OS X RDC client does not support Session Directories (read)

(I am posting this here because it is apparent by the number of posts, 2,
that no one reads/posts the client forum)

It seems that Microsoft's RDC client for OS X cannot reconnect to a
disconnected session on a terminal server that participates in a session
directory.

Both IP Redirection and Token Redirection have been tried. Token Redirection
is not supported by our LB (Netscaler) but we
turned it on to watch the traffic anyway.

Both configs result in the Mac RDC error "Internal RDC error"

Since both methods rely on the backend terminal server sending a "command
packet" back to the client either telling it to generate a token to send to
the LB (Token Method) or to connect directly to the terminal server that has
its session (IP Redirection) it is apparent that the Mac RDC client not only
does not understand this "command packet," but the packet also causes the RDC
client to fubar.

I will also be submitting a feature request to Netscaler asking that they
support WTS tokens as it will allow me to firewall the backend servers
completely from the outside world. As it is I cannot since the clients have
to be able to connect directly to the terminal servers if they are resuming a
disconnected session. Using the token method also lets you connect directly
to the terminal servers (on allowed networks, yay SP1) bypassing the session
directroy since the token that the client receives will be useless since
there is no LB to interpret it.
.

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