What is the Windoof? (==Windows?) I can't touch the remote windows server, I even don't know which room it stays. only provided by the right to access and the hostname. I contacted the administrator today and being informed the following information: "There is nothing wrong with Server. I’ve just checked. I presume you are using the rdesktop? The rDesktop application you are using is somehow unable to use the latest RDP protocol 6 and is recommended for best experience and hence it failed. MS has done quite a bit of changes to the protocol and the client application has not caught up for linux. "
Actually it worked on and off, so I don't think it's the protocol issue. Sometimes if I was lucky I could connect, sometimes not. > There's no reported bugs of that nature for grdesktop. > > Possible causes:- > ;Problem with the Windoof machine (firewall settings, permissions, rdp > session invite expired, ip address) > ;Problem with resolving the Windoof hostname to an IP address > ;Problem with the rdesktop or grdesktop packages > > Check the Windoof machine if you can - if access was via an "invite", > generate a fresh invite, if possible reboot Windoof. > > If you don't know the Windoof machine IP address try using ping (as root in > a terminal window) to convert the Windoof hostname into a ip address) > I got the same IP address not matter as root or user during ping hostname. Try connecting with grdesktop using the ip address instead of the hostname. > If the Windoof machine is not on the same sub-net this won't necessarily > work. > It has the same problem when used the IP address. There is also some other distracting warnings here I did not post before, such as: WARNING: initializing sound-support failed! WARNING: Remote desktop does not support colour depth 24; falling back to 16 NOT IMPLEMENTED: system pointer message0x7f00 WARNING: server sent an unexpectedly long string, truncating WARNING: rdp_in_unistr: iconv fail, errno 84 Please ignore those warnings, cause I donot need sound and colour depth and else. > Post your results - if you are still having problems we can use rdesktop to > pinpoint the problem. > Also (I should have asked earlier) is the Windoof machine on the same > sub-net? > I guess so, probably on the same sub-net. but I don't know how to check. > If it's not - is it behind a stand-alone firewall/router? > I am not so sure. > Are you enabling encryption? > > > > Hope you're not in a hurry (other's can assist) - I'll be back in the > morning. Thanks, > > > Cheers > > -- > "I'm just so sick of airports, sitting on planes on runways and the > planes won't take off. > Every time I read about a hijacking on the news I just think to myself > - just do it - let's see how far you get, I paid and didn't get off the > ground. > I've thought about that too - dreamed of it - putting a gun to the > pilot's head. That would feel so good. > "this is a hijacking" > "where do you want to go - Cuba?" > "No, I want to go where this plane was supposed to be five hours ago" > That's right, I'm hijacking this plane to it's scheduled destination." > — Bill Hicks > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-user-REQUEST@lists.**debian.org<debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org>with > a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/**4e60dac8.9060...@gmail.com<http://lists.debian.org/4e60dac8.9060...@gmail.com> > >
