RDP Client for Ubuntu with Proxy

Question

I'm running a Ubuntu/Win7 dual boot on my laptop and have a Win8.1 machine which I'd like to access via RDP from my Ubuntu system. I found a couple of RDP clients which generally work well, but unfortunately I have to access the Internet through the proxy of my college, which none of them apparently supports. I still have Remmina RDP installed.

I've set the proxy-settings (which also requires authentication) in the .bashrc as well as in the apt.conf.

How can I get the current client working? is there something around allowing manual proxy configuration?

Solution

Test this:

Open a terminal.

Press Ctrl+Alt+T

Run it:

$ remmina

Press the button to create a new desktop file.

Set up remmina so you can connect to through the GUI.

Save it.

Quit.

Look in your /home/user/.remmina/ directory to a xxxxxxx.remmina file.

Edit it:

 $ nano /home/user/.remmina/xxxxxxx.remmina

Add the following line:

http_proxy=http://username:[email protected]:port/

Ctrl + O, save file. Ctrl + X, close nano.

From the terminal, run it:

 $ remmina -c /home/user/.remmina/xxxxxxx.remmina

That should have brought up your desktop connection.

Comments

[Fabian]

thanks very much, it even works when i start it normally from the GUI :)