java remote desktop protocol from Windows server -no valid license available(0x102)

Thanks, Linc. I checked the link. It sounds like something needing to run on the server. I don't have control of that.

Thanks again, Linc.

Love the avatar. I think we've met somewhere.

The CoRD website refers to configuring the server, however, and links to 2 pages about that, one of them being http://support.microsoft.com/kb/284931. Perhaps it looks more complicated than it is.

I could just download CoRD and try it. I'm concerned about this being a hassle for the IT people at work - they're all Windows, very busy, and the fact that the web Java interface works flawlessly on one of my computers puzzles me - it seems there must be some corrupt config file somewhere which I could just delete. If so, I can't find it. I've compared various browser settings between the two machines, and all seems good.

I'll look also into "sharing" settings although it's the server which needs to share, not me (isn't it?).

Much-obliged.

Charles

Thanks again.

I just had another look at the RDP Java connection before getting in CoRD, and ... it worked.

That was from another network. Not working was from an internal wireless network, actually at work, unable to connect to their own RDP protocol despite being connected to the wireless network and able to surf as usual. I wonder if it's some setting that doesn't let me connect to RDP from there.

I will ask IT at work about that.

In the meantime, thank you again.

Charles

In follow-up, this still isn't working from Mac Safari. That even applies, I hear, to one of our IT guys whose home computing is on a Mac.

It does work from Windows IE.

Thanks, Linc. I previously looked at the CoRD page and felt intimidated and then forgot about it. I've downloaded and run it now and my feelings were justified.

I put in the settings I know, which are something like:

https://xxx.xx.x.xxx/cgi-bin/welcome/{users_name}

and it simply fails at that point.

It works from IE or Opera (within Fusion, Vista), but not from Safari, and I haven't tried it with Firefox for Mac etc. because of complicated reasons ...

So CoRD says:

Couldn't connect to {name_I_used}

The host name could not be resolved.

So honestly, I've looked through the help files, read about "Connection Preferences" and looked at the "Connection Inspector" and it's all "computereze". It says I may use my user name and password or not - neither way works. When I go through IE (or Opera, from Vista), then there is a domain specified in a 3rd field, and it does't matter if I type that word in the Connection Inspector "Domain" field or not.

I had an idea it would be complicated.

Anyway, in the meantime, I'm managing through Fusion -> Windows_Vista. Actually, it's malfunctioning this morning as well, so this is just normal computer networking! Today, Java through IE wants to install MLWebCacheCleaner.cab... then I have to say "continue" to various security alerts 3 times ... and it's still not working, even after updating Java, rebooting Vista - so it might not be COrd at all. Will have to come back to it some other day ...

Thanks again.

Charles

So, just in follow-up, the Java RDP has started working again from Safari. I didn't change anything ...

... except I downloaded and installed the Receiver from www.citrix.com, and ran it on my MacBook Pro. It may have been coincidental but at about that time, the Java RDP started working. Then I noticed that I was using the Receiver option that said "just use your browser and close this program", so I did that and it still worked. I subsequently uninstalled the Receiver, and also used Safari successfully from my iMac, on which I had not installed the Receiver.

It's all still working. There are several ways in, depending what I click, but none of them were working before, and one of them is now (others still not).

!?!

I let IT know about it at work, but haven't heard back.

Charles