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Wrong keyboard layout in Remmina and Windows Server
I solved this issue enabling the following option at Remmina: Preferences / RDP / Use client keyboard mapping
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How to extract saved password from Remmina?
Remmina (1.3.3) store passwords thanks to libsecret, the libsecret-tools package can help you retrieve the stored password.
I was looking for the password of a Windows RDP connection with user ...
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Remmina: "Protocol plugin RDP is not installed", even after purge and install
I just ran into this myself (Kubuntu 14.04 LTS). I had the basic remmina package installed, but I wanted to add in all the optional protocols. I think I figured out why rebooting fixed the problem for ...
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error when trying to connect to windows computer with Remmina
Remmina uses xfreerdp which uses openssl to encrypt the connection via RDP to a windows computer.
Ubuntu 22.04 shipped with OpenSSL 3.0. Openssl3 changed the default security level of tls<1.2 and ...
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Copy and paste between remote sessions using Remmina
It's not a solution, but if you don't have time to install anything, reboot, or investigate what's going on:
Close session, restart Remmina and open session again.
It worked for me.
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How to paste a password in Remmina when connecting to a remote xrdp server
Click on the wrench icon or Tools on the left, then select Keystrokes. Then select Send clipboard content as keystrokes
EDIT: Thanks to @s.k there is an issue where Remmina doesn't detect by default ...
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Remmina: "Protocol plugin RDP is not installed", even after purge and install
Well, perhaps a reboot would've done the trick.
I removed Remmina from my machine yesterday and I shut my machine down at the end of the day. After starting it back up this morning, I installed ...
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Copy or export Remmina remote desktop files to another Ubuntu install
For users of the Flatpak build of Remmina, you can find the connection settings at:
~/.var/app/org.remmina.Remmina/data/remmina/
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Copy or export Remmina remote desktop files to another Ubuntu install
Installed Remmina on Ubuntu 16.04 and had to reinstall Ubuntu after a while because it wasn't running the best. On my first install, the location of all the Remmina connection files was /home/$USER/....
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Remmina Copy-Paste issue
Unfortunately that's a known bug in Remmina 1.12 running on Ubuntu 15.04-16.04 and you have a few options:
Do nothing and live with it :-( (That's always an option)
Install the Remmina PPA on 16.04. ...
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Using windows exported ".rdp" file from Ubuntu
From the terminal this worked for me:
remmina -c Downloads/somemachine.rdp
The command line help says:
$ remmina --help
...
-c, --connect=FILE Connect to a .remmina file
Older versions ...
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Remmina not launching 16.04
From @stroudmw's comments the following commands fixed the problem:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install remmina remmina-plugin-rdp ...
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Use Remmina 1.2.0 with SSH tunneling
It works in my case and I think the strange configurations are:
In SSH Tunnel, best use the SSH Agent based authentication.
In Basic settings, the server should start with localhost even though I put ...
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How to share a folder with Remmina?
On the client:
Make sure that Remmina is newer than 1.2, because of potential bugs related to sharing a folder (see this link)
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next
sudo apt-get ...
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Why won't Remmina connect to Windows 10 Remote Desktop?
I install Remmina-Next in Ubuntu 16.04.3 in one command line:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next ; sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install remmina remmina-plugin-rdp
(after ...
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Copy or export Remmina remote desktop files to another Ubuntu install
For Remmina 1.4.8 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS the location of Remmina configuration was (for me):
~/snap/remmina/4460/.local/share/remmina
Today, I converted from a PPA install (which is no longer supported ...
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Why remmina on Ubuntu refused to connect to Windows 7 (Service Pack 1)?
Your problem is that you don't have Remote Desktop on your Windows machine. You only have Remote Assistance, which is not the same thing. Here's an image of what that box looks like on a computer ...
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Unable to save connection remmina RDP
Had the same problem, discovered that there is a bug using snap. Removed the snap and reinstalled from Remmina repository for Ubuntu. Also made sure the permissions were set on ~/.remmina. Works ...
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Can I transfer files alo copy paste in Remmina (or another RDP client) on 13.04 while connected to a Windows 7?
Thank you @betatester07 for this +drives hint! My hints below:
You can also use /drive:name,mountpoint directive to provide only a given path to a remote client :-)
You can put all parameters into a ...
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How to configure Remmina for VNC desktop sharing?
I had the same problem. It would connect to a remote server but the screen remained blank. Possibly the version installed with the distribution has a problem. I removed it and then installed the ...
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VNC plugin not working in Remmina
Fixed by reinstalling:
sudo apt-get purge libvncserver0
and then
sudo apt-get install remmina-plugin-vnc
source
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15.04 -- Open .RDP Files Automatically
Remmina does not support opening RDP files. Instead you can open RDP files directly with xfreerdp, the actual RDP client that Remmina uses under the hood for RDP.
You have two options, both described ...
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Use Remmina 1.2.0 with SSH tunneling
You don't need to open ssh tunnel yourself (anymore?). Remmina, at least the current version 1.4.2, does it for you.
Here is my configuration which just works:
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Remmina: why not display full screen?
Unfortunately I haven't found any decent rdp for linux yet to reach the level of native windows or Microsoft's rdp for mac.
Remmina does not show the remote desktop full size (or I couldn't make it to ...
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Remina not working on 20.04
I found that it was an issue with FreeRDP.
Connection -> Edit -> Advanced:
Relax Order Checks
Glyph Cache
credits: https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/issues/2163
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Why Remmina RDP doesn't work and Windows Remote Desktop Client Does?
Fixed it by increasing this parameter /timeout:60000
On Remmina
I guess it's just that Windows RDP is more tolerant by default.
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Using windows exported ".rdp" file from Ubuntu
Remmina works on Linux Mint 17.3 (Ubuntu 14.04 based)
however I could not get it to work directly with the .rdp file. Neither via import nor per double click.
what actually worked fine was:
...
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remmina no longer working "cannot connect to RDP server localhost"
Just to add to itsadok's answer
Had this same issue when trying to RDP into a Windows server. To confirm that the issue is not related to an incorrect password, I tried to SSH into an Ubuntu server ...
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remmina no longer working "cannot connect to RDP server localhost"
Probably stupid answer, but the problem for me was that I tried connecting through an open Wi-Fi network (unencrypted) and remmina wouldn't allow that. Once I connected to a secure network everything ...
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Remmina alternative
I'd like to point out that now Remmina is actively developed and works quite nicely, with plenty of new features.
If you have specific needs or bugs to report, submit a new issue on gitlab
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