If you’re looking for a reliable and easy-to-use remote desktop application, RustDesk is an excellent option. It’s open-source software that allows you to access your desktop from anywhere in the world. In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of setting up RustDesk on your server. We’ll cover everything from server deployment to installation on Ubuntu.

RustDesk Server Setup Ubutu Server

Follow below instructions

First of all update the server

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Incase you also want to upgrade the distribution then you can use the command below

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Now allow ports to Server

Next, download the RustDesk server binary using the following command:

How to Install the server

Please setup your firewall on your server prior to running the script.

Make sure you have got access via ssh or otherwise setup prior setting up the firewall, command for UFW is:

ufw allow proto tcp from YOURIP to any port 22

If you have UFW installed use the following commands:

ufw allow 21115:21119/tcp
ufw allow 8000/tcp
ufw allow 21116/udp
sudo ufw enable

Run the following commands:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dinger1986/rustdeskinstall/master/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

Rustdesk windows powershell install script

Generates a powershell script for install grabbing WAN IP and Key currently in /opt/rustdesk but will be moved to a web url for easy deployment.

Tips

If you want to restart the services use the following commands:

sudo systemctl restart rustdesksignal
sudo systemctl restart rustdeskrelay

Client Installation

Before we proceed, make sure that your server has ports open

TCP Ports 21115:21119 and 8000 for http

UDP Port 21116

Now After above Installation, your system is ready. You can now download the client Installation Script using the link of the server which will be displayed once the installation is completed in my case it was as below;

http://rustdesk.syncbricks.com:8000

You will download the script and run that in your computer. For Active Directly you can assign the script to run for all the users.

This is PowerShell Script and needs unrestricted access for unsigned application and then you must restart.

How to Enable windowsagentaioinstall.ps1

The file name for PowerShell will be windowsagentaioinstall.ps1 which is not digitally signed. Your need to allow execution Policy in Windows PowerShell

Windows Execution Policy

First of all you will need to check the execution Policy in windows , run below code in PowerShell to check

Get-ExecutionPolicy - List

If the policies are restricted you can either set to unrestricted or Undefiined

to Unrestrict the policy for various scopes you can use below command

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope Process

To Unrestrict the policy and force

Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force

To bypass the policy which will not ask for the confirmation

Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass

To restrict the policy again

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Restricted -Scope LocalMachine

Once the policies are unrestricted then restart the computer and run the script again