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License to rdesktop

November 3rd, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

Today I recieved a strange message when I tried to open a RDP connection.

$ rdesktop windows.server.local
Autoselected keyboard map en-us
disconnect: No valid license available.

To resolve this issue you need to add the client hostname.

$ rdesktop -n hostname windows.server.local
Autoselected keyboard map en-us
WARNING: Remote desktop does not support colour depth 24; falling back to 16

This happens with rdeskop version 1.6.0 on Fedora 11 (rdesktop-1.6.0-4.fc11.x86_64).

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  1. Chris
    February 15th, 2010 at 15:49 | #1
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    hello dude ! thanks for the workaround… this is not a bug, is because the licensing of windows server expire after certain days…so, i received same error from Debian client, and Win XP client…. on windows xp client i just eliminate a register’s line..from regedit…

    from debian…here you helped me :)

    thanks

  2. Konstantin
    August 5th, 2010 at 07:28 | #2
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    Hello Dirk-Jan! Thank you a lot for your useful advise! It’s also short and understandable. I use mandriva, but it works:)

  3. Leo
    August 30th, 2010 at 20:59 | #3
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    Thanks for this great help!
    Was having same problem today on my Ubuntu machine.

    again, thanks.

  4. Norbert de Rooy
    September 2nd, 2010 at 12:10 | #4
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    the actual way to clear this up is to remove the TEMP license file from your computer, should have be done automatically.

    try this, open xterm and type;
    rm -f ~/.rdesktop/licence.`hostname -s`

    now you should be able to connect

  5. amolik
    December 9th, 2011 at 13:48 | #5
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    THANKS ..It`s HELPS ME in my computer example like this:
    /home/WORKGROUP/MICHAEL/.rdesktop# rm licence.MICH001

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