RDP connection to 2008 server farm (cluster) asks for login again

[Martin Wildam]

Binary package hint: rdesktop

I am at a company where I am connecting to a Windows 2008 server farm. Final server is determined via Round Robin.
When I connect directly to a particular terminal server (eg TS01...) , everything is fine, but when connecting to the main entry point (TSFARM....) then I am presented the login screen and have to reenter the login information although already provided using tsclient or grdesktop (tried 3 different clients, all show exactly the same behaviour). Interestingly in 10% of the attempts it works, but for the rest not.

You can see the screen I get to in screen018.png, HP_NT is the domain here. I tried with several combinations like HP_NT\userid or just userid and put HP_NT as domain and even tried both. And tried even with different resolutions and color depth.

Unfortunately I have no idea which logs are of special interest for you.
Which logfiles should I attach? - Did not find any particular entry in /var/log/messages and other logfiles displayed through logfile viewer.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: rdesktop 1.6.0-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-28.55-generic-pae 2.6.32.27+drm33.12
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-28-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 8 14:05:36 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rdesktop
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rdesktop
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1978): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (firefox-bin:2169): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown paper size A4
 (firefox-bin:2169): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown paper size A4
 (firefox-bin:2169): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown paper size A4

[Martin Wildam (mwildam)]

I have tried replacing the tsfarm with ts01, ts02 and so on.
I noticed that the login works if I directly connect to the server that the tsfarm would choose to connect me to.
If it is different login credentials will not be passed to the according server.

For Co-workers using Windows, it is working so I do not think that there is a mistake in the server farm configuration.

I have entered all relevant IPs into my hosts table but that does not help either.
And I see the same issue whether I am in the office or connecting via VPN.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.