How to RDP from CentOS 6 using Network Level Auth

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 2, 2013

Connecting from CentOS 6 to Windows Server 2008 R2 used to be impossible if you had Network Level Authentication required on your Windows Servers. However, the latest version of rdesktop (1.8 as of this writing) finally integrates NLA. Unfortunately, if you’re using CentOS 6 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the newest version is not currently available from the EPEL or base repos. In this article I’m going to show you how to build and install the software so it works correctly.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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