How to enable remote access on Ubuntu server

If you buy Windows vps hosting you can remote control your server using Windows Remote Connection but what if you purchased Linux hosting with Ubuntu installed on it.Then you must be wondering how to remote access your Ubuntu server.But you could’t found how to do it.So in this article we will tell you how to enable remote access on Ubuntu server.Just follow these simple steps mention below.

What you’ll need

Linux VPS hosting with Ubuntu installed on it.Generally if your site is having less traffic then you must go with shared hosting.If if you are having very high number of traffic then you can purchase VPS hosting.I will not cover much about VPS on this topic.We recommend you to use Linode or Knownhost for vps hosting.
You own computer through which you can remote control your Server.

Steps to enable remote access on Ubuntu server

If you purchased VPS hosting then open you SSH terminal with root access.To get root access use the following command.

sudo su

This will login you as root to check whether you logged in with root access or not type whoami in the terminal if you get reply as root,then you logged in as root otherwise follow the step again or contact you hosting provider.

Then you have to install xrdp to remote access your server.To install xrdp on your server use the command.

sudo apt-get install xrdp

Then you will get information about package size enter Y to continue.Just wait for the completion.
After that you have to install xfce4 Desktop Environment.To install xfce4 use the command.