cannot connect from Cent OS 8 to Cent OS 8

[jorgekoronis]

Hello

I am trying to connect with rdesktop from Cent OS 8 to another Cent OS 8 machine and I see this after runnning the following over an ssh tunnel:
rdesktop -k /usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/es -u $USER localhost:3389 -p $PASSWORD

You can find below the output I saw:
Core(warning): Certificate received from server is NOT trusted by this system, an exception has been added by the user to trust this specific certificate.
Connection established using SSL.

Connection Log
connecting to seesman ip 127.0.0.1 port 2250
sesman connect ok
sending login info to session manager, please wait ...
login failed for display 0

I think this means rdesktop does not grab the correct password while I type. This might happen due to an incorrect layout but the layout of the keyboard of my local computer is Spanish as I pointed out in
"-k /usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/es"

Moreover, if I retype the password in the username blank just to check whether the remote computer grabs the correct keys, I can tell it grabs the correct keys because I see the password typed in correctly on the username blank.

Furthermore, if I retype the user and the password on the corresponding blanks of the login GUI, rdesktop takes me back to the screen displayed below:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71354661/142718741-1cbbefd2-f54e-4912-b15d-ab546bedd463.png

I know my user and password credentials are correct because I can already connect by RDP with Remmina with the same login credentials I use with rdesktop. I just wanted to give rdesktop a try because Remmina does not get the correct layout of my local comoputer on the remote desktop and some keys such as alt or the @ do not work remotely while I user Remmina.

Do you know how to fix this?
Thanks

[devlavender]

Hello!

Thanks for reaching out, and I apologize for taking so long to reply.

If you are willing to help me understand a little bit more of what is going on, there are some potentially helpful information I would like to ask:

1. rdesktop client version
2. server software and version, if possible
3. output produced with the addition of the -v (verbose) option

Besides your current setting, if possible, it would be great if you could also do the same in some other servers preferably with different server software, or server version, or also different environments (i.e., another distro, or another CentOS version). But don't worry if it's not possible!

Edit: Also, it just occurred to me that it might be important to ask you why you were thinking the keymap would be an issue. Is there any specific reasons why you suspect that? Maybe I've missed something.

[sskras]

ping @jorgekoronis