And…Now I can’t log into the other M7i-Flex instances I was working in either via RDP…Steps I took to troubleshoot…No joy: Fixed in subsequent post

Self-signed snakeoil certificate used by default on Ubuntu by xrdp

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I’ve been writing about my struggles to regain access to hosts I’ve set up or shut down via the xrdp service.

Update ~ Fixed the connection issue in this post (still looking into certificates):

xrdp only listening on IPv6 — hangs on configuring remote pc

I was just working in one host recently and it disconnected. So I stopped it and left and for dinner and came back to work on it again.

Now it’s doing the same thing as the other host I created an image of it from: