Using windows exported ".rdp" file from Ubuntu

Question

I got this ".rdp" remoteAPP file from work which enables me to run a specific application from the terminal server, I can open it easily using windows with a double click, are there any ways to open this kind of files from Ubuntu ?

Solution 1

You can use Remmina, which is default application for remote desktop in Ubuntu from version 11.04.

From Remmina main menu select Tools -> Import and select your .rdp file. It will be imported and added to your saved connections in Remmina and you can use it anytime you start Remmina.

Solution 2

From the terminal this worked for me:

remmina -c Downloads/somemachine.rdp 

The command line help says:

$ remmina  --help
...
-c, --connect=FILE          Connect to a .remmina file

Older versions of remmina don't understand the line administrative session:i:1 in files produced by the azure portal, so you either need to upgrade remmina to a more recent version of comment out that line in the file (prefix with # works).

Solution 3

Remmina works on Linux Mint 17.3 (Ubuntu 14.04 based)

however I could not get it to work directly with the .rdp file. Neither via import nor per double click.

what actually worked fine was:

opening the .rdp file with a texteditor. Copy pasting server name and gateway name to remmina.

edit: this also saves me from having to download the .rdp file, searching for it on my computer, etc.

Solution 4

Drag and drop the rdp file in the Remmima inbuilt application. Select the connection and edit the details like password. Connect it. Should work fine.

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Comments

[Prinzhorn]

I couldn't find this menu on 13.04. But dragging and dropping the file into Remmina worked...

[Goddard]

This application doesn't work with the more complex RDP connections.

[IgorGanapolsky]

Can I use Remmina to open MacInCloud connections in Ubuntu? I just wanna double-click on the rdp file, just like on Windows.

[Guildenstern]

The error I got in the GUI was just “Unable to establish a […]” without any explanation. But opening the program in the terminal gave me this from stdout/stderr: ERRCONNECT_NO_OR_MISSING_CREDENTIALS [0x0002001B]. Something to keep in mind.