Cannot see shared folder in Windows Server 2012 connecting with Remmina in Ubuntu

Question

I connect from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS via VirtualBox, then from Ubuntu I connect to Windows Server 2012 via Remmina.

I've configured Remmina to connect with shared folder but I don't know how to see that shared folder in Windows Server 2012, maybe adding a network location, but when I'm asked for the network address I don't know what I have to write.

Is this way correct? What did I miss?

Trial

Answer 1

Well, I really don't understand why, but if you configure in remmina sound to "local" (on advance configuration), it works.

See: https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/issues/243

Vaunting

Yes, it really works and does not require to install any ppa, great. – Joanne

Remmina next didn't work on my XFCE Mint 17.3 machine (based on 14.04), so I reverted the version that's in the repository. File sharing didn't work until I made the sound be set to local. – Nitride

Answer 2

The versions of Remmina and the FreeRDP library it relies on that come with Ubuntu 14.04 are a bit outdated now. Thankfully there's a PPA for the latest Remmina which makes updating quite easy:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libfreerdp-plugins-standard remmina remmina-plugin-rdp

After updating make sure you fully close any running copies of Remmina by selecting Quit from the tray icon, and then reopen it.

Outlast

Can confirm it working for 14.04and 15.10. Make sure to first close remmina (right click the icon an quit). – Kirkwall

Good point, I actually ran into that myself, where I was running the old version even after upgrading. – Outlast