Podman and freerdp problem

Bazzite
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I’m trying to connect to Windows11 in a container using freerdp. The container is running and noVNC can connect to it via http://127.0.0.1:8006 but freerdp shows error Connection reset by peer. This is related to winapps.

As far as I understand a request should come up to accept some certificates but that never comes up. Perhaps because the error happens before reaching that part?

I’ve also tried connecting to it via Thincast Remote Desktop Client without success.

podman version 5.0.3 (Emulate Docker CLI using podman)
Docker Compose version v2.27.1
FreeRDP version 3.5.1

I’ve tested with and without a user password set on the guest (Windows)
Network Level Authentication option is disabled on guest.

This is the output from my tests

leslie@fedora:~/Apps/winapps$ bin/winapps check
[20:00:12:834] [12616:00003149] [INFO][com.freerdp.client.x11] - [xf_setup_x11]: Enabling X11 debug mode.
[20:00:13:349] [12616:00003149] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_read_layer]: BIO_read returned a system error 104: Connection reset by peer
[20:00:13:349] [12616:00003149] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - [transport_read_layer]: ERRCONNECT_CONNECT_TRANSPORT_FAILED [0x0002000D]
leslie@fedora:~/Apps/winapps$ xfreerdp /u:DOCKER /p:pass /v:127.0.0.1
[20:00:40:08] [13101:0000332e] [INFO][com.freerdp.client.x11] - [xf_setup_x11]: Enabling X11 debug mode.
[20:00:41:506] [13101:0000332e] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_read_layer]: BIO_read returned a system error 104: Connection reset by peer
[20:00:41:506] [13101:0000332e] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - [transport_read_layer]: ERRCONNECT_CONNECT_TRANSPORT_FAILED [0x0002000D]
leslie@fedora:~/Apps/winapps$ nmap -P0 -p 3389 127.0.0.1
Starting Nmap 7.95 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-05-29 20:02 SAST
Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.000065s latency).

PORT     STATE SERVICE
3389/tcp open  ms-wbt-server

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.02 seconds
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I managed to establish a connection after reading this and entering podman unshare --rootless-netns

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tried to do:

  1. start the container in podman unshare --rootless-netns and the script in a normal shell
  2. the vice versa of above
  3. both in podman unshare --rootless-netns shell
    none of them worked, resulting in an exit code 13 while running the script
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Anyone have an idea why when I try to run that command it says it can’t because of Homebrew, and then somehow drops me into the Root role???

podman unshare --rootless-netns
Error: Running Homebrew as root is extremely dangerous and no longer supported.
As Homebrew does not drop privileges on installation you would be giving all
build scripts full access to your system.
root@bazzite ~#