- Click Start Menu .
- Right-click Computer .
- Select Properties .
- Click Remote settings .
- Make sure both Allow Remote Assistance Connections to This Computer and Allow Computers Running Any Version of Remote Desktop are selected.
Please change the Adapter type.
Now, go back to the main VirtualBox window and launch your virtual machine. Now when Windows 7 starts, you will see that it is part of the LAN IP address system.
Activate RDP
Before connecting to Windows 7 desktop via RDP, you must activate this service. To do so, follow the steps below from within your Windows 7 virtual machine:
After checking those settings again, click OK to set them up.
RDP Linux client
The Terminal Server Client (tsclient) is one of the most user-friendly and highly reliable RDP Linux clients. By default, the Terminal Server Client is installed on the Ubuntu desktop. If not, you can go to the Ubuntu Software Center, enter the search term 'terminal server' (do not type the quotation marks), click Terminal Server Client , click the arrow pointing to the right and click Install .
When that software is installed, you will see it in the Internet submenu in the Applications menu. Launch it, you will see the main tsclient window as shown in Figure C below.
Here you just need to enter:
After entering this required information, click Connect , and a new window will appear, running the remote instance of the Windows 7 desktop (Figure D).
Conclude
In this article we have demonstrated how flexible RDP is and now you can administer a remote Windows 7 computer with a Linux desktop.