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Install RDP

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- [Voiceover] RDP, or Remote Desktop Protocol, is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft for doing remote desktop. RDP clients exist for many different operating systems besides Windows, including Linux, Unix, macOS, iOS, Android, and others. RDP used to be called Terminal Services in Windows, and it's now called Remote Desktop Connection. Over the years, Microsoft has added encryption, acceleration, multimedia features like audio playback and video acceleration, as well as USB redirection. To do remote desktop with RDP, we'll be installing XRDP server on our CentOS Linux VM. XRDP uses TigerVNC, so we'll be installing that as well. We will need to install two third party software repositories, EPEL, and NUX, N-U-X. To start out, let's click on Applications and start up the FireFox web browser. In the URL bar, type in li.nux.ro /repos.html. The line we're interested in is the one that says EL7, Enterprise Linux 7. This will be the package we need for CentOS Linux 7. Right click,…

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