Re: rdesktop and windows server 2008

On Friday 07 Aug 2009, Sarosh Jamal wrote:
> I've gone ahead and re-activated my WTS license server and installed per
> device CALs and am operating in per device licensing mode.

I thought it only worked with per user licensing, but I could be wrong, you 
need to Google.

> I'm still experiencing the same error when trying to connect to the WTS.
> What do you suppose I'm doing wrong?

I "think" that this is because rdesktop does not support the latest version of 
the RDP protocol in Windows 2008.  There have been a number of posts about 
this, but I wasn't paying attention.  I think you just need to downgrade the 
security level of RDP on your Windows server.  You might need to 
disable "Network Level Authentification", but I am guessing, and your best 
bet will be google "rdesktop "windows 2008"".  Googling your error message 
also seemed to get a lot of hits around the same topic.

I would also make sure you are on a recent rdesktop version 1.6+.

And don't forget to review the event log on the Windows server, particularly 
the security log - might give some clues.

Sorry my response is largely passing you back to Google, but given the lack of 
response on this list, I felt that my very poor reply might be better than 
nothing.  Hopefully someone will come back with something more useful.

Good luck.

Chris Roberts

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