Remote desktop from RHEL 6.5 server to Windows 2008 desktop is not working.

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Issue

  • Remote desktop from RHEL 6.5 server to Windows 2008 desktop is not working.
  • Can remote to Windows 2003 but not Windows 2008 or newer systems.
  • Attempting to remote access through GUI and rdesktop
"ERROR: Failed to extract public key from certificate"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
    • Rdesktop package rdesktop-1.7.1-1.el6.x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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