Trouble with KDE Remote Desktop

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I’m struggling with getting KDE remote desktop to work.
I’m running two EndeavourOS machines: both on KDE Plasma 6.3.1.
On my server machine: I’ve made sure to enable the ‘rdp’ protocol on the ‘home’ zone, and can see that ‘home’ is the active zone. I am able to “enable RDP server”.
On my client machine: I’ve also enabled ‘rdp’ on ‘home’ as above. I’ve downloaded krdc and remmina clients. For kdrc, my client doesn’t even ‘see’ the server. For remmina on RDC protocol, I get “cannot connect to ____ server”. I’ve tried my server IP address and Computer name.
I can ping from my client to my server successfully.

Any idea what i’m missing? Thanks in advance.

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port 22 is missing from your login

at least that’s the solution i found when encountering that error.

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I had such hope. I’ve opened 22/tcp adn 22/upd on both client and server.
krdc: “Could not find the server”
Remmina: Cannot connect to the “192.168.50.250” server.

I’m so very frustrated with remote desktop on KDE plasma 6.

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More debug information:

  • I’ve disabled firewalld on both client and server
  • I can successfully ssh from my client into my server.

But still no luck using Remmina or KRDC to connect to my KRDP server.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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if you use filezilla try and connect using port 22, does that work?

on the server machine (target), what are the output of

sudo systemctl status ssh or sudo service ssh status

does it say active (running)
does it say Server listening on :: port 22.

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Hello,

I didn’t use filezilla, but similarly, i installed openssl and started an ssh daemon.
$systemctl status sshd
“active (running)”
and
“Server listenting on :: port 22”

I am able to use my client and log into it.

Frustrated with KRDP, and remote desktop support for KWin + Wayland in general. On a whim I tried Sunshine + Moonlight.
Installed Sunshine on the server from LizardByte’s repo
Installed Moonlight on the client from Arch User Repo.

Boom… Worked first time! I have remote desktop!

Regarding KRDP, I’m very frustrated with it.
I consider it a broken mess.
I’ll probably revisit it in a couple months when it matures.
Thankfully, sunshine + moonlight meets my needs for now.

skyfishgoo - THANK YOU! people like you, who donate time to help the technically challenged (like me) are awesome. i appreciate you.

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