bin/winapps gives an error

[Pratham Chhabhaiya]

Hello there, I am using Arco linux, on Gnome 41 xorg, and I get this error when I run /bin/apps check:
[20:12:46:880] [37013:37014] [WARN][com.freerdp.crypto] - Certificate verification failure 'self signed certificate (18)' at stack position 0 [20:12:46:880] [37013:37014] [WARN][com.freerdp.crypto] - CN = RDPWindows [20:12:47:081] [37013:37014] [WARN][com.freerdp.core.nla] - SPNEGO received NTSTATUS: STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE [0xC000006D] from server [20:12:47:081] [37013:37014] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - nla_recv_pdu:freerdp_set_last_error_ex ERRCONNECT_LOGON_FAILURE [0x00020014] [20:12:47:081] [37013:37014] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - rdp_recv_callback: CONNECTION_STATE_NLA - nla_recv_pdu() fail [20:12:47:081] [37013:37014] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - transport_check_fds: transport->ReceiveCallback() - -1
I don't have much understanding of virtualisation and I am using freerdp. Is freerdp supported with this? I tried finding freerdp2 but failed. I checked the username and password, and also tried pinging to the VM, the ping reached VM. Is anything that I am missing? Any help is appreciated. :D

[Saqib]

I also get the same issue. Did you run the vm as user or root.

[Pratham Chhabhaiya]

It was user most probably. I gave up on it and now I ended using the VM directly since it was too much of a hassle to find the problem. Good luck to you tho.
And one last thing, which distro are you using and are you using freerdp or freerdp2?

[Saqib]

I tried to run vm as both root and user, still nothing. I too use the vm now directly. I hope it gets resolved in future. It would have been better if developer packaged it as flatpak with vm bundled inside pre-configured with the only requirement of windows iso.
And I use ubuntu and freerdp2

[Pratham Chhabhaiya]

Since freerdp was not available on both Arch repos and AUR, I too used freerdp2. Can that be the hurdle?

[Saqib]

i don't think. In fact it is better to use freerdp2.

[Pratham Chhabhaiya]

I am sorry, I couldn't reply recently. I actually don't have much idea of it. Did you find out a solution or are you using VM directly?

[Saqib]

Well I need to use windows for a project and now I'm dualbooting so i nuked that vm. Check this video its description gives some idea what commands to use to get it to work properly.

[Pratham Chhabhaiya]

LMAO, that was the video that bought me here. Sadly didn't find any solution and maybe I'll close this issue.

[AquanJSW]

according to this, the following steps work for me:

1. untick Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (recommended).
   

2. add /sec:tls option to command of check in bin/winapps like #318

if you still got errors, try a non-empty user password then...

[Dan]

Ran into this issue and came across this trying to figure it out. This is how I revolved my issue.

I tried to connect to the vm manually with xfreerdp by running xfreerdp /u:<username> /p:<password> /v:<vm IP> ... my password had an !@ in it and even though it was put in double quotes, it processed it as bash and gave me this error:

bash: !@: event not found

After changing the password not to include those two characters next to each other, it ran successfully.

[Keerthan]

according to this, the following steps work for me:

1. untick Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (recommended).
   
2. add /sec:tls option to command of check in bin/winapps like Update winapps #318

if you still got errors, try a non-empty user password then...

method one and setting a non-empty password solved for me.