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Brent_J's avatar
Brent_J
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Mar 11, 2013

11.2.1HF3 RDP Java Client.

Hi, hoping someone has a simple answer. Have a portal defined running Edge Gateway 11.2.1 HF3.   When launching the RDP client on Mac (mountain lion) the client launches however the keyboard wi...
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Hamish's avatar
Hamish
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Jun 11, 2013

Possibly It's the same bug in Oracle Java 1.7 that I hit (For the Mac. I can't help with the Windows one, that sounds different).

 

 

For the Mac The bug itself has the ID 7180557 (http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7180557).

 

 

I've had a ticket open with F5 for a while (And F5 have now opened a ticket with oracle too about the bug). The bug itself hasn't had any action for about 6 months now (14/12/2012).

 

 

That's the bad news. The GOOD news is that it's simply because the Mac can't resolve it's own hostname to an IP. usually this is because you're on a public WLAN or similar and there's no DNS entry for whatever the FQDN is of your MAC. The even BETTER newws is that although the java RDP client REQUIRES to be able to do the lookup, IT NEVER USES the result.

 

 

So you can work-around the problem just by inserting an alias into your /etc/hosts file for the loopback. (i.e. Put the FQDN of the mac at the end of the line that starts with 127.0.0.1

 

 

 

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