VRDP: Can't get rdesktop to connect to Windows guest

KenJackson · Post by **KenJackson** » 24. Jan 2009, 22:35

I can't get VRDP to work, and I'm not sure how to investigate the problem.
I don't see results in any log. What should I do to see what's wrong?

I try to connect to my Windows XP guest (named intew) with this command and get this response:

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$ rdesktop -a 16 intew:55000
Autoselected keyboard map en-us
ERROR: intew: unable to connect

I have network connectivity, in fact I can SSH back and forth between the guest and host.
VRDP is turned on, as indicated here:

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$ VBoxManage showvminfo WindowsXP|grep 'VRDP\|size'
Memory size:     752MB
VRAM size:       16MB
VRDP:            enabled (Address 0.0.0.0, Port 55100, MultiConn: on, ReuseSingleConn: off, Authentication type: null)
VRDP Connection:    not active

I'm running VirtualBox 2.1.2 on Mandriva Linux 2009.0 with host interface networking.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 25. Jan 2009, 01:01

When connecting to VRDP, you connect to the Host system, not the Guest.

KenJackson · Post by **KenJackson** » 25. Jan 2009, 01:14

Sasquatch wrote:When connecting to VRDP, you connect to the Host system, not the Guest.

Oh! That was not obvious. And now it works!

Thank you.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 25. Jan 2009, 01:27

It is obvious if you read the manual

. You connect to the actual Guest IP if you use it's own RDP server (not available in XP Home).

KenJackson · Post by **KenJackson** » 25. Jan 2009, 01:41

Sasquatch wrote:It is obvious if you read the manual.

No.

I've been searching the manual for several days now. And earlier today I downloaded the one for v2.1.2 and read it.

Now that you've told me, I went back and more carefully read it, and yes, it says to use the IP address of the host. But that's very easy to miss, especially since I wasn't expecting it.

But that's what this forum is for. Thanks again.