RDP connection : Not able to connect to rdp when converted to wsl2

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RDP connection : Not able to connect to rdp when converted to wsl2

KushalSM opened this issue 4 years ago · 9 comments

I have tried the wsl 1 version and it works beautifully and I am able to rdp into it perfectly.
When I converted it to wsl 2 i got no errors anywhere but when i followed you guide of what changes to make, i tried to connect to the RDP session it showed this error,

My laptop name is KUSHALSM-LAPTOP

Idk what to do, pls help me!!!!

Answer 1 · 2020-08-04T18:56:17.000Z

*EDIT: Before doing any of this first make sure the Init task is running after the conversion to WSL2. In your case that would be:
schtasks /run /tn Kushal_KDE

Hi there,

Perhaps you have an issue with multicast DNS.

Try this -- Open a console to your Linux instance and run:

hostname -I

It will return the IP address of your WSL instance - Use that instead of the hostname for your RDP connection.
Let me know how things go for you.

Cheers,
D.

Answer 2 · 2020-08-06T07:49:19.000Z

By init do you mean the the init task you must run before rdping int the wsl gui desktop?

Edit:-
Cheers!!!
It works, the solution you have me was very helpful and I am able to Firefox and chrome and even the audio is working even though there is a issue of the video and audio not syncing..

The main point is that wsl 2 support works and with audio included..

Hats off to you..

Cheers again :D

Answer 3 · 2020-08-06T14:41:22.000Z

Hello thank you for the kind words. Glad to hear things are working as expected. If you go to youtube and play a video with the bundled version of Mozilla browser, do you still lose audio sync? I have not seen that issue unless you are connecting to the WSL instance from another machine on your internal network.

Cheers,
D.

Answer 4 · 2020-08-06T15:07:38.000Z

what do you mean by "bundled version of mozilla browser", Iam kind of a newbie linux user but love it so can you pleases tell in detail...

And also could you help to create a script that laucnches the rdp connection with the changed ip address. If not, its fine and I will try to create one and share it with you.

Answer 5 · 2020-08-07T05:08:02.000Z

By the way to help you, I have told people in youtube in comments section to go to you repo and try both xWSL and kWSL. Is it fine??

Answer 6 · 2020-08-07T05:37:04.000Z

what do you mean by "bundled version of mozilla browser", Iam kind of a newbie linux user but love it so can you pleases tell in detail...

Try using Mozilla Seamonkey as your browser:

By the way to help you, I have told people in youtube in comments section to go to you repo and try both xWSL and kWSL. Is it fine??

Please do!

Answer 7 · 2020-08-07T08:42:41.000Z

I have no problem with seamonkey.
I was talking about firefox latest version in wsl 2. At the first there was no audio and video sync at first but now it is ok. Must have been a first time issue..

Answer 8 · 2020-08-07T08:50:52.000Z

@DesktopECHO
Also how did you get the kwsl.local to work?
Because it is better to do that instead of everytime checking the ip addr and the connecting to it??

Edit:-
I actually got the kwsl.local working
I had put by distro name as KDE-Plasma, so instead of kwsl.local I had to change it to KDE-Plasma.local. So you can edit the README.md file and tell that they have to put the distro name they chose when running the batch file..

Answer 9 · 2020-08-08T18:37:48.000Z

Thx for updating the README.md

Cheers 👍