AWS Workspaces: “auth code invalid”

Fixing the registration code in the configuration files

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This is just a quick blog post to solve a problem I’ve had more than once with Amazon Workspaces. Sometimes when you start the Workspaces client you may have issues with the registration code for the workspace. You can find the registration code when you expand the details for the AWS Workspace in the console.

I recently performed and update of the AWS client and then when I launched it, it told me my registration code was invalid. I knew this because I had recently restarted my AWS Workspace. I client the link in the client to reset the registration code. That didn’t work. Next I went to the menu at the top of the screen and reset the registration code that way. Still didn’t work.

I turned on logging and checked the logs. The logs give a different error which tells you there is an authentication problem but does…