Re: Remote Desktop from Linux console

Do you have a VPN or SSH server running on anything, ie on L for example, inside the firewall that you can connect to from the public internet? If so you could run the normal Remote Desktop [RDC] client software on a Windows client or rdesktop on a LINUX client and connect to V after establishing the VPN or SSH tunnel. No matter how you want to connect to V from the outside you need a hole in your firewall that you can get through.

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/SSH-HomeUser.html

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"Uncle Sam" <sameervijaykar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:d3f66de7-1cd9-466d-b2ee-c9dac882f51f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a Vista host (V) running on a computer inside a firewalled
network. I am outside the firewall and so cannot access the computer
directly. However, I have access to a Linux host (L) which can access
'V'. Now I have an RDP server running on 'V' which accepts any RDP
connection without a prompt. But an X server is not running on 'L' so
that I cannot open an 'rdesktop' window. Is there a way to access 'V'
from 'L' purely through the command line using the RDP server running
on 'V'?

P.S.: Sorry for the abbreviations. But it got a bit confusing without
them due all the 'host's.

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