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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 -> 1.8.3
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:43:04
Message-Id: mb0diu$d8n$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 -> 1.8.3 by Matthias Hanft
1 On 02/05/2015 12:46 AM, Matthias Hanft wrote:
2 > J. Roeleveld wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Yes, you need to enable Remote Desktop on the windows guest.
5 >
6 > No, you need to enable Remote Desktop in the VirtualBox settings.
7 >
8 > VBoxManage modifyvm <name> --vrde on --vrdeport 3389 --vrdeauthtype ...
9 >
10 > And then connect to the host's IP, not to the guest's.
11 >
12 > The benefit is that you can connect to a Windows which doesn't have
13 > an RDP server included ("Home" versions of "modern" Windows, or even
14 > a very old Windows 2000, and all that).
15
16 I confirm that rdesktop-1.8.3 is very broken, at least when used the way
17 you use it, and 1.8.2 works perfectly. Very strange for a minor version
18 bump.