Re: Newbie: Using rdesktop and port forwarding

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 16:14 -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote:
> I'm making my first attempt at using rdesktop to connect to a server
> behind a firewall, and wonder if my scheme will work, and if so, if
> anyone can help me fill in the crucial details.
> 
> I have both a Windows 2003 Server and a Debian etch host behind a
> firewall. The firewall blocks Remote Desktop Connections (port 3389) but
> allows SSH. The Debian host has rdesktop 1.5.0 on it, installed from the
> Debian package. I'd like to connect to the W2003S using Remote Desktop
> to control it from outside the firewall. I think this should be possible
> with these steps:
>   * use a Linux host running XWindows from outside the firewall to
> connect to the Debian host inside the firewall using SSH with XWindows
> forwarding.
>   * use the Debian host inside the firewall to connect to the W2003S
> host using rdesktop, and forward this connection to the external Linux
> host.
> 
> Can anyone tell me if this scheme will work? If you were doing this, is
> this the way you'd do it? Is there another preferred method that might
> be more straightforward or easier? If this is the best, can anyone
> suggest exactly how this would be done? I don't have any experience with
> rdesktop or ssh port forwarding yet, and wanted to know if I'm heading
> in the right direction.
It'll work , but it'll be slow.

just use ssh's (or putty's) tunneling features  -L
33000:win2003host:3389

and run rdesktop (or windows remote desktop)
to connect to localhost:33000

brad


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