Re: [rdesktop-devel] TSE licenses - continuously asking for new one?

[Henrik A. <hen...@ce...>]

On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 22:27:26 +0100
Florent Peterschmitt <fl...@pe...> wrote:

> Le 07/01/2014 09:03, Henrik Andersson a écrit :
> > On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:04:45 +0100
> > Florent Peterschmitt <fl...@pe...> wrote:
> > Hi Florent,
> > 
> >> What we see here is:
> >>
> >> 1. search for 09dcea473ad6f1ca5c33bc89df88aa42560b82b4.cal file
> >> 2. fail to open it (it doesn't exists)
> >> 3. write to another file something (a new TSE license?)
> >> 4. close this new file
> >>
> >> If I re-launch rdesktop, then the same file (09...) is asked, not
> >> found and another _new_ CAL file is created. At this point, I have
> >> 2 CAL files.
> >>
> >> If I mv the latest CAL to the wanted CAL (09...), here is what I
> >> have:
> >>
> >> [admin@S777TXDTTEST ~]$ cd .local/share/rdesktop/licenses/
> >> [admin@S777TXDTTEST licenses]$ ls
> >> 0f6f3932c9ecff5b253edabc71d017de013a1778.cal
> >> ebbcc14692930d5d3f71925f6cc657ec02fa02cf.cal
> >> [admin@S777TXDTTEST licenses]$ mv
> >> 0f6f3932c9ecff5b253edabc71d017de013a1778.cal
> >> 09dcea473ad6f1ca5c33bc89df88aa42560b82b4.cal
> >> [admin@S777TXDTTEST licenses]$ strace -o rdesktop.trace
> >> /usr/bin/rdesktop -x 0x86 -N -a 16 -P -z -k en-us S777SQ01 -u ''
> >> Failed to negotiate protocol, retrying with plain RDP.
> >> * is this behaviour the expected one?
> > 
> > No, this is not an expected behavior.
> > 
> >> * does this behaviour can be responsible about an over consumption
> >> of TSE licenses?
> >>
> > 
> > I'm unsure, i need to investigate the issue first before having a
> > straight up answer, I will take a look at this issue this week and
> > get back to you.
> > 
> > 
> > Kind Regards,
> > 
> > Henrik Andersson (Cendio AB)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Did you have the time for any investigation? Also, do you think
> xfreerdp can "solve" this problem?
> 

The license filename hash is generated from local hostname if not
specified by the -n <hostnam> argument to rdesktop.

I can't reproduce your problem and I have not found any oddities in the
code regarding the license filename generation. Could you add a debug
print in load_license() and save_license() of g_hostname to verify that
its same while loading/storing ?


Kind Regards,

Henrik Andersson