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To test Slackware's rdesktop 1.8.3 I tried to access http://slackmirror.cbpf.br/pub/slackware/, but that site seems to be down.
Luckily 14.2's rdesktop 1.8.3 works and shows no problem!
Pinning 1.8.3 for the time being ...
VirtualBox provides rdesktop-vrdp, which is a modified 1.8.4: OK too!
I am not sure this is the same problem as mine: for as far as I can see the messages are different.
My only use case is accessing VirtualBox VMs when not using VNC, so I can use the VB-supplied rdesktop-vrdp.
I used rdesktop to access Windows instances once in a while, but with Win10 things seem to have changed. Adding researching this to my todo list ...
For those who still want to use rdesktop, you can check if there is a "rdesktop-vrdp" binary installed, and if there is you can use it instead. It says that it is "Modified for VirtualBox", and for me it worked.
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