Re: rdesktop terminates with broken pipe trying to login to Windows 7 Professional

On 2012-08-21 20:09, [email protected] wrote:
> So I have an ssh tunnel setup from a Windows 7 Professional machine
> to a Linux machine. The forwarded port shows up just fine on the 
> Linux
> machine:
>
>     $ netstat -tln
>     Active Internet connections (only servers)
>     Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address       
>  State
>     tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:3389          0.0.0.0:*
>  LISTEN
>     ...
>     tcp6       0      0 ::1:3389                :::*
>  LISTEN
>
> When I try to rdesktop to the Windows machine on the other end the
> login screen comes up just fine, but when I hit enter after typing 
> the
> username and password I get this:
>
>     $ rdesktop localhost
>     Autoselected keyboard map en-us
>     WARNING: Remote desktop does not support colour depth 24; falling
> back to 16
>     #[I enter valid user name and password here. welcome screen with
> little spinning circle is shown in the rdesktop window. But then:]
>     ERROR: Connection closed
>     ERROR: send: Broken pipe
>     ERROR: Connection closed
>     ERROR: Connection closed
>     ERROR: send: Broken pipe
>     $ echo $?
>     63
>
> The ssh tunnel is still up just fine. I can try again.
>
> I have no idea how to proceed to make this work. Help please.
>
> Both machines are dual monitor setups, if by any chance that matters.

I just tried specifying to ipv4 and that error is a little more 
verbose.

     $ rdesktop -4 localhost
     Autoselected keyboard map en-us
     WARNING: Remote desktop does not support colour depth 24; falling 
back to 16
     NOT IMPLEMENTED: System pointer message 0x7f00
     ERROR: Connection closed
     ERROR: send: Broken pipe
     ERROR: send: Broken pipe
     ERROR: Connection closed
     ERROR: Connection closed
     ERROR: send: Broken pipe
     X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
       Major opcode of failed request:  23 (X_GetSelectionOwner)
       Atom id in failed request:  0x0
       Serial number of failed request:  1976
       Current serial number in output stream:  1976


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