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Remmina Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Connectivity Issues

I recently had an issue using Remmina to RDP to a Debian desktop from an Xubuntu desktop where the connection would never fully complete. The target host is running XRDP.

After much searching around, I found that the key was to set the following options in the connection profile in Remmina under “Advanced Options”:

Turn on: Relax order checks

…and:

Turn on: Glyph cache

…if you, while monitoring your XRDP log in your target user directory, notice something like this:

rdpClientConCheck: rdpClientConGotData failed

…you might have the same problem.

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