EC2 Instance from Image on M71-flex extra large — can’t connect to xrdp

xrdp is running…now what?

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I wrote about some issues with xrdp on this host.

Magically the next day it worked. I didn’t do anything except start the instance again.

Ubuntu Instance On AWS M7i-flex — goes black — no VPC Flow Logs — hangs in stopping state

Update…fixed connection issue in this post but still looking into snakeoil certs in the above post.

xrdp only listening on IPv6 — hangs on configuring remote pc

Today I made an image of that instance and started in on an M7i-flex extra large. I can’t login via xrdp. I logged in via SSH and verified that xrdp is running. I cannot figure out what is…