How to setup FreeRDP from Linux (Ubuntu) to Windows 7
This one's for all those tech geeks out there...
There's finally a working solution to use RemoteApp from Windows - that means you can finally have a RELIABLE seamless desktop with a remote Windows PC on you linux machine.
I was using VirtualBox with their great seamless mode for a while with Ubuntu, but it was never really stable. After a few hours it would crash every time. When it was running, it ran well. But it never worked for very long.
The xFreeRDP solution lets you connect to a remote computer and use windows programs seamlessly with Microsoft's RemoteApp (which is built in to Win7, Vista, Server)
1. Make sure you have Windows 7 ENTERPRISE or ULTIMATE or Windows Server. This won't work on Windows 7 Pro.
2. Download the latest version of Free RDP from Here
3. Setup your system for compiling it - on Ubuntu you need to do the following:
4. On your Windows 7 machine, run Regedit and under HKLocalMachine\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT add a key named "Terminal Services"
5. Under that, add a DWORD32 value named "fAllowUnlistedRemotePrograms" and set the value to 1
If you don't do this, you will get the following error: RAIL exec error: execResult=RAIL_EXEC_E_NOT_IN_ALLOWLIST NtError=0x15
6. run the following command on your Linux box
Note your rail.so path may be different, so you may have to search for it.
That's it... you can now launch programs from the cmd shell.
There's finally a working solution to use RemoteApp from Windows - that means you can finally have a RELIABLE seamless desktop with a remote Windows PC on you linux machine.
First off: why do this?
I was using VirtualBox with their great seamless mode for a while with Ubuntu, but it was never really stable. After a few hours it would crash every time. When it was running, it ran well. But it never worked for very long.
The xFreeRDP solution lets you connect to a remote computer and use windows programs seamlessly with Microsoft's RemoteApp (which is built in to Win7, Vista, Server)
How...
1. Make sure you have Windows 7 ENTERPRISE or ULTIMATE or Windows Server. This won't work on Windows 7 Pro.
2. Download the latest version of Free RDP from Here
3. Setup your system for compiling it - on Ubuntu you need to do the following:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core cmake libssl-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev libxv-dev libxkbfile-dev libasound2-dev libcups2-dev$ sudo apt-get install libavutil-dev libavcodec-dev $ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DWITH_SSE2=ON .$ make$ sudo make install$ sudo cat > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/freerdp.conf /usr/local/lib/freerdp/usr/local/lib$ ldconfig4. On your Windows 7 machine, run Regedit and under HKLocalMachine\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT add a key named "Terminal Services"
5. Under that, add a DWORD32 value named "fAllowUnlistedRemotePrograms" and set the value to 1
If you don't do this, you will get the following error: RAIL exec error: execResult=RAIL_EXEC_E_NOT_IN_ALLOWLIST NtError=0x15
6. run the following command on your Linux box
$ xfreerdp -u <username> --app --plugin ./usr/local/lib/freerdp/rail.so --data "%windir%\system32\cmd.exe" -- <ip of your windows machine>
Note your rail.so path may be different, so you may have to search for it.
That's it... you can now launch programs from the cmd shell.
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