VNC and RDP setup help needed...

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#1

Hi,

Can I have some remote terminal setup help please…

I have installed VNC and RDP, but even after adding TCP 5901 and 3811 ports to the firewall via YAST2, the connection request times out.

Thanks

Lee

#2

Which VNC and RPD packages have you installed?

BTW, “Remmina” seems to be the preferred RDP client – rather than “rdesktop” …

#3

Assuming that you are using “firewalld” then the config program is “firewall-config”, which I don’t think is in YaST2. The applet in YaST2 pointed to the old SUSE YaST2 firewall so I got rid of it. That might have been a hangover as my system has had a long history of upgrades.

Anyway. I just enable the “rdp” service in “firewall-config” (alternatively from the KDE menu system -> firewall).

All just worked for me and I use a variety of clients.

#4

Yes, I can confirm this – the package “firewall-config” has to be installed – currently nothing pulls it in …

  • What’s weird is, the “yast2-firewall
    ” package’s “README.md” states –

Since the adoption of firewalld this repository contains just some useful clients and libraries for installation and autoinstallation.

YaST currently does not have a module to configure the firewall.

If you are looking for a new option, we recommend to use firewall-config to configure your firewall via a user interface or firewall-cmd for the command line.

  • And, to top that off, the Pattern “patterns-yast-yast2_basis
    ” pulls in “yast2-firewall” … *=2]Need to check if, this is still the case of Leap 15.3 …
    *=2]AFAICS, there ain’t anything in the Release Notes regarding this topic …

[HR][/HR]BTW, the openSUSE documentation for the current Firewall (firewalld) is here – <https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/security/html/book-security/cha-security-firewall.html#sec-security-firewall-firewalld>.

#5

Tumbleweed does (or more accurately “did and probably still does”) pull in the old YaST2-firewall module.