Gnome-rdp (re-post)

[Lawrence Graves]

On 07/02/2012 08:36 AM, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 09:57 -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
>
>>> OK - I was able to test inside the building today. Using my Linux (F17)
>>> laptop, and getting a DHCP assigned IP address. Ping works to all hosts
>>> normally, and I am also able to resolve all DNS host names as expected.
>>>
>>> RDP sessions still fail however. They either connect and hang after a
>>> few seconds, or they simply don't connect at all. It's exactly the same
>>> symptoms as when connected via the VPN. Clearly, there's some sort of
>>> issue with both gnome-rdp and Reminna.
>> If two separate apps are experience the same problem, then that tells me
>> it's not them but what they have in common (the server in this case)
>> might be the problem.
>>
>> Can you connect to the RDP servers using a Windows box?
> Yes - Windows 7 clients, both physical and virtual, do indeed connect
> successfully (note that there are actually roughly 11 different Windows
> servers we're dealing with internally). They can connect successfully
> either locally inside the building or remotely when using the Cisco VPN
> Client for Windows. We're using a traditional Cisco ipsec style VPN
> configuration here. All connections, VPN and RDP, remain stable.
>
> The Linux systems use the same VPN configuration profile as the Windows
> boxes. In fact, I exported the configuration profile from a working
> Windows 7 system and imported it for use on the Linux systems. So the
> same configuration profile that works on the Windows machines fails on
> Linux machines when using Network Manager / vpnc.
>
> Further, our testing shows that, when using Linux systems inside the
> building (and thus not using the VPN), the rdp sessions using either
> Reminna or gnome-rdp will hang after a short time and sometimes fail to
> connect at all.
>
> Thus, my point there are apparently multiple issues at play: One with
> Network Manager / vpnc, and the other with Reminna / gnome-rdp...
>
> Chris
>
>
> I would greatly appreciate it if we would not get personal about this problem. If we spend more energy on solving the problem more people will benifit. Keep it real, please.