rdesktop not working with vista

Raymond A. Meijer rmeijer at internet.gr
Wed Jul 25 06:21:04 UTC 2007


On Tue 24 Jul 2007 21:57, James R. Jones wrote:

Hi,

> I trying to get rdesktop working with vista.  I using ubuntu 6.10 and
> have been using rdesktop to connect to xp & 2003 servers.  However with
> vista I getting connection reset by peer error.  I can rdp into the
> vista system from a xp system using dameware, however from the ubuntu
> system it does not work.  I figure there some small setting that needs
> to change and I just need to know what it is.  I have done some searches
> on yahoo and I have not found an answer.  Any info would be appreciated.

Try changing the following setting on your Vista PC:

Go to the System Control Panel, Remote settings, Remote Desktop subwindow, and 
select "Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote 
Desktop (less secure)".

See if that helps..


Ray

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