Re: Remote Desktop from Linux console

Well, if your running a SSH server on L you can connect to V using RDC through the SSH tunnel. I do, or did, that all the time when I ran a SSH server on either a PC inside my router or on the router itself, ie. DD-WRT running on the router. Do you have a SSH server running on L? There are loads of examples of port forwarding RDC through a SSH tunnel. Here are two I have used with either the Tunnelier or PuTTY SSH clients, both Windows programs. In my case I used the regular Windows RDC client to connect through the tunnel to multiple PCs.

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/Configure-Tunnelier.html

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/RemoteDesktopSSH.html

Is your remote client a LINUX box?

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=linux+ssh+port+forward&src=IE-SearchBox

I haven't used a LINUX box since I retired almost six years ago so I can't answer your samba question. You might start a new thread about that or hopefully someone else can chime in to help...

--

Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows - Desktop User Experience)

Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the
mutual benefit of all of us...
The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights...
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

"Uncle Sam" <sameervijaykar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:732b77b8-4fdf-4f01-9637-1918dacd1cc9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Perhaps this diagram will make my situation more clear:
http://sameervijaykar.googlepages.com/firewall.jpg
All the hosts inside the firewall can be accessed only through the
host L. Now since L is not running an X server, I cannot start an RDP
session to V from L. I created an ssh connection from L to L2 which
does run an X server but even there I could not start an RDP session,
probably because L is not tunneling the X11 connection. So is there a
way I can start a console RDP connection (either from L or L2) to V?

A different but related question is as follows: I have shared some
folders from V. I tried to access these shares from L using
'smbclient' but I got the following error: "session setup failed:
SUCCESS - 0". Any clues? Perhaps I should post this as a separate
query.

.

Relevant Pages

  • SSH Tunnel Connection Failures
    ... I'm setting up an SSH tunnel which initally works, ... after the connection is established I start getting error messages ... Tunnel is between Machine A and the SSH Server, ...
    (comp.security.ssh)
  • Re: initiating connection from the remote host
    ... One way is to use a SSH tunnel and the Tunnelier SSH client. ... work laptop, whichever one is running the SSH server software. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely)
  • Re: Remote Desktop from Linux console
    ... Lastly I forgot to point you to the ssh man page, which I am sure you know about, if your running LINUX on the remote machine. ... Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows - Desktop User Experience) ... I do, or did, that all the time when I ran a SSH server on either a PC inside my router or on the router itself, ie. DD-WRT running on the router. ... There are loads of examples of port forwarding RDC through a SSH tunnel. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing)
  • Re: get into the private campus server
    ... cooperating ssh server. ... the connection over the long term, ... Of course if you then use that tunnel to move massive amounts of traffic ... you're not careful and the outside ssh server gets compromised, ...
    (comp.os.linux.networking)
  • Re: What is The SSH?
    ... Building and Using SSH Tunnels ... What is an SSH tunnel? ... how to use it to make a connection to a server. ... You will need a working SSH client and server installation to build and test ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.networking)