The following steps detail how to connect over Remote Desktop from Linux Mint or Ubuntu to Windows 10 with an AzureAD username and password login account.
- In Windows 10, right-click This PC or My Computer and select Properties.
- Click Remote Settings.
- Check the option Allow remote connections to this computer.
- Uncheck the option Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication.
- Click OK.
- In Linux Mint, running Software Manager and install Remmina.
- Open a terminal and install the RDP plug-in with the following command:
sudo apt install remmina remmina-plugin-rdp
- Run Remmina.
- Create a new connection using RDP.
- Enter your Server, Username (your AzureAD email address:
AzureAD\name@company.com), Password, Domain: leave blank. - Select Color depth "True color (32 bpp)".
- Click the Advanced tab.
- For Security select TLS.
- Scroll down and check the option Ignore certificate.
- Connect.
- In the RDP session, you may see another login screen on the remote computer. Login using your username AzureAD\name@company.com and password.
To those who have set up mandatory multi-factor authentication for your Azure AD, then you will most likely run into this when trying to log in:
The official page for the issue says that you can remove the MFA requirement per user, but the resolution steps fail to mention that even if you install the requisite
MSOnlinePowerShell module using theFind-Module -Name MSOnline | Install-Modulecommand, then you'll still run into issues as that module isn't supported on PowerShell 7 (at the time of writing this). Executing the necessaryConnect-MsolServicecommand to initiate a connection to Azure AD will yield:There is an issue for this that was promptly closed (after a single day's worth of inactivity...).
Curious to know if there are any workarounds to this that don't require disabling MFA 🤔