[SETUP ERROR] Failed to connect to RDP server

[Ectalite]

• Description of what seems to work and what not, where you think the setup has failed
  Installation went fine, the computer did go into sleep once, because I wasn't paying attention, but then Windows continued to install and steps went on. It's actually the second time I'm redoing the setup and the installer stops at the same step (see logs). The installer asked me to connect to the VM through firefox, which worked fine and I logged out without shutting down the VM.
• Confirmation whether you have tried the setup troubleshooting tips already
  Yes I already checked for similar issue, but didn't find one.
• The windows_install.log and setup_output.log (in ~/.local/share/linoffice)

setup_output.log
setup_progress.log
windows_install.log

• The setup.log, setup_office.log, and setup_rdp.log (if they exist) in C:\OEM in the Windows VM (you can access it through 127.0.0.1:8006 in the browser (password is MyWindowsPassword) or via RDP with the command xfreerdp /cert:ignore /u:MyWindowsUser /p:MyWindowsPassword /v:127.0.0.1 /port:3388)

I can't connect through xfreerdp:

``` > xfreerdp3 /cert:ignore /u:MyWindowsUser /p:MyWindowsPassword /v:127.0.0.1 /port:3388 [10:49:08:043] [113063:0001b9a7] [WARN][com.freerdp.client.common.cmdline] - [warn_credential_args]: Using /p is insecure [10:49:08:043] [113063:0001b9a7] [WARN][com.freerdp.client.common.cmdline] - [warn_credential_args]: Passing credentials or secrets via command line might expose these in the process list [10:49:08:044] [113063:0001b9a7] [WARN][com.freerdp.client.common.cmdline] - [warn_credential_args]: Consider using one of the following (more secure) alternatives: [10:49:08:044] [113063:0001b9a7] [WARN][com.freerdp.client.common.cmdline] - [warn_credential_args]: - /args-from: pipe in arguments from stdin, file or file descriptor [10:49:08:044] [113063:0001b9a7] [WARN][com.freerdp.client.common.cmdline] - [warn_credential_args]: - /from-stdin pass the credential via stdin [10:49:08:044] [113063:0001b9a7] [WARN][com.freerdp.client.common.cmdline] - [warn_credential_args]: - set environment variable FREERDP_ASKPASS to have a gui tool query for credentials [10:49:08:047] [113063:0001b9a9] [WARN][com.freerdp.client.x11] - [load_map_from_xkbfile]: : keycode: 0x08 -> no RDP scancode found [10:49:08:047] [113063:0001b9a9] [WARN][com.freerdp.client.x11] - [load_map_from_xkbfile]: ZEHA: keycode: 0x5d -> no RDP scancode found [10:49:08:056] [113063:0001b9a9] [INFO][com.freerdp.codec] - [libavcodec_init]: Using VAAPI for accelerated H264 decoding [10:49:08:071] [113063:0001b9a9] [INFO][com.freerdp.codec] - [libavcodec_init]: Using VAAPI for accelerated H264 decoding [10:49:08:072] [113063:0001b9a9] [WARN][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - [log_build_warn][0x55ab2541b3b0]: ************************************************* [10:49:08:072] [113063:0001b9a9] [WARN][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - [log_build_warn][0x55ab2541b3b0]: This build is using [experimental] build options: [10:49:08:072] [113063:0001b9a9] [WARN][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - [log_build_warn][0x55ab2541b3b0]: * 'WITH_VAAPI=ON' [10:49:08:072] [113063:0001b9a9] [WARN][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - [log_build_warn][0x55ab2541b3b0]: * [10:49:08:072] [113063:0001b9a9] [WARN][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - [log_build_warn][0x55ab2541b3b0]: [experimental] build options might crash the application [10:49:08:072] [113063:0001b9a9] [WARN][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - [log_build_warn][0x55ab2541b3b0]: ************************************************* ```

When checking using http://127.0.0.1:8006/, setup_rdp.log doesn't exist but the other two do.

• System information:
  • Linoffice: Latest, v2.2.2
  • OS: CachyOS (kernel 6.17.8-1)
  • Desktop environment: KDE Plasma 6.5.3 with Wayland
  • Podman was installed through pacman during the setup.
  • Podman-compose was also installed during the setup
  • FreeRDP was installed by the setup using Flatpak

[Ectalite]

I tried to run FirstRunRDP.ps1, but there is a no script execution policy.

[eylenburg]

It seems to complain about the freerdp syntax. It might have changed in a new version of FreeRDP.

Can you try:
flatpak run --command=xfreerdp com.freerdp.FreeRDP /cert:ignore /u:MyWindowsUser /p:MyWindowsPassword /v:127.0.0.1 /port:3388 /app:program:cmd.exe,cmd:"/c tsdiscon"
Does that result in the same error? ("Unsupported command line syntax!")

What about:
flatpak run --command=xfreerdp com.freerdp.FreeRDP /cert:ignore /u:MyWindowsUser /p:MyWindowsPassword /v:127.0.0.1 /port:3388 /app:program:"C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe",cmd:"/c tsdiscon"
Does that work? This has the full path to cmd.exe

[eylenburg]

Hi, I tagged a new release which might fix the issue.

[Ectalite]

Hello, thanks I will try it this week end.
I also think it may be related to the way docker abd podman open ports ? I tried using winapps and also couldn‘t connect using freerdp.

[Ectalite]

Hi little update, I'm currently rerunning the setup and found this formating error:

podman-compose version 1.5.0
INFO: Checking if FreeRDP is available
SUCCESS: FreeRDP found. Using FreeRDP command 'xfreerdp3'.
INFO: Checking iptables kernel modules
INFO: WARNING: iptables kernel modules not loaded. Sharing the /home folder with the Windows VM will not work unless connected via RDP. HOW TO FIX:

Run the following command:
echo -e 'ip_tables
iptable_nat' | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/iptables.conf
Then reboot your system.

Command has line return in the middle.

Also I tried running the script with sudo, let's see if it works better like this. Maybe I will have problems running xfreerdp after with the normal account...

[Ectalite]

Do you know if it would be possible to run older version of windows like windows 7 ? I don't have a beefy cpu so it would be preferable to have a version of windows a bit more lighweight.

[eylenburg]

i haven't tested it with sudo, shouldn't be necessary

you can change the Windows version to 10 in compose. yaml.default, not sure if 7 works but maybe

[Ectalite]

Okay so what I found out: if I run using sudo installation completes without too much errors (mostly timeouts, because cpu is slow). Windows and Office installation went fine, I could use xfreerdp3 /cert:ignore /u:MyWindowsUser /p:MyWindowsPassword /v:127.0.0.1 /port:3388 /app:program:excel.exe to run excel and it worked ok.
Just I can't seem to be able to use linoffice.sh to start freerdp, it just doesn't do anything.
So my guess here is, I have to run the VM with root podman and then I can use xfreerdp as normal user.
Windows 11 has definitely too much overhead on my configuration so I will try to install windows 7.

Edit: podman container has to be started with sudo.
Without I'm getting these logs:

❯ Warning: you are using the BTRFS filesystem for /storage, this might introduce issues with Windows Setup!
2025/12/06 09:45:49 [emerg] 100#100: open() "/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (13: Permission denied)
❯ ERROR: Status 1 while: nginx -e stderr (line 49/14)
❯ Starting Windows for Podman v5.14...
❯ For support visit https://github.com/dockur/windows

Edit: Tried Win7 and Win8 but both don't have languages packs other than english, so the setup forcing the correct language breaks the container.
Win 10 works fine, Office did install automaticaly without issues. As I'm not sure what I should modify inside linoffice.sh to use podman as root, I created launchers using xfreerdp3 /cert:ignore /u:MyWindowsUser /p:MyWindowsPassword /v:127.0.0.1 /port:3388 /app:program:excel.exe which works fine enough. Only thing is that container is being shutdown after some inactivity so I have to manually restart it. So it still would be nice to be able to use linoffice.
I then tried to save a file into //tsclient/home on the VM which didn't work as I get the error: "Attempt to access invalid address"

[Ectalite]

Also I tried adding myself to libvirt and kvm groups, but it didn't really change anything. dockur/windows#626

[messmerd]

I'm running into a similar issue on Linux Mint 22. Here's the relevant part of windows_install.log:

[20:07:48:190] [2:00000002] [WARN][com.freerdp.client.common.cmdline] - [freerdp_client_settings_parse_command_line_arguments_int]: Unsupported command line syntax!
[20:07:48:190] [2:00000002] [WARN][com.freerdp.client.common.cmdline] - [freerdp_client_settings_parse_command_line_arguments_int]: FreeRDP 1.0 style syntax was dropped with version 3!

<FreeRDP 3 help printed here>