[LUNI] swimming upstream on SSH or VPN

[Chris McKeever]

Ive had luck with Putty and all sorts of remote desktop forwarding
make up a FAKE port that you want the local machine to listen to for
the rdesktop forward, I usually use 55555


On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> wrote:
> thanks Chris, yes that's kinda what I want.
>
>  Unfortunately, in playing with this Putty's remote forwarding doesn't
>  seem to play well with rdesktop or M$ remote desktop.  Things work ok
>  if I use a real SSH client from the work side, but when I use putty
>  from the work side rdesktop hangs on login (I do get a login screen
>  from the work M$ machine).
>
>  Thanks
>  Jay
>
>
>
>  On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Chris McKeever <cgmckeever at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Is this what you are looking for?
>  > http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10879-5779944.html?tag=nl.e011
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> wrote:
>  > > Hi,
>  > >
>  > >  I realized what I'm trying to do might be more complicated (or
>  > >  impossible) then I realized.  I have the following arrangement.
>  > >
>  > >  (Home)                           (Work)
>  > >
>  > >  mswin-|                               |--mswin
>  > >     --linksys ---internet----some_router
>  > >  linux-|
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >  My linksys router at home forwards port 22 to the Linux box on its network.
>  > >
>  > >  What I wanted to do was run "putty" from work, build a tunnel, so that
>  > >  at home I could jump on my mswin machine and do a M$ remote desktop,
>  > >  operating on port 3389, back to my mswin machine at work (via the
>  > >  remote tunnel)
>  > >
>  > >  I do not have a ssh server or userid on my work side of the
>  > >  environment to which I can connect, so the ssh has to be out-bound
>  > >  from work.
>  > >
>  > >  Is there anyway to ssh from work to home, (I'll end up logging into my
>  > >  linux box at home), and then using the previously established tunnel,
>  > >  get on my home mswin box to do a remote desktop of my work machine?
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >  Thanks
>  > >  Jay
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