From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDA3138A1A for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 18:43:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BB6CE08E9; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 18:42:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D1F4FE08D2 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 18:42:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE663407F3 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 18:42:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 2.866 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.866 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.488, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_HELO_BARE_IP_2=1.999, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=0.865, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bW_TULvCaJ_l for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 18:42:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A1AD3407E2 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 18:42:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YJRO0-0006ky-7z for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:42:44 +0100 Received: from 216.240.144.35 ([216.240.144.35]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:42:44 +0100 Received: from w41ter by 216.240.144.35 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:42:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 -> 1.8.3 Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:42:37 -0800 Message-ID: References: <54D1ECBD.7030208@hanft.de> <5605184.5bgP7zYhhP@andromeda> <54D32E02.8050302@hanft.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.240.144.35 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: <54D32E02.8050302@hanft.de> X-Archives-Salt: 7befc93e-5fdf-4494-902d-a6209316c8d9 X-Archives-Hash: caa6abec7397641595b694da8893df84 On 02/05/2015 12:46 AM, Matthias Hanft wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> Yes, you need to enable Remote Desktop on the windows guest. > > No, you need to enable Remote Desktop in the VirtualBox settings. > > VBoxManage modifyvm --vrde on --vrdeport 3389 --vrdeauthtype ... > > And then connect to the host's IP, not to the guest's. > > The benefit is that you can connect to a Windows which doesn't have > an RDP server included ("Home" versions of "modern" Windows, or even > a very old Windows 2000, and all that). I confirm that rdesktop-1.8.3 is very broken, at least when used the way you use it, and 1.8.2 works perfectly. Very strange for a minor version bump.