RDP terminal server client issues

[stan]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 06:12:15PM +0100, Luis Paulo wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, I will see what I can find out about that.

Is there a way to make the Ubuntu side log why it is failing?
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