Re: session redirection and load balancing on server 2008-R2

Hi all,

"Session redirection and load balancing on server 2008-R2"

Has anyone found a fix for this yet, or have any suggestions for a fix yet.

I'm planning at spending some time over the weekend looking at this
and have booked some time in a test lab on Wednesday to test a fix
against 2003, 2008 and 2008-R2 if we have one by then (just to make
sure it works and hasn't broke anything else)


I also had a conversation with someone yesterday who told me that some
of the well known thin client manufacturers (you know who you are)
have linux-based devices that are working properly with 2008 R2
session broker/redirection.

1) Can anybody else confirm this?

2) Would any of these well known thin client manufacturers like to
step-up and give these modifications back to the community please (as
required by the GPL you are distributing it under)?

3) Has this ever happened before, is there a precedent we should
follow if any GPL violations are confirmed?

Best regards,

Jason_Meers


On 19 March 2010 13:42, Jason Meers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi When the following fix is implemented on the current SVN version of rdesktop:
>
> In line 977 of ./rdesktop/trunk/rdesktop.c
>
> - STRNCPY(g_username, g_redirect_username, sizeof(g_username));
> + STRNCPY(g_username, g_redirect_username, strlen(g_username) + 1);
>
> It doesn't completely solve the problem.
>
> For example if you login as:
> DOMAIN\USERNAME
>
> The redirected session only receives something like:
> DOMAIN\USE
>
> After applying the fix it only gives us one more char such as:
> DOMAIN\USER
>
> So the current SVN code is not correctly determining the correct
> length and value of the redirected DOMAIN\USERNAME to provide,
> resulting in it not working transparently and sometimes requiring the
> user to re-login twice.
>
> From looking at ./rdesktop/trunk/rdesktop.c I am also wondering if
> some of the other fields would also get truncated as the code looks
> very similar.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jason_Meers
>

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