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connecting to xrdp from Remmina via VPN

kg flag

My University computer is running on Ubuntu 22.04 and have xrdp installed. My home computer is Dell-Inspiron with Ubuntu 20.04. The connection to the University is via VPN Pulse-Secure. The VPN connection is to my University SSL server. When the VPN connection is established, I try to connect to the xrdp server on my University computer using Remmina RDP protocol. The connection fails. This is the output of the Remmina:

me@me-Inspiron:/$ remmina
Remmina plugin glibsecret (type=Secret) has registered but not yet initialized/activated. Initialization order is 2000.
Secret plugin glibsecret has been successfully initialized and will be your default secret plugin
StatusNotifier/Appindicator support: your desktop does support it and libappindicator is compiled in remmina. Good!
Running under Gnome Shell version 3.36.9
(org.remmina.Remmina:78170): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:25:20.996: gtk_menu_attach_to_widget(): menu already attached to GtkMenuItem
[09:25:27:583] [78170:78177] [INFO][com.freerdp.core] - freerdp_connect:freerdp_set_last_error_ex resetting error state
[09:25:27:583] [78170:78177] [INFO][com.freerdp.client.common.cmdline] - loading channelEx rdpdr
[09:25:27:583] [78170:78177] [INFO][com.freerdp.client.common.cmdline] - loading channelEx rdpsnd
[09:25:27:583] [78170:78177] [INFO][com.freerdp.client.common.cmdline] - loading channelEx cliprdr
[09:25:27:583] [78170:78177] [INFO][com.freerdp.client.common.cmdline] - loading channelEx drdynvc
[09:25:27:901] [78170:78177] [INFO][com.freerdp.primitives] - primitives autodetect, using optimized
[09:25:27:902] [78170:78177] [INFO][com.freerdp.core] - freerdp_tcp_is_hostname_resolvable:freerdp_set_last_error_ex resetting error state
[09:25:27:902] [78170:78177] [INFO][com.freerdp.core] - freerdp_tcp_connect:freerdp_set_last_error_ex resetting error state
[09:25:42:917] [78170:78177] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - freerdp_tcp_connect:freerdp_set_last_error_ex ERRCONNECT_CONNECT_FAILED [0x00020006]
[09:25:42:917] [78170:78177] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - failed to connect to 137.74.123.144

Using the same VPN from Windows connects to the xrdp server with no problem. How to I diagnose and fix this issue? Will other remote controls like VNC may work better over VPN?
Thank you
Following @Saxtheowl suggestions I tried to ping internal IP and got this output:

me@me-Inspiron:/$ ping 10.100.102.80 PING 10.100.102.80 (10.100.102.80) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.100.102.80: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.049 ms 64 bytes from 10.100.102.80: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.064 ms

^C --- 10.100.102.80 ping statistics --- 9 packets transmitted, 9 received, 0% packet loss, time 8185ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.037/0.074/0.141/0.029 ms

me@me-Inspiron:/$ ping 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.047 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.060 ms ^C --- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics --- 7 packets transmitted, 7 > received, 0% packet loss, time 6123ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.047/0.062/0.076/0.008 ms

running

xfreerdp /u:remote /v:142.75.133.134:3389

and

sudo ufw disable

did not help.

ar flag
The Remmina output says faired to connect to ` 137.74.123.144` while you are pinging `10.100.102.80`. Try connecting to `10.100.102.80` using Remmina.
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iq flag

There is some stuff you can do to diagnose your problem, try to ping internal ip addresses, check again your xdrp ip addresses and port, temporary disable ufw with sudo ufw disable, you also try another RDP client like FreeRDP s

sudo apt install freerdp2-x11
xfreerdp /u:<username> /v:<server_ip_address>:<port_number>
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kg flag
Where do i ping and disable ufw? in the client?
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iq flag
yes in the client
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kg flag
It is not clear to me whether I write the actual IP address of the xrdp server such as 137.74.123.144 in the <server_ip_address> or internal address. If it is an internal address, which one is it?
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iq flag
you should try with the internal
hans avatar
kg flag
Please specify which exact IP should I use. Thank you
Saxtheowl avatar
iq flag
It would be something like 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x. with 3389 port so xfreerdp /u:<username> /v:192.168.1.100:3389
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