Gnome-rdp (re-post)

[Christopher A. Williams]

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