I have followed several online tutorials for setting up a Ubuntu 20.04 graphical console on my Ubuntu droplet. None work. I always wind up in the text console. I have tried Brave, Firefox and Safari from both my macos 11.6.6 iMac and Brave and Firefox from my Ubuntu 20.04 machines.
Does anyone have any hints?
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Hello,
One option would be to use xrdp for this. You can follow these steps here:
-
Setup a new Ubuntu Droplet with enough resources
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SSH to the new droplet and run:
sudo apt-get update
- Then if you like Gnome desktop, install the following:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
- After that install XRDP:
sudo apt-get install xrdp
- Enable XRDP to start on boot:
systemctl enable xrdp
- If you have a firewall make sure that the
3389port is open:
sudo ufw allow 3389/tcp
- Add a new low privileged account:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-18-04
Then you can use any RDP client to connect to your server with your new account.
Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Bobby Source
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