Easy way to get xrdp to work for Kali on WSL or HyperV

After burning way too many hours looking for an answer I decided to actually solve my own problem.

Root cause appears to be that xorgxrdp is no longer included in the distro. I've tested this on WSL and HyperV on Win10 with success.

Start off with getting everything up to date and tweak the listening port for xrdp:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install kali-desktop-xfce xorg xrdp

sed -i 's/port=3389/port=3390/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini #Critical that you do this up if you are WSL if 3389 is in use

Next we need to get some tools and build xorgxrdp

apt-get install git autoconf automake libtool pkg-config nasm gcc make xserver-xorg-dev

git clone https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xorgxrdp.git

cd xorgxrdp

./bootstrap

./configure

make
make install

Last step needed is to tweak /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh

Comment out the last two lines in the file

#test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession

#exec /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession

and add

startxfce4

start xrdp

/etc/init.d/xrdp start

Run mstsc.exe and point to 127.0.0.1:3390 if on WSL, or IP of guest vm and configured port of choice.

Hope this helps.

Why do I still have to do this 3.5 years later? Why is the latest xorgxrdp not part of kali?

get clone https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xorgxrdp.git


did you mean GIT clone instead of GET?

git, without any doubts

LOL... thanks.