Control A Windows PC With A Raspberry Pi - All You Need To Know

Folks, there's a new 8 GB Raspberry Pi out there! These things are getting very powerful for there size! And that means more things you can do with them! One of those things is remoting into a Windows PC and using its resources. This is known as a "thin client". A "thin client" is a small computer that's basically used for the sole purpose of connecting to a more powerful remote computer. So in this video, we're going to take a Raspberry Pi and turn it into a thin client for a remote Windows computer!
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[@layth888]

omg its been 5 years since I last seen ur vids

[@tristagoodspeed4200]

Really easy to follow, clear and concise. Thank you!

[@lambstream]

Great to see another video

[@DJTRUST256]

Awesome as always I've learnt a lot from you

[@MsCarla59]

Very Neat. And you sidestepped the whole topic of running Windows on RPi natively

[@nitzkit]

Excellent video!

[@sukalpashrestha61]

holy shit its been years ive seen your videos but damn this exactly what i needed. u r awesome dude

[@nrnoble]

Thanks. Learned something new today. The only complaint that I have is that you don't make videos frequently enough, :) However, I rather you continue making high quality videos than drop the production quality which I am sure requires a lot more work (many hours\days) than most people realize.

[@fishfacemaster09]

Great work!

[@angelakied]

Amazing video, more than i was looking for, new sub thabkyou

[@donyodonev5423]

Like the most helpful video, respect, very well explained!!!

[@dmisi1]

this is an EXCELLENT an USEFULL tutorial

[@yv6eda]

Nice! Thanks!

[@MrTijdelijkenaam]

I feel like the security aspect should have been stressed way more. But this is some good Tinkernut content like in ye olden days!

[@courtappointedaudio4549]

Great video, it fits my use case perfectly. And if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.

[@ThirumaleshHS1]

It’s been a long time😊

[@Krisseck]

Cool tutorial! XRDP is such an useful piece of software

[@GeoNeilUK]

Isn't XRDP for alloweing Windows PCs to connect to Linux servers using the built in Remote Desktop Client?

[@jazzmastaj]

Comments made me too scared to do port forwarding on my router, opted for chrome remote desktop instead. Usability seems to be defined by up/download speeds of the networks your connected to with your "mainframe" and "terminal" machines. Thanks for vid!

[@michaelbroderick1673]

Good video I use windows fx

[@OffGridAussiePrepper]

Oi Mr tinkerer how do u make the pi start the windows pc first then log into it??? some of us cant afford to waste power leaving the pc/server run all the time. Excellent job btw.

[@MrLeonardoibarra]

Great content, good to see your videos again! Another neat thing you can do is setup Wake on Lan in the windows PC with a DNS server so that you can turn it on over the internet. I've been playing around with Pi 3b+ and the Parsec software to play games remotely, but i've got some performance issues (lag in the video decoding maybe) so far. There's also Moonlight for this purpose but i didnt test it yet. How did the latency feel on your setup? did it feel 'usable'?

[@marcelo_luz]

Hi Leonardo, could you please enlighte me if I can achieve 4k resolution with Rpi in the Windows remote access?

[@MrLeonardoibarra]

@@marcelo_luz I believe you cannot, rpi 3b+ (the one i had) supports a max. of 1080p, and it`s probably going to be laggy if you use that resolution with Parsec (the remote access software i used), rpi 4 probably supports 4k but it is not compatible with Parsec yet, so you would need to find another option.

[@marcelo_luz]

@@MrLeonardoibarra very enlightening, thanks!

[@marcelo_luz]

I will try another options like mini PCs with x86 processors.

[@abutimmy3743]

Hey tinkernut I have a imitation entertainer hdd multimedia player and I was curious if this could be made to run as a android tv box .... you up for the challenge????

[@mezzadev6642]

You should make a video about compilers or interpreters

[@ProWilson999]

When I RDP to a Windows machine on Debian based Linux distros, I use Remmina as I can add multiple computers and customise all sorts of settings on an easy to use GUI. It works and looks similar to the Remote Desktop Client Microsoft made for macOS.

[@sathishheartly]

But it the performance is poor

[@WeatherWX]

So I've actually been looking into this as I have a homelab and old laptops laying around. Basically what i wanted was a FOSS version of Dell WYSE and I think the best way for me was make a custom debian os. However someone from China made a CentOS version called JYOS which basically has everything that I wanted. Only issue, needs a license key. Maybe one day though.. Right? Shouldn't be too hard.

[@christosv.4025]

Thanx for your tutorial I have an error mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/pi/.config/autostart’: No such file or directory I use the new Raspberry Pi OS and not the raspbian. Can you help me with that error? Thanx in advanced

[@jasonluong3862]

Can the command line including the various switches be made into a file that people simply open so they don’t have to type the characters in the terminal? Is there something like an equivalent of a Windows batch file in Raspbian?

[@ishanchourey2252]

can we use two 4gb pi's to run this kind of windows machine? or even ubuntu will do but I want a full desktop environment.

[@SergioSantamaria]

What package to use to have RDP with 2 screens? Obviously in RPi

[@ambulocetusnatans]

Hey, I was reading about a guy who set up his car with multiple webcams and microphones to monitor everything that happens in and around the car. Sort of a dashcam on steroids. The footage was sent to the cloud so that it couldn't be tampered with, in case he got killed during a carjacking or something. When I read this I thought it would be good project for you to a video on. It's beyond my skills, but I know you can do it.

[@lpfigue]

I did this same thing using remmina.

[@rolandjefferson8599]

hey, i'm abit late but do you still need to port forward with using remote desktop ?

[@mttkl]

So, I'm trying to do something similar here. I want to put my main desktop on another room and use a cheap laptop connected to both of my monitors. Is there a good way of remoting into my desktop with great performance? Using both monitors on the host PC would be cool too, as I would only be using the laptop as a thin client. Back when I was using Windows, RDP was marvellous on the local network and the performance was almost identical to being connected directly. But this time I'll be using a Linux distro on *both* machines. I've already tried VNC a lot of times, but the performance of both image and input is horrible. I think RDP is HW accelerated? I plan on doing some gaming, but mainly just programming and internet browsing. I *might* be able to connect the monitors directly, only need a long DVI cable. Any help is appreciated.

[@GeoNeilUK]

RDP is only accelerated on Windows, meanwhile on Linux, I can't think of any remoting system that uses hardware acceleration, though I could be wrong. I use X2GO, but that won't be good enough for gaming. You could try Nomachine.

[@mttkl]

@@GeoNeilUK Thanks, I'll try NoMachine then.

[@dw6528]

Through what pathway is the RPi connected to the PC? Is the RPi connected to the PC by CAT5 cable? Is the RPi connected to the PC via wifi?

[@user-er5ut8nz1y]

Is there any other solution for remote desktop to W10? I want to work remotly, but this is to slow :/

[@BrickTamlandOfficial]

You're better off enabling chrome remote desktop that way it is tied to your google account login and you can do 2 factor authenticate so your connection is harder to hack. also you don't need to change any settings just install chrome remote desktop and add a pin, then input the pin on the pi to login to the windows machine.

[@nomorecensorship2815]

How many remote connections are possible simultaneously?

[@mohammadaman175]

I read it “dumb terminal” in my text book from my software engineering course 10 years ago

[@undesiredshoe]

Followed this video and when I get to the enter username, domain and password part, it won't allow me to type in a password and then gives me an error

[@lukeh990]

I like to use VNC because it was preinstalled on my pi

[@Tinkernut]

Yes, but then you have to install it on Windows...so it's either use the built in Pi client or the built in Windows client.

[@palmtree7659]

would this only work if the raspberry pi is on the same network as the pc?

[@grogfpv35]

Next step. Can you game on that thing. ;)

[@ReginaldoOrnellas]

I made all like explained, with same messages, with no errors, exactly how shown here, but when i reboot the script is not being executed. Any idea what might be going on?

[@HDBSD]

I will say you should never port forward RDP, you should always publish services like this via RD Gateway or via ssh tunneling

[@mauricenorden3665]

true, my hyper-v virtual machine got hacked because of that

[@BenReese]

I was about to comment the exact same thing! Use another Pi to host PiVPN. Run a VPN server on a VM on windows. Use ZeroTier... But never port forward RDP.

[@andrewhoyle1889]

Some dumb questions as new to this and you seem to know what you are talking about ;). Is the video an example of port forwarding as i had read this had security issues? I would like to remote connect to my home PC from a clients location (outside LAN) and I am looking for the best / most secure way to do this. I did purchase Express VPN (was rated highly) but they do not support remote access. All assistance will be massively appreciated. Cheers

[@gavintantleff]

What about NAT punching?

[@CrankyCoder]

Anyone watching this video!!!! Please do not forward RDP. This is screaming for your machine to get hacked. Please do pivpn, openvpn, rdp gateway, something! but rdp on public internet. You will be surprised how fast that machine and tons of other stuff on your network will be compromised. The use of the pi as a thin client is a GREAT concept on your network. Not over the open internet.

[@pantheruler]

Hello. I'm getting a logon failure error even though the password is type in is correct. What am I doing wrong? Also I thought weird that it doesn't ask me for my username, it goes directly to domain and then password

[@axelhamlington2235]

Is it similar to screen mirroring?

[@maxwelzig]

What is the latency between the pi and the actual pc?

[@jamesrockford5145]

3. 14159

[@bengouws]

@@jamesrockford5145 :-)

[@Win52D]

Well done. Perfect for my needs. Suggestion, talk slower and allow more time to the commands you enter to be displayed. This is not a race..,.you are trying to teach...take your time!!!

[@andyhutch1947]

I am a Mac guy and is there a way I can use my iMac to program the Raspberry pi?

[@sirji7137]

Sir unable to install freerdp2-x11 In my raspberry pi 3 Error is E: package not found What should I do Please reply 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@queerzard]

Is dualmonitor possible?

[@pilovali]

Use something like ZeroTier and don't open any ports on your router.

[@PileofKyle]

ZeroTier is awesome

[@CodingWithBen]

It can genuinely run it. Like natively

[@nathankatz2529]

it would be nice for a windows emulator to run obd software .

[@Rijndael1998]

Next thing to do is to have multiple sessions on the same Windows machine.

[@habibarrasyid8186]

How about Parsec ?

[@MrNewMuse]

you can ssh in windows 10 home now. just download the new terminal

[@TheDexterFishbourne]

Going to do this for my kid. Give her a pi, monitor, keyboard and mouse. Host the WIn10 instance on my server with auto snapshots. Then can restore if she accidently messes something up.

[@mystifyingdude]

U can use windows IoT

[@vhmanoel]

Here appears "no user name set. - using login name: pi", someone can help me?

[@metecansoyoz3734]

Hey i did this. xfreerdp /v:server_ip /d:domain_name /u:user_name /p:password

[@fabianboshoven6146]

Why you dont use vnc server and vnc viewer

[@Tinkernut]

Because RDP works better on Windows machines and doesn't require any extra software.

[@oniruddhoalam2039]

Can you run windows 10 ARM on an rpi?

[@KafeelGamer]

Which password i will give my Microsoft account password or my password that i use in lock screen

[@vijayreddyr]

Just use WoR(windows in raspberry)

[@SysAdmin42]

Please please do something like zerotier or wireguard rdp to public is dangerous

[@cguy8998]

Couldn’t you do this much easier with team viewer or something

[@steliosfk]

I searched for the opposite, why did this come up

[@derstrom8]

Uploaded 8 seconds ago!

[@endoflevelboss]

The "retro filter" over the entire tutorial sucks. Could have disabled it while showing the individual steps. Is it so important that sections where we need to see details are stylised like the intro? some people are ****ing mental 🙄

[@CodingWithBen]

Try TeamViewer lol…

[@saidamodar6260]

vnc

[@eduardbolchi7672]

Would have been nice to show ig off a bit? Can you game? Watch youtube?...

[@Romgenas]

So, to be happy, i need to install a spy software on my devices😂👍

[@NicholasMaietta]

You are wrong. There are no 8GB models left. They are once again, all sold out. I am just trying to get 1. Just 1. I can't and I will not be paying for the price gouging ones available on Amazon or eBay.

[@SMASHINGblargharghar]

If you live near a Microcenter, you can get one for $75. I snagged one yesterday.

[@blakryptonite1]

unless if you're gaming, doing heavy duty content creation, or running enterprise software, there's no reason to even use windows. every software on windows has a cleaner and free alternative on linux.

[@generalwhine5350]

Really easy to follow, clear and concise. Thank you!