#776726 rdesktop 1.8.2-3 fails to connect to Windows Server 2008

Package:
rdesktop
Source:
rdesktop
Description:
RDP client for Windows NT/2000 Terminal Server and Windows Servers
Submitter:
Alois Schlögl
Date:
2017-12-01 11:57:03 UTC
Severity:
important
#776726#5
Date:
2015-01-31 20:02:11 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,


trying to connect to a Windows Server 2008 using this command
  rdesktop -n -f -u "IST\\schloegl" win2008.domain

did not open a connection but reports this message
   It ERROR: CredSSP: Initialize failed, do you have
   correct kerberos tgt initialized ?
   Connection established using SSL.
   disconnect: Invalid licensing message.

and a windows is briefly opened and disappears immediately, so no message can
be read.

The problem seems to be related to the version in testing (rdesktop 1.8.2-3)
only. 1.7.1-1 (stable) as well as 1.8.3-1 (unstable) do open a connection to
the same server.
#776726#10
Date:
2015-02-03 21:26:32 UTC
From:
To:
control: severity -1 important
thanks

Does the workaround in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763599 work?
#776726#17
Date:
2015-06-15 19:21:38 UTC
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To:

No, this is not working for me. After doing

    apt-get source rdesktop

  cd rdesktop-1.8.2 && ./configure --disable-credssp --disable-smartcard && make

  ~/rdesktop-1.8.2$ ./rdesktop myserver.win7_2008.local

There is still no remote connection.

The problem after installing rdesktop from testing
   sudo apt-get -t testing install rdesktop

Then
  rdesktop myserver.win7_2008.local

opens the desired connection; although it still presents the following message on the terminal.


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Connection established using SSL.
disconnect: Invalid licensing message.


  Alois
#776726#22
Date:
2017-12-01 11:46:04 UTC
From:
To:
Hello Alois,

in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763599 (Nov. 2016) I found a solution for connection problems to Windows 2008 R2 (disconnect: Invalid licensing message). A newer version solved the problem. After this we got crash to connect to older Windows 2003 R2 (segfaults/ Speicherzugriffsfehler). With the old version for jessie we can connect successful. But in this case we got no connection to Win 2008 R2 any more. The solution for this is to install the original version from https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop. Now we can connect to older and newer versions of windows. But the version from git has a other bug if you start rdesktop without console. This we solved and now you can download the package from http://debian.b-c-s.net/dists/bcs/bcs/binary-amd64/x11/rdesktop_1.8.3-bcs_amd64.deb
I hope the package solves your problem and you can close the bug.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Carsten Burkhardt