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How to RDP from CentOS 6 using Network Level Auth

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.

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