Uncommon problems with RDP, clipboard and Windows

Hi Y'all,

Great product. I'm pretty sure I have a generally RDP problem and not
something specific to rdesktop, but I'm trying to use rdesktop and need
some advice.

I can't get any rdp client to copy and paste from Fedora to Windows, trying
every high-level thing I could think of or could find in search results.
All the other functionality seems fine.

*** Windows 7, copying from Linux and trying to paste in Windows 7 rdp
session is not successful, and crashes Microsoft products like Outlook,
Write and Sticky Notes.

*** Windows XP, copying from Linux and trying to paste into an rdp WinXP
session, I get the 1) kill/start rdpclip 2) It works at least once, 3)
rdpclip goes into high cpu state. 4) pasting becomes dodgy. Repeatable.

I think it's time to fire up Wireshark, but I'm not familiar with the rdp
protocol(s). Or, what do you all think?

Details:

I have a 4-monitor Fedora 17 desktop running KDE. I don't think I have
anything fancy running on it.

1. Same behavior using rdesktop, xfreerdb, vinagre, krc. rdesktop is my
preferred client, so I'm here!
2. Same behavior with Fedora 13 & Fedora 17 connecting to WinXP.
3. I'm aware that WinXP has a different clipboard api than Windows 7. I'm
trying to ditch WinXP and don't care if it ever works, but it may be useful
to help debug this issue.
4. My company uses a lot of multicast and could have messed something up in
an attempt to be secure on Windows, but not likely messed to much with
Fedora.

Some of the debugging I've done (too much before coming here, I believe):

(0. Scoured the web via DuckDuckGo and Google.)
1. Checked various registry entries
2. Tried many permutations of rdesktop arguments including
-r:clipboard:PRIMARYCLIPBOARD, etc.
3. Tried several anecdotal fixes on the web.
4. Messed around with klipper and any other setting on Fedora I could find.
5. Built rdesktop with --with-debug-clipboard. I then tryed to paste into
the rdp session - result was: no output for Win7, copious infinite loop
type output for WinXP:

Win7:

$ ~/work/c/rdesktop-1.7.1/rdesktop -x lan -g 2800x1100 -5 -K -d acme -u
jdoe -p 'xxxx' <win7 ip address>
Autoselected keyboard map en-us
WARNING: Remote desktop does not support colour depth 24; falling back to 16
<paste>

Win XP:

$ (~/work/c/rdesktop-1.7.1/rdesktop -r sound:local -x lan -g 2800x1100 -5
-K -r clipboard:CLIPBOARD -0 -u jdoe -p 'xxxx' <winXP ip address> & ) &&
sleep 3 && killall -9 rdesktop
Autoselected keyboard map en-us
WARNING: Remote desktop does not support colour depth 24; falling back to 16
CLIPRDR recv: type=1, status=0, length=0
Probing selections.
xclip_handle_SelectionNotify: selection=CLIPBOARD, target=TARGETS,
property=_RDESKTOP_CLIPBOARD_TARGET
Target 0: TIMESTAMP
Target 1: TARGETS
Target 2: MULTIPLE
Target 3: SAVE_TARGETS
Target 4: text/rtf
Target 5: TEXT/RTF
Target 6: application/rtf
Target 7: UTF8_STRING
Other party supports UTF8_STRING, choosing that as best_target
Target 8: COMPOUND_TEXT
Target 9: STRING
Unable to find a textual target to satisfy RDP clipboard text request
Unable to find suitable target. Using default text format.
cliprdr_send_simple_native_format_announce
cliprdr_send_native_format_announce
CLIPRDR send: type=2, status=0, length=36
CLIPRDR recv: type=2, status=0, length=0
CLIPRDR send: type=3, status=1, length=0
xclip_handle_SelectionRequest: selection=CLIPBOARD, target=TARGETS,
property=_QT_SELECTION
xclip_provide_selection: requestor=0x02000009, target=TARGETS,
property=_QT_SELECTION, length=8
xclip_handle_SelectionRequest: selection=CLIPBOARD, target=TARGETS,
property=GDK_SELECTION
xclip_provide_selection: requestor=0x05800d03, target=TARGETS,
property=GDK_SELECTION, length=8
CLIPRDR recv: type=3, status=1, length=0
CLIPRDR recv: type=4, status=0, length=4
Request from server for format 13
xclip_handle_SelectionRequest: selection=CLIPBOARD, target=TARGETS,
property=_RDESKTOP_CLIPBOARD_TARGET
xclip_provide_selection: requestor=0x03000002, target=TARGETS,
property=_RDESKTOP_CLIPBOARD_TARGET, length=8
xclip_handle_SelectionNotify: selection=CLIPBOARD, target=TARGETS,
property=_RDESKTOP_CLIPBOARD_TARGET
Target 0: TARGETS
Target 1: TIMESTAMP
Target 2: _RDESKTOP_NATIVE
Target 3: _RDESKTOP_CLIPBOARD_FORMATS
Target 4: UTF8_STRING
Other party supports UTF8_STRING, choosing that as best_target
Target 5: text/unicode
Target 6: STRING
Target 7: STRING
xclip_handle_SelectionRequest: selection=CLIPBOARD, target=UTF8_STRING,
property=_RDESKTOP_CLIPBOARD_TARGET
cliprdr_send_data_request
CLIPRDR send: type=4, status=0, length=4
CLIPRDR recv: type=5, status=2, length=0
xclip_refuse_selection: requestor=0x03000002, target=UTF8_STRING,
property=_RDESKTOP_CLIPBOARD_TARGET
cliprdr_send_data
CLIPRDR send: type=5, status=1, length=0
cliprdr_send_simple_native_format_announce
cliprdr_send_native_format_announce
CLIPRDR send: type=2, status=0, length=36
CLIPRDR recv: type=4, status=0, length=4
Request from server for format 13
CLIPRDR recv: type=3, status=2, length=0
cliprdr_send_native_format_announce
CLIPRDR send: type=2, status=0, length=36
xclip_handle_SelectionRequest: selection=CLIPBOARD, target=TARGETS,
property=_RDESKTOP_CLIPBOARD_TARGET
xclip_provide_selection: requestor=0x03000002, target=TARGETS,
property=_RDESKTOP_CLIPBOARD_TARGET, length=8
CLIPRDR recv: type=4, status=0, length=4
Request from server for format 13
xclip_handle_SelectionNotify: selection=CLIPBOARD, target=TARGETS,
property=_RDESKTOP_CLIPBOARD_TARGET
Unable to find a textual target to satisfy RDP clipboard text request
cliprdr_send_data
CLIPRDR send: type=5, status=1, length=0
cliprdr_send_simple_native_format_announce
cliprdr_send_native_format_announce
CLIPRDR send: type=2, status=0, length=36
xclip_handle_SelectionRequest: selection=CLIPBOARD, target=TARGETS,
property=_RDESKTOP_CLIPBOARD_TARGET
xclip_provide_selection: requestor=0x03000002, target=TARGETS,
property=_RDESKTOP_CLIPBOARD_TARGET, length=8
CLIPRDR recv: type=3, status=2, length=0
cliprdr_send_native_format_announce
CLIPRDR send: type=2, status=0, length=36
CLIPRDR recv: type=4, status=0, length=4
Request from server for format 13
xclip_handle_SelectionNotify: selection=CLIPBOARD, target=TARGETS,
property=_RDESKTOP_CLIPBOARD_TARGET

...ad infinitum - Not sure if I've captured the interesting parts when I
pasted.

Sincerely,
Sean

Sean Blanton
[email protected]

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