How can I copy/paste files via RDP in Kubuntu?

Question

I recently installed the latest Kubuntu (x64) on my work machine as I am trying to migrate away from Windows. Unfortunately I use RDP very frequently to connect to customer's servers and need to be able to copy files across.

I have tried the following packages with no luck:

remmina
rdesktop
xfreerdp

My latest attempt to solve this involved connecting one of my folders to the remote server, here is the command I used to launch rdesktop:

rdesktop -5 -K -r disk:home=/home/dai -r clipboard:CLIPBOARD -r sound:off -x l -P 192.168.0.2 -u "administrator" -p pass

The servers are not all running the same version of Windows, the one I've been trying so far is running Server 2003 R2. Customer servers range from Server 2000 to Server 2008.

I have been googling this but all the solutions I find seem to fail, maybe because almost all the help out there assumes that I am running Gnome.

Edit: Copying and pasting text seems to work just fine, but that's not what I need.

score 169 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 04 '20 at 03:09

https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/issues/243 says that shares show up using Remmina when you also enable sound redirection. To recap, here is what you have to do:

Create a Remmina RDP connection to the windows machine
Edit that connection.
Under the Basic tab Choose a share folder
In Advanced tab, change sound to local. Save it and connect

Then the shared folder appears in My computer in windows.
(If it does not appear, trying clicking Refresh).

score 14 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 13 '15 at 16:09

Quoting from the man page (http://linux.die.net/man/1/rdesktop):

-r comport:<comport>=<device>,... Redirects serial devices on your client to the server. Note that if you need to change any settings on the serial device(s), do so with an appropriate tool before starting rdesktop. In most OSes you would use stty. Bidirectional/Read support requires Windows XP or newer. In Windows 2000 it will create a port, but it's not seamless, most shell programs will not work with it.

-r disk:<sharename>=<path>,... Redirects a path to the share \tsclient\ on the server (requires Windows XP or newer). The share name is limited to 8 characters.

Thus, something like this should work:

rdesktop -r disk:sharename=/home/dai -P 192.168.0.2

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 24 '15 at 14:28

9

It is strange, but rdesktop requires to share disk and sound together:

redsktop -r sound:local -r disk:share=/home/me

answered Jun 24 '15 at 14:28

Vinci

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score 7 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 19 '12 at 21:14

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Another option would be (if it is suitable of course) to use shared foler, which you can define in the connection profile of remmina.

Go to connection profile and at the bottom define a folder to share with remote machine.

edited Jun 19 '12 at 21:14

Eliah Kagan

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answered Jun 19 '12 at 15:28

Zafar

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score 6 · Answer 5 · edited Mar 16 '17 at 08:36

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Using remmina (1.2.0), it's an option in the gui:

Edit your connection
Check on 'Share folder' and select one folder in the host.

edited Mar 16 '17 at 08:36

muru

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answered Mar 16 '17 at 08:36

eleuteron

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score 5 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 06 '18 at 21:54

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with xfreerdp:

xfreerdp "/v:hostname.example.com" "/u:myusername" /drive:tmp,/tmp

answered Feb 06 '18 at 21:54

akostadinov

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score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 23 '17 at 00:57

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With KRDC v17.04.3, drives mounted at /media were automatically visible for me in Windows Explorer in a System Folder named media.

answered Aug 23 '17 at 00:57

JasonPlutext

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score 2 · Answer 8 · answered May 08 '20 at 18:59

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1) Open your ~/.local/share/remmina/*.remmina file (backup first) 2) Set absolute path to sharefolder= option 3) Reconnect. Shared folder should be visible in Windows Explorer

answered May 08 '20 at 18:59

d9k

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score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 03 '15 at 08:46

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Tip: when using rdesktop -r disk:sharename=/home/user/whatever use direct path, using ~/whatever won't work.

answered Jun 03 '15 at 08:46

matemaciek

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score -1 · Answer 10 · answered Jan 04 '19 at 12:04

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In Remmina RDP connection in Windows server and no transfer files.

Easy in software manager just look for file transfer. Like Sshfs - Filesystem client based on SSH File Transfer Protocol Install it.

answered Jan 04 '19 at 12:04

user910420

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score -1 · Answer 11 · answered Nov 02 '11 at 10:19

You could connect to shared windows folders, e.g. with nautilus.
You could setup a Samba Server on your machine and connect to it from the windows machine.
You could setup an FTP Server on one of the Machines and an FTP Client on the other machine.
Most solutions do not depend on whether you use KDE or Gnome or whatever. You can use "Gnome-Programs" in KDE and the other way around.

There is also an openssh for windows which could help you:

sshwindows

Then you could use scp e.g.:

scp sourcehost:/any/directory /any/local/directory
scp /any/local/directory destinationhost:/and/directory

But I did not try that.

How can I copy/paste files via RDP in Kubuntu?

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