shared clipboard with terminal server client on ubuntu

October 4th, 2007

If you use the Terminal Server Client to connect to a Windows host (like Windows 2000 server or Windows XP) you may experience problems copying from local host and pasting to the remote host, and vice versa. The most likely is that you use the wrong connection protocol. Make sure that you set RDPv5 in Protocol:

terminal server client login screen


This fixed the clipboard sharing between my Ubuntu and a Windows 2000 Advanced Server. You have nothing to lose if you try it too.

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4 Responses to “shared clipboard with terminal server client on ubuntu”

  1. Anthony Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 9:56 pm I've been looking for this for ever!!! , FYI this also works with synergy shared machines!!!
  2. Vincent Says:
    June 9th, 2008 at 1:45 pm This also works on a Win 2003 server.
    Thanks a lot for the tip, saves a lot of time!
  3. Scott Says:
    January 21st, 2009 at 2:45 am oddly enough my experience has been the exact opposite on dapper, edgy, intrepid, and several versions of fedora. The ~/.tsclient/servername.rdp file needs to have the line protocol:i:4 is the standard "rdp" protocol rather than the "rdpv5" protocol. Either way, testing both of the protocols should result in a working clipboard.
  4. Dave Says:
    April 21st, 2010 at 11:06 pm If you already have a bunch of .RDP files (generally under ~/.tsclient), you can do this by editing each one of them in gedit and changing the protocol from 0 to 4

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