How to Connect to Windows Remote Desktop with RDP from CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 Command Line

first install Desktop environment related packages using the beneath yum command. If we don’t install these packages then xfreerdp command will not work from command line

# yum install "@X Window System" xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-fonts-* xorg-x11-utils –y

Now Run this Command to install Freerdp

# yum install freerdp -y

Once the freerdp is installed successfully then we have ‘xfreerdp’ command through we can connect to windows machine.  Disconnect ssh session of your server and connect it again with ‘-X’ option. Example is shown below

‘ssh root@{your-server-ip} -X‘

Run the below ‘xfreerdp’ command, replace the user name and ip address and screen resolution as per your setup.

# xfreerdp -g 800x600 -u Admin 192.168.1.20

Rdp

Remote Desk

Note: Before taking RDP, please make sure remote desktop option is enabled in windows machine