Remote desktop connection to Ubuntu from PC with windows 7 on Alibaba Cloud

[TimoHa]

Can somebody please explain How can I connect from my desktop to my Ubuntu cloud instance? What VNC viewer program should I use? I tried thightvncserver witch I used with Digital Ocean but with no succes on Alibaba. Thank you for any help!

[Andrea1701]

You can not access any linux ECS with RDP.
You have to use ssh to connect to ECS.


Download and install "putty".

Enter ECS public IP and select ssh port 22. Enter username and password

From mac you can use terminal

ssh root@pubic-IP

Enter root password