How to Connect Windows machine with RDP from CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 Console

There are some scenarios where linux admins need to connect to windows servers with rdp from linux console or GUI. Whenever we do the minimal installation of CentOS 7 or RHEL 7 we do not have any tools to RDP windows machine. So we have to manually install ‘freerdp’ package which will allows us to take remote desktop of windows server from console or terminal.

‘freerdp’ package is available in the default CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 repositories. In Case you have installed your CentOS 7 or RHEL 7 with Desktop Environments like GNOME or KDE then ‘freerdp’ package will be installed automatically.

Let’s first install Desktop environment related packages using the beneath yum command. If we don’t install these packages then xfreerdp command will not work from command line

[[email protected] ~]# yum install "@X Window System" xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-fonts-* xorg-x11-utils –y
[[email protected] ~]# yum install freerdp -y

Once the freerdp is installed successfully then we have ‘xfreerdp’ command through we can connect to windows machine.  Disconnect ssh session of your server and connect it again with ‘-X’ option. Example is shown below

‘ssh [email protected]{your-server-ip} -X‘

Run the below ‘xfreerdp’ command, replace the user name and ip address and screen resolution as per your setup.

[[email protected] ~]# xfreerdp -g 800x600 -u administrator 192.168.0.151

Note: Before taking RDP, please make sure remote desktop option is enabled in windows server

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