[rdesktop-devel] [ rdesktop-Bugs-2817779 ] Can't connect to WinServ 2008 SP2: "internal license error"

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Bugs item #2817779, was opened at 2009-07-07 00:31
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Category: Internals
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Estagus (wizard580)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Can't connect to WinServ 2008 SP2: "internal license error"

Initial Comment:
Today, after update my win 2008 server to SP2, my rdesktop failed to connect.

$ rdesktop -d rimsco -u "admin" -p pass -g 90% 192.168.1.3
Autoselected keyboard map ru
disconnect: Internal licensing error.

When I remove ~/.rdesktop/license.<hostname> I can connect ONLY ONE TIME, and after disconnect it fail again.

PLEASE, DO NOT MARK AS DUPLICATE!
Other messages from 2008year, and this is a fresh issue, only with W2k8 SP2 RDP server.

rdesktop 1.6.0
Ubuntu 9.04

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Comment By: Chaskiel Grundman (cg2v)
Date: 2011-04-21 12:30

Message:
I have tested rdesktop 1.7.0 and it behaves the same way. If no license
file is present, it can connect. if one is present (even one created by
1.7.0) it fails with the internal licensing error. (ubuntu 10.10, 64bit)

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Comment By: Amit Doshi (ameetkd)
Date: 2011-04-18 07:49

Message:
Whre i Can find the Rdesktop 1.7.0, does it support Windows 2008 farm
support also?

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Comment By: Peter Åstrand (astrand)
Date: 2011-04-18 07:45

Message:
Can you re-try with rdesktop 1.7.0?



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Comment By: Amit Doshi (ameetkd)
Date: 2011-04-18 07:37

Message:
I am also haivn an issue to login to windows 2008 R2 per device license.
from Where I can download rdesktop version - 1.6.0.5

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Comment By: Lothar Roth (lroth)
Date: 2009-10-19 07:23

Message:
Our workaround is like the one from xmasterx but without the requirement of
root rights

Remove/Delete the ".rdesktop"-directory 
# rm -rf ~/.rdesktop
and create a _file_
# touch ~/.rdesktop

rdesktop will complain that
  /home/<user>/.rdesktop
is not a directory but it will continue without writing the license file
:)


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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2009-10-12 12:30

Message:
same problem, internal licensing error after a single connection, fresh
install of ubuntu

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2009-08-21 07:39

Message:
I tested with version 8.04.3 LTS the error message is more explicit:

      Error : Failed to extract pulbic key  from certificate
      Error : Connection closed

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2009-08-21 04:53

Message:
I also the same problem, i can only connect once. Also message : Internal
licensing error.

My serveur is Windows 2008 Hyper-V Entreprise sp2.

I found this problem in Ubuntu 9.4 , 9.10.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2009-08-11 07:30

Message:
I have the same problem. I can only connect once… Then I have the :
Internal licensing error.

But the distribution for Igel Thinclients use rdesktop version 1.6.0.5 and
they have no problem to connect to a licensed windows 2008 server.

Is a official Patch existing?

Thanks


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Comment By: Pedro Cardoso (xmasterx)
Date: 2009-07-07 15:16

Message:
The workarround that I find, until a patch for this bug is released, is to
do:

# chown -R root.root /home/<username-with-problems-here>/.rdesktop

and just is case:

# chmod -R 444 /home/<username-with-problems-here>/.rdesktop

then just delete the license.<hostname> file and it work like a charm :D


I'm using rdesktop 1.6.0 with Ubuntu 9.04, trying to connect to a Windows
2008 Enterprise 32bit Portuguese with SP2.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2009-07-07 01:22

Message:
I checked in [MS-RDPELE] and I found this on page 82:

"<1> Section 1.3.3.3: The License PDU flow for personal terminal servers
described in this section is
valid for only Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 client operating
systems. Similarly, the
licensing architecture (section 1.3.1) and license PDU flow (section
1.3.3) for personal terminal
servers exist in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 client operating
systems only.
For previous versions of Windows, the personal terminal server does not
require a CAL and sends a
license error message (see [MS-RDPBCGR] section 2.2.1.12.1.3) with the
dwErrorCode field set to
STATUS_VALID_CLIENT (0x00000007)."

This most likely is the source of the problem.

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