Remmina-free and open-source Remote Desktop Client written in GTK+
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Remmina is a remote desktop client written in GTK+, aiming to be useful for system administrators and travellers, who need to work with lots of remote computers in front of either large monitors or tiny netbooks.Remmina supports multiple network protocols in an integrated and consistant user interface. Currently RDP, VNC, XDMCP and SSH are supported.
Remmina is free and open-source software, released under GNU GPL license.Currently,the latest version Remmina 0.7.4 released on February 18, 2010.
Install in Ubuntu
Add Remmina PPA by editing /etc/apt/sources.list with this command (or open system->Administration->Software Sources and add Remmina PPA source.)
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
append this line into the end of the file:
for 9.10:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/llyzs/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
for 9.04:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/llyzs/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Add the key and update:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 5A0FA8F1
sudo apt-get update
Now,there should be three packages in ubuntu repository:
* “remmina”, the main GTK+ application
* “remmina-gnome”, the GNOME desktop applet
* “remmina-xfce”, the Xfce panel plugin
Install them from synaptic package manager,or use the sudo apt-get install packagename command to install them.
Remmina mainpage:http://remmina.sourceforge.net/index.shtml
Screenshots (from Remmina mainpage)




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Reader Comments
Hmm, when I tried connecting to another Ubuntu karmic machine, all I got was black screen when connecting through XDMCP. SSH works fine. Do I need to be running anything on the client computer to enable connecting via XDMCP?
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We are running Remmina on Ubuntu to access our Microsoft Windows Server 2003 via Remote Desktop Protocol , we got a problem when printing from Windows Server through Remmina to Our Client PC (Ubuntu) . The first problem is the default printer from client (Ubuntu-Remmina) does not match to default printer at Window Server 2003 and the second when printing we need custom size paper defined from Windows 2003 such as (width paper = 8.5″ and height = 5.5″) through Ubuntu Reminna. Please give me any suggestion to fix the problem . Thanks
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We are running Remmina on Ubuntu to access our Microsoft Windows Server 2003/8 via Remote Desktop Protocol (like Frans) by I need to auto-connect the RDP session… Is it possible?
Thanks for your help!
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