Re: Windows Remote Desktop over ssh

"O. Olson" <olson_ord@xxxxxxxx> writes:

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

[raises hand]

> 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.

Should be able to. I've done it before, although not with my home
pc.

> 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.

127.0.0.2 ? I'm not entirely certain that's a legal address.

Try

ssh -L 3389:WINDOWSBOXIPADDRESS:3389 username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Then point the remote desktop at 127.0.0.1:3389 on your remote machine
from which you launched the ssh client.

WINDOWSBOXIPADDRESS would be the ip address it has on your lan, and
that can't legally be 127.0.0.2. 192.168.0.x perhaps depending on
your router's config.


--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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