If you're like me and were staring at this error popup then allow me to share what worked for me:
Prerequisite
You should've already enabled Remote Login in Ubuntu 24's settings with a username and password
It doesn't have to be a real user on device, just a username and password for RDP authentication purposes
Steps
You've likely already done this first step but if you haven't
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'Add PC' in Microsoft Remote Desktop App for Mac with all changes that you'd like.
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Export the config to a location of your choosing
Open the RDP config file with any text editor
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Edit the line that states:
use redirection server name:i:0
to
use redirection server name:i:1
Note: the last 0 has to be changed to a 1
- Save file and open the RDP connection from this newly edited/saved file directly (Either by double-clicking or by dragging in the config to Microsoft Remote Desktop App)
That's it.
Hope it helped!
Top comments (7)
Chiming in from January 2025! This was the only fix that worked for me out of a mountain of other edits! Thank you!
after more than 48 hours of trying to connect without any luck finally found this article. thank you so much.
How the hell did you find that ??!!!!
Amazing. Bravo. Worked.
This works for connecting from MacOS Sequoia running Windows App to Debian 13 Gnome and xrdp. Thank you!
I made an account just to say. Thank you! This is the only fixed that worked for me and I tried everything and looked everywhere. Thank you so much!
It did work over here as well, thank you so much for the tip !
Thank you so much! This worked perfectly!