Vnc Viewer does not connecting but Windows Remote Desktop works

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I just purchased a VPS and configured a remote desktop, it works fine with Windows Remote Desktop. but it can't be connected with VNC viewer.

I assumed maybe RDs using different ports so executed netstat -tulpn | grep xrdp in the server and tried ip:3389, but didn't work again.
The server is running on "CentOS release 6.5 (Final)"

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:3350              0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      696/xrdp-sesman
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3389                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      692/xrdp

Best Answer

VNC and RDP use different protocols, so you can't connect to an RDP server with a VNC client. xrdp is a RDP server that manages a VNC server. In principle you could connect to that VNC server with a VNC client, but that probably isn't what you want.

Use an RDP client instead. You don't mention the OS you need it for; on Linux, I've been using grdesktop, Remmina, rdesktop and a front-end for it, gnome-rdp.

I've found grdesktop too limited in the features it supports and the settings it can save. I'm using Remmina now, and gnome-rdp with a simple wrapper around rdesktop that will automatically share drives.

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