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graysky

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xfreerdp - can one connect to the welcome screen of a win7 box?

Using rdesktop, I can remote into a win7 box without specifying a user name which allows me to graphically select one from the native welcome screen.  Is anyone aware how I can do the same connecting with xfreerdp?  I have tried omitting the user name switch but the shell prompts me for a password...

xfreerdp /w:1680 /h:1050 +compression +clipboard /v:my.win7.domain.com

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esdaniel

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Registered: 2010-02-01

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Re: xfreerdp - can one connect to the welcome screen of a win7 box?

Did you try adding --no-auth as per 'man xfreerdp' ?

graysky

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Re: xfreerdp - can one connect to the welcome screen of a win7 box?

Sorry, I don't see that in the man page at all.  There are just two hits when I search on 'auth':

/auth-only
  (null)

/authentication
  (null)

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esdaniel

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From: Paris

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Re: xfreerdp - can one connect to the welcome screen of a win7 box?

Hmm, curious. I confess I've kept my version back so that it works with KDE's KRDC thus our man pages could well be different... that said in the git repo I found this:
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/sear … &q=no-auth

Chuck Arch Linux

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Registered: 2011-06-23

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Re: xfreerdp - can one connect to the welcome screen of a win7 box?

In my case, I'm only able to directly connect to my remote computer (or any other user) and I must specify my username and password for xfreerdp to work.

Here is my command :

xfreerdp /u:username /p:password /d:mydomain /g:mygateway /v:myremotedesktop /size:1920x1080 /f /bpp:32 /rfx +compression

I haved try to remove the username and/or the password but it seam that I cannot only access the windows 7 login screen.

As for me, the --no-auth is not a valid command option.

Using xfreerpd 1.1 compile from git.

Last edited by Chuck Arch Linux (2014-12-24 01:12:47)