Re: Re: Remote connections

From: GuidoZ (uberguidoz_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/19/04

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    Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:50:39 -0700
To: Conlan Adams <conlan@mebtc.org>

    Thanks for the link Conlan. I've run into that problem before, yet
    never bothered to try and fix it.

    Something else you may try is using PuTTY with VNC (or possibly RDP).
    I'm not sure how well it would work with RDP, as I've never done it
    nor even tried it. (It's possibly it wouldn't work given the
    proprietary nature of RDP.) As for VNC however, instead of trying to
    explain the procedure in my own words, allow me to point you at around
    9,000 descriptions: http://www.google.com/search?&q=putty+ssh+vnc

    A quick Google search suggests it's possible to do the same with RDP,
    however it looks like it's not preferred. I'd say give it a go
    yourself and decide from there. 

    --
Peace. ~G
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:38:08 -0400, Conlan Adams <conlan@mebtc.org> wrote:
> New to the list (just signed up today) but there is another option
> 
> SSH
> Compliments of Cygwin (www.cygwin.org) you can setup a SSH server on
> nearly any machine.  Then you can connect to said machine from the
> machine you would like to take over from, and port tunnel the RDP
> connection through the SSH connection.
> 
> There are several pages on google that can help you with how to do it
> referring to VNC with this, just search for VNC, SSH and Cygwin and
> supliment it by doing RDP instead of VNC.
> 
> There is a problem running this on XP machines, as they think your
> trying to connect to yourself locally (as you have to forward the port)
> to correct this just follow the directions here
> (http://archive.erdelynet.com/ssh-l/2002-10/msg00001.php)
> 
> Conlan Adams
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Fleming [mailto:jfleming@creativeventuresofboca.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 11:04 PM
> To: 'Laura Robinson'; 'GuidoZ'; focus-ms@securityfocus.com
> Cc: bugtraq@planetcobalt.net; paviles@adjoined.com
> Subject: RE: Re: Remote connections
> 
> Aside from creating a VPN tunnel and then performing a Remote Desktop
> session, the only other secure way that I was taught, but never tested
> was through SSL.
> 
> Aparently there is a Remote Desktop Web Connection feature that can be
> installed with IIS 6.0. This can act as a gateway to 2000 and 2003
> Server Terminal Services and XP and 2003 server Remote Desktop machines.
> You communicate through HTTP port 80 or SSL 443. Terminal Services Web
> Connection is installed on the web server to a Virtual Directory called
> TSWEB. It is supposed to act as a gateway between the client and
> terminal server. Like I said, I have never tried it, but would love to
> hear some input on it if anyone has.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura Robinson [mailto:larobins@verizon.net]
> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 5:34 PM
> To: GuidoZ; focus-ms@securityfocus.com
> Cc: bugtraq@planetcobalt.net; paviles@adjoined.com
> Subject: Re: Re: Remote connections
> 
> > > Why not? I don't know of any current exploit for RDP set to high
> > > encryption, and even if there were any, connections may very well be
> 
> > > shielded by encrypted tunnels.
> >
> > I'm not aware of any currently either, but as their track record
> > proves, that's meaningless.
> 
> RDP has been around and used for *years*. Just because Microsoft makes
> something doesn't inherently mean that it is broken and requiring of a
> knee-jerk bigoted approach to it.
> 
> > > RDP can be tunneled thru SSH as well and has much better performance
> 
> > > than VNC (don't know about Radmin).
> >
> > This may very well be true. I'm not up to par as much as I'd like on
> > RDP, although I'm quite well learned on VNC and such. TightVNC has
> > some of the best compression I've ever seen on a remote control app,
> > I've used TightVNC through Dial-up many a times without delay or a
> > problem. I'd love to see RDP perform the same feat.
> 
> Um, it does. I've done it many, many times. And RAdmin is garbage as far
> as what it does to the machine on which it's running unless you remember
> to crank down its refresh rate to a near-nonexistent level.
> >
> > But I digress. Again, I very well could be wrong about RDP. I've
> > always leaned towards other remote control programs due to problems
> > that usually arises with proprietary programs. (I've been using a form
> 
> > of WinVNC since before RDP was even thought of.)
> 
> Don't be too sure- do you know where RDP came from? With that said, I
> think it's time for you to take a look at it before making what you
> admit are biased statements about it. Never comment on something you've
> not used is usually a good approach, I find.
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