[TriLUG] Remote Desktop Woes

[Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG]

remmina uses FreeRDP as the backend.  You could try running xfreerdp from
the command line to figure out more because remmina does not support all of
the options the xfreerdp command does,

For my work I had to do this.  I needed to compile the master branch from
git and run from the commandline to negotiate a the tls gateway in.
Actually now a days I have a python script I use for this that prompts for
my password and then builds the command line for me to run.

Ken

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Considering the recent weather event, I decided that today would be a good
> day to try to work remotely.  For the last several hours, I have been
> attempting to establish a remote desktop session and have been running
> into a real head scratcher.
>
> The linux box that I want to remote into is running Centos 7 and is
> integrated into (joined) an Active Directory domain. It successfully
> performs AD authentication and when I am at my workstation on the LAN
> running Ubuntu, Remmina will establish a remote desktop connection just
> fine.
>
> Working remotely from home, I am connected via the VPN. I can "hit" the
> machine on the network, but I can't seem to get a remote desktop
> connection directly to it.
>
> What DOES work is that I am able to establish a remote desktop connection
> to one of the Windows servers and from there use the (windows) Remote
> Desktop Client to pull up the Centos 7 desktop and authenticate using my
> AD credentials just fine.  I just can't go directly from the Linux box
> over the VPN.
>
> I have tried KRDC, Remmina, and Vinagre, all of which simply fail with a
> generic error message; except KRDC first asks for a user and then a
> password, but it always fails (the password is correct).
>
> I am not sure how to even troubleshoot or log the issue.  All I get is a
> "that did not work" message, which is very windows-esque.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions?
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