Remmina, FreeRDP, and a failed connection attempt

The other night I tried to RDP from Ubuntu to Windows using Remmina, only to have the connection attempt fail. The error message that popped up didn’t provide much detail and a double-check of passwords and settings indicated that those were fine.

A quick Google search revealed that the problem was being caused by my ~/.freerdp directory (or /home/user/.freerdp for those less familiar with the tilde in Linux).

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