[TriLUG] Remote Desktop Woes

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

I take that ssh'ing into machine and then running vnc inside that tunnel is
not an option, right?

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
> wrote:

> 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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