Comments on: Setup Remote Desktop Port Forwarding In Windows Vista

By: Stephen Reese

Stephen Reese — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:53:47 +0000

That worked well, thanks!

By: John Leveille

John Leveille — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:19:11 +0000

I have used local port forwarding and remote port forwarding. I usually use port forwarding to tunnel remote desktop. This works great over local port forward, but remote desktop hangs after login when using a remote port forward. Anybody know why?

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By: Walker

Walker — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:35:48 +0000

Glad to hear that.
In fact, RDP itself is secured as compare to VNC connection. So, it’s not really to use RDP over SSH port forwarding (unless for the above purpose – to simplify firewall rules setup for various inbound connections.)

By: Cyne

Cyne — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:04:57 +0000

Thanks for the reply, as you seem to have guessed it probably lies in the SSH server program.

I solved the problem by changing SSH-server program on the XP machine. I can’t remember the old ones name, but I changed to cygwin and now it works as intended.

I think the problem was something in the lines of that the old SSH-server program didn’t support SSH2, while Vista ONLY support SSH2. So no matter if I tried SSH1 onlt or SSH2 only, one of the computers didn’t support it. This is just my speculations though.

If anyone else run in to the same problem, I really recommend getting cygwin and following this guide (the one that I used):
http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html
It takes you through the setup process step-by-step with easy-to-follow pictures.

By: Walker

Walker — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:49:22 +0000

Hi Cyne,

From your comment, you said

1) You’re able to RDP directly to XP from Vista without using SSH
2) You’re able to SSH directly to XP SSH server

I assume that both RDP and SSH are working well.

Are you running SSH server with WinSSH alike Windows program in XP or you’re running VMWare in XP that power a Linux OS with full function of OpenSSH?

(So far, I’ve only tried to RDP from my Vista Ultimate to Windows 20003 over SSH port forwarding on RHEL4 OpenSSH machine. The Windows SSH server might not working with port forwarding – please confirm with the documentation.)

After attempting to connect to SSH-XP, have you checked the XP Events Log (in case you’re running Windows SSH)?