11 to have remote desktop access in Linux?

Hi Manuel,
Another answer to your question is to use anydesk.
See @Rosika 's latest topic

Secure Linux Remote Access with AnyDesk (Unattended Mode)

Hi everyone, This is a joint post by @nevj and @Rosika. and Neville (@nevj) and Rosika (@Rosika) recently experimented with secure unattended remote access using AnyDesk on Linux. We thought it might help others, so here’s a detailed guide based on our setup. Feedback welcome! Note: In this tutorial, we demonstrate the setup using Rosika accessing Neville’s remote machine as an example. However, the same method can easily be applied if you wish to configure unattended remote access to you…

Regards
Neville

[daniel.m.tripp (Dan Tripp)]

“Windows App” from the app store :

Windows App to replace Remote Desktop app for Windows - Windows IT Pro Blog

I had to install the MacOs version from the Apple App Store… I believe Microsoft App store hosts the “Windows App” for MS Windows (stupid naming convention - it’s confusing - but - its for accessing Windows systems remotely, and also for AVD [Azure Virtual Desktop]).

That should work if you Linux machine is running XRDP…

Otherwise - you could run VNC server on the Linux host, and VNC Viewer on the Windows machine…

[Laura_Michaels]

Haven’t looked into it enough but there is a version of freerdp and a freerdp sdl client. I’ve used xrdp on WSL 1 Debian Linux and been able to use remote desktop on a Windows machine to access it. Haven’t tried going the other. You can run X Windows on either Linux or Windows and X forward from one to the other. It’s probably more useful on Linux because you can see a whole desktop that way. Running X on Windows, if you wanted to connect from a Linux system, you’d be limited to what you could see running in X on the Windows machine.

[Daniel_Phillips]

Do not claim to understand what you guys are wanting but I am building LFS on a separate machine.
Although I prefer to use Gentoo, my W11 machine can also connect via ssh with the LFS machine, without any other app installed.

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@Daniel_Phillips

Although I prefer to use Gentoo, my W11 machine can also connect via ssh with the LFS machine, without any other app installed.

Because both machines are on your local network .
It is more difficult to connect to a remote computer via the internet, because you need to take security precautions.
We are talking about people wanting to walk around the world with their laptop, and still be able to connect to the home desktop or the office server, when required.