Windows Remote Desktop over ssh

Hi,
I am wondering if someone has experience with Windows Desktop RDP over
ssh.

I have a windows XP computer at home. Unfortunately this is behind a
router, so with the exception of ssh it is inaccessible to the outside
world. (I am running a cygwin sshd server on it.) I have a Linux PC
outside where I work - and I sometimes need to connect to my home PC.
I am wondering if I can ssh from my linux PC to my home PC and port
forward - then use rdesktop to connect.

What have I tried?
I have read two articles about it at
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/RemoteDesktopSSH.html
and
http://www.bluestream.org/Networking/SSHTunnelRDP.htm

When locally logged on to my home computer I have started the cygwin
bash shell and tried

ssh -L 127.0.0.2:3390:127.0.0.1:3389 localhost

Then I tried using remote desktop to connect to 127.0.0.2:3390
i.e. connecting from the windows machine to itself - and this worked.


(Note: I have Win XP SP2 so I needed to install the patch at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;884020
)

I now logged on to my linux machine i.e. on the other side of the
router and tried

ssh -L 127.0.0.2:3390:127.0.0.1:3389 Usrname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I then started
rdesktop 127.0.0.2:3390
to get ERROR: connect: Connection refused (or rdesktop
localhost:3390 with same failure)

I also tried
ssh -L 3390:localhost:3389 Usrname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and I still get the same failure.

Lastly, I would like to note that windows remote desktop is enabled in
my windows firewall.

I hope someone has some ideas.
Regards,
O.O.

.

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