Re: Anyone - M$ Term Server behind iptables?

From: Steve Horsley (shoot_at_the.moon)
Date: 11/05/03 

Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:20:23 +0000

P.T. Breuer wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.networking ERACC <junkmail@eracc.com> wrote:
>
>>am an iptables novice. Especially when attempting to set up port
>>forwarding to a service behind the firewall. Why am I asking here
>
>
> I find it easiest to do that with a specialist or generic proxy like
> rinetd. Depends.
>
>
>>rather than he? Because his company Internet policy does not allow
>>posting to or reading USENET on the job. :-)
>

Doh! Another triumph of dogma over common sense.
>
>>Now we are both trying to figure out how to get access to the M$ Term
>>Server set up and apparently can't figure it out. Here are the rules
>
>
<snip>

> Ask someone who knows. I don't even know what a windows Term
> Server *is*!
>
> Peter

It's a remote control application, rather like PC-anywhere, VNC or X.
I don't know the details. MS could never just use something that already
exists and works of course.
I _do_ know that it all works on a single TCP session because I have
proxied/relayed it for other people in the past.
So the missing return path rule (in another reply) sounds like a good
bet to me.

Steve

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