[TriLUG] Remote Desktop Woes

[Dewey Hylton via TriLUG]

i'd definitely be interested in seeing the config files ... i have this on my
to-look-at list, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

----- On Jan 9, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion trilug at trilug.org wrote:

> Matt,
> 
> Any chance of installing “guacamole” on your Linux box to see if that would
> work?  http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org
> <http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/>
> 
> It only takes a few minutes to setup (I can send you my config files).  I use it
> to launch MS RDP sessions, Linux CLI sessions, and Linux VNC Sessions.  Best of
> all, it is done over HTML-5 browser (chrome).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 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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