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Hamish
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Aug 19, 2014

Basically java RDP is broken. Not F5's fault, blame Oracle and the ever changing requirements to try & shore up the security of the JVM's...

 

One of the biggest issues is that on the Mac, java RDP really really really wants to be able to resolve the hostname (Of the Mac) to an IP. It doesn't need to, and doesn't use it when it does, but if the resolution is NOT available, then java RDP just won't work.

 

To fix it, I usually make sure that the hostname is in the /etc/hosts file on the Mac. Then Java RDP should work (Unless you've found yet a other issue with it :)

 

There's other postings around here (From about 18 months - 2 years ago IIRC) where this was discussed for a bit until I finally stumbled over the answer while running with tracing enabled and judicious tcpdumps...

 

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