Access AlmaLinux 9 via RDP

XRDP is an open-source implementation of remote desktop protocols developed by Microsoft.

Prerequisites

• AlmaLinux 9 with GUI such as Gnome, XFCE, KDE
• Allow port 3389 in the firewall

#Add Firewall 
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=3389/tcp

#Reload Firewall service
firewall-cmd --reload

Setup XRDP on AlmaLinux 9

• Add Epel Repo and run system update, because XRDP are not available in the AppStream

sudo dnf install epel-release
sudo dnf update

• Install XRDP

sudo dnf install xrdp

• Start XRDP service

sudo systemctl start xrdp

• Enable XRDP service - To make sure the XRDP service will start automatically whenever the system boot

sudo systemctl enable xrdp
## check the service is running
systemctl status xrdp

• Log out AlmaLinux session

Test Remote Desktop from Windows

• Run Remote Desktop - Press the Win+R key and type- mstsc.exe
• enter your remote Linux IP address
• Enter your credential and press OK //Enjoy

Reference

• xrdp by neutrinolabs