A method for sending a cloud server address to a desktop cloud terminal, where a terminal management server receives a request message from a desktop cloud terminal, obtains, by means of parsing, an address of the desktop cloud terminal carried in the request message, queries a mapping table according to the address of the desktop cloud terminal, acquires an address of a cloud server accessible to the desktop cloud terminal, generates a request response message, and sends the request response message to the desktop cloud terminal, where the request response message carries the address of the cloud server accessible to the desktop cloud terminal. Therefore a system administrator does not need to manually configure the cloud server address on the terminal management server for the desktop cloud terminal, and a desktop cloud terminal user does not need to manually configure the desktop cloud terminal.