Description of problem: I connect to a windows XP VM (running as a local KVM machine, but should be irrelevant) using: rdesktop -g 1600x1100 -k en-gb $ip -r disk:homedir=/home/$mylogin In "My Computer" I see a drive "homedir", but when I click on it, I get the error message: """\\tsclient\homedir is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions The device is not connected""" HOWEVER - if I run: strace -o file <the exact command above> it works! If I start rdesktop, attach the strace with "strace -o file -p $PID" it fails If I run: setarch x86_64 -Z <the exact command above> it works! Very odd... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rdesktop-1.5.0-4.fc8.x86_64.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run "rdesktop $ip -r disk:homedir=/home/user" 2. observe it fails 3. run "setarch -Z rdesktop $ip -r disk:homedir=/home/user" 4. observe it works Actual results: Drive redirection fails when run normally Expected results: It should work Additional info: I will attach an image of the failing message box
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This is apparently a race condition in rdesktop. Using strace is just a workaround for many such cases. Also, in some Windows versions one need to redirect both sound and disk to make it work. Sometimes it is required to disable Windows simple file sharing as well. It's a mess.