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Connecting Remote desktop for WSL2 🖥️

📝 Prerequisites

  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed on WSL2
  • Windows Machine

And thats about it 😉 !

Install Ubuntu If you haven't installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on WSL2, you can follow the steps here

📥 Installing Remote Desktop Support tools

On Ubuntu

Terminal window
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://abhijithganesh.com/remote.sh)"

On Windows

There’s nothing to do on Windows because remote desktop is already installed on Windows by default.

🚀 Connecting to WSL2 from Windows

The shell script should already have a GUI instance for you, check it using:

Terminal window
sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp status

Output

Terminal window
$ sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp status
 * xrdp-sesman is running
 * xrdp is running

If you see the above output, you can connect to WSL2 from Windows using the Remote Desktop Connection app.

🏃‍♂️Open run and type mstsc and hit enter

Windows run

🖥️ Connect to localhost:3390

It will show warnings but you can click on yes to continue

Windows RDP connect

Remote view 👓

RDP view

Input your credentials and you’ll be through.

Congratulations 🎉

You have successfully connected to WSL2 from Windows using Remote Desktop Connection.

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