RDP terminal server client issues

[Luis Paulo]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:47 PM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> I have a 9.10 instance that I use for a primary workstation atwork. It
> works greate, but now I have developed an issue. I use the "terminal server
> clinet" application from the pulldown menus to access a number of M$
> machines on a very regular bassis. One of these is a server 2008 instance
> that I installed about 2 months agao, and I have been able to connect to it
> with no problems till yesterday. Now I get what appears to be a
> conncection, but am imedialty thrown off. I can use the Windows RDP client
> from a Windows machinew and get connected with no issues.
>
> How can I troubleshoot this?
>
> The only thing that might have chnaged is that I had someone from the
> Windows side help me set up the server 2008 machine to use one of the
> corporate m$ licnese servers to provide CAL's yesterday. He siad something
> about needing "terminal server CALS", instead of the CAL's that I had
> bought. I asked him to roll back his chnages today, and he claims he did,
> but I still cannot get conected to the machine.
>
> Iam the one admin'ong the applications on this machine, so being able to
> reliably connect to it is very important to me. How can I get this
> application to log what error is happeneing? Or whatever else might make it
> possible to troubleshoot this problem.
>
> I can still sue the Ubuntu terminal server client to connect to other
> M$machinesm BTW.

windows servers had as a thing you may choose from number of users or
per seat licensing (something alike, there's two possible ways).
May your 2008 had been configured to check for the client license
(CAL) to allow connection?

I don't know much about windows. But there should be a Licensing item
on your Administrative Menu.

If that's not it, it seems to be that windows machine not allowing the
connection, maybe the best way is to check the 2008 logs. No idea
where they are.

Regards
Luis