Dear All,

I'm having a strange 'broken pipe' poblem in rdesktop and I am hoping someone can direct me to a solution.

I did a fresh install of RH 8.0 after which I installed rdesktop.
Running rdesktop, the connection to a Windows XP machine is working fine, except that every few minutes or so I get the following problem:

Error: recv: Connection reset by peer
Disconnecting...
Broken pipe
>

After this I can start up rdesktop just fine again until it runs into the next broken pipe a few minutes later.

Any idea what's going on here?

Thanks

Rene

Hi All !

So my first message on this forum will be to reply this quite old post.
This was also a problem for me, since I use the -n parameter to rdesktop.
Windows need a netbios client host name to "identify" the remote desktop client.
So Try :

rdesktop <ip_address_of_machine> -n <your_wished_netbios_Id>

example :
rdesktop 192.168.0.100 -n foobar


As the error message isn't that explicit, there may be other problems generating the same error message (Broken pipe ...)

EDIT : As expected, I encounter the same error message on another computer but the "-n" solution doesn't work...

Hope this will help.
Joss