Got a little further – I built guacd back with freerdp 3 and everything works again. I assume it must be some setting or everyone’s RDP would be broken, right?
--Steve From: Barnhart, Steven <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]> Subject: Unable to connect to machine via RDP with 1.6.0 This is a strange one as I don’t (and just tested again to confirm) this issue with with at least 1. 6. 0-RC1, but 1. 6. 0 I get a logon failed almost immediately connecting to most machines, with only this in the log message for guacd: guacd[1]: This is a strange one as I don’t (and just tested again to confirm) this issue with with at least 1.6.0-RC1, but 1.6.0 I get a logon failed almost immediately connecting to most machines, with only this in the log message for guacd: guacd[1]: INFO: Listening on host 0.0.0.0, port 4822 guacd[1]: INFO: Creating new client for protocol "rdp" guacd[1]: INFO: Connection ID is "$60ff642d-8ce1-43ae-9f29-9261ed548a72" guacd[8]: WARNING: FreeRDP initialization may fail: The current user's home directory ("/") is not writable, but FreeRDP generally requires a writable home directory for storage of configuration files and certificates. guacd[8]: INFO: Security mode: NLA guacd[8]: INFO: Resize method: display-update guacd[8]: INFO: No clipboard line-ending normalization specified. Defaulting to preserving the format of all line endings. guacd[8]: INFO: User "@05542bab-dfc3-4eaa-be24-92634dfb73b7" joined connection "$60ff642d-8ce1-43ae-9f29-9261ed548a72" (1 users now present) guacd[8]: INFO: Local system reports 2 processor(s) are available. guacd[8]: INFO: Graphical updates will be encoded using 2 worker thread(s). guacd[8]: INFO: Loading keymap "base" guacd[8]: INFO: Loading keymap "en-us-qwerty" guacd[8]: INFO: RDP server closed/refused connection: Security negotiation failed (wrong security type?) guacd[8]: INFO: User "@05542bab-dfc3-4eaa-be24-92634dfb73b7" disconnected (0 users remain) guacd[8]: INFO: Last user of connection "$60ff642d-8ce1-43ae-9f29-9261ed548a72" disconnected guacd[1]: INFO: Connection "$60ff642d-8ce1-43ae-9f29-9261ed548a72" removed. Also of note, even clearing my credentials does the same thing and no prompt for credentials happens (but DOES in 1.6.0-RC1). This is a containerized/docker environment. Steven T. Barnhart Solutions Engineer The Ohio State University OTDI Research Technology and Infrastructure (614) 688-1013 Office
