Remmina: How to use smartcard for login via RDP

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Hello!
I want to login into Windows Server via RDP and Smartcard.
It works with Microsoft MTSC/RDP Client and also with rdesktop under linux.
But I’m unable to do it with Remmina.
First of all, I don’t know what I have to fill in where… ?? Should it be enough to write the name of the smartcard key (Yubikey) into the field “Smartcard Name” ?
Can anyone explain what I have to do?

My environment:
Fedora 41
org.remmina.Remmina - 1.4.35 (git n/a)
Yubico YubiKey OTP+FIDO+CCID 00 00

Thanks a lot for any help!

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Hello and welcome @harry-forty-two!

It looks like there is an open issue with Remmina when it comes to smart card support: Smartcard logon not possible in Remmina (#2953) · Issues · Remmina / Remmina · GitLab

You might want to check out the issue page to see if there are any workarounds available.

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Hello @theqlp!
Thanks for your reply.
Ok, I red it and I realized that this is not possible at the moment. Unfortunately I’m not a application developer … :expressionless: So I cannot contribute anything … :expressionless:
So I have to create many little scripts to open rdp session via rdektop or xfreerdp :wink: till reminna will be able to provide this feature :wink:

Again: Thanks!

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