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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 such a remote virtual
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| 8 | machine. For this to work, you must specify the IP address of your <i>host</i> system, not of the virtual machine,
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| 9 | as the server address to connect to. You must also specify the port number that the VRDP server is using. </p>
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| 10 | <p>The following examples are for the most common RDP viewers: </p>
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| 11 | <ul>
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| 12 | <li>
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| 13 | <p>On Windows, you can use the Microsoft Terminal Services Connector, <userinput>mstsc.exe</userinput>, that is
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| 14 | included with Windows. Press the Windows key + R, to display the <b outputclass="bold">Run</b> dialog. Enter
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| 15 | <userinput>mstsc</userinput> to start the program. You can also find the program in <b outputclass="bold"
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| 16 | >Start</b>, <b outputclass="bold">All Programs</b>, <b outputclass="bold">Accessories</b>, <b
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| 17 | outputclass="bold">Remote Desktop Connection</b>. If you use the <b outputclass="bold">Run</b> dialog, you
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| 18 | can enter options directly. For example: </p>
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| 19 | <pre xml:space="preserve">mstsc 1.2.3.4:3389</pre>
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| 20 | <p>Replace <codeph>1.2.3.4</codeph> with the host IP address, and <codeph>3389</codeph> with a different port,
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| 21 | if necessary. </p>
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| 22 | <note>
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| 23 | <ul>
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| 24 | <li>
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| 25 | <p>IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in square brackets to specify a port. For example: <codeph>mstsc
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| 26 | [fe80::1:2:3:4]:3389</codeph>
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| 27 | </p>
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| 28 | </li>
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| 29 | <li>
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| 30 | <p>When connecting to localhost in order to test the connection, the addresses <codeph>localhost</codeph>
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| 31 | and <codeph>127.0.0.1</codeph> might not work using <userinput>mstsc.exe</userinput>. Instead, the
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| 32 | address <codeph>127.0.0.2[:3389]</codeph> has to be used. </p>
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| 33 | </li>
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| 34 | </ul>
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| 35 | </note>
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| 36 | </li>
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| 37 | <li>
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| 38 | <p>On other systems, you can use the standard open source <userinput>rdesktop</userinput> program. This ships
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| 39 | with most Linux distributions. </p>
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| 40 | <p>With <userinput>rdesktop</userinput>, use a command line such as the following: </p>
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| 41 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ rdesktop -a 16 -N 1.2.3.4:3389</pre>
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| 42 | <p>Replace <codeph>1.2.3.4</codeph> with the host IP address, and <codeph>3389</codeph> with a different port,
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| 43 | if necessary. The <codeph>-a</codeph> 16 option requests a color depth of 16 bits per pixel, which we
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| 44 | recommend. For best performance, after installation of the guest operating system, you should set its display
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| 45 | color depth to the same value. The <codeph>-N</codeph> option enables use of the NumPad keys. </p>
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| 46 | </li>
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| 47 | <li>
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| 48 | <p>You can use the Remmina remote desktop client with VRDP. This application is included with some Linux
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| 49 | distributions, such as Debian and Ubuntu. </p>
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| 50 | </li>
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| 51 | <li>
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| 52 | <p>If you run the KDE desktop, you can use <userinput>krdc</userinput>, the KDE RDP viewer. A typical command
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| 53 | line is as follows: </p>
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| 54 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ krdc rdp://1.2.3.4:3389</pre>
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| 55 | <p>Replace <codeph>1.2.3.4</codeph> with the host IP address, and <codeph>3389</codeph> with a different port,
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| 56 | if necessary. The <codeph>rdp:// </codeph> prefix is required with <userinput>krdc</userinput> to switch it
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| 57 | into RDP mode. </p>
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| 58 | </li>
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| 59 | <li>
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| 60 | <p>With Sun Ray thin clients you can use <userinput>uttsc</userinput>, which is part of the Sun Ray Windows
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| 61 | Connector package. See the Sun Ray documentation for details. </p>
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| 62 | </li>
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| 63 | </ul>
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| 64 | </body>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | </topic>
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