[Gllug] [OT] SSH or VPN?

[Dan Kolb]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:17:59PM +0100, Tom Weissmann wrote:
> This effectively removes our access from important information, unless 
> we work off two computers at once, and I was wondering if the following 
> was viable:
> 
> - the client runs an SSH server
> - we connect to their SSH server and specify the host we want
> - their server forwards the host's port 3389 to us
> - we connect with Windows Remote Desktop Connection (or VNC and a 
> different port).
> 
> Could this be done, and securely?

Yes. Take a look at ssh port forwarding: you'd ssh to their server, and say you
want to forward the remote host's port to something on your local end, and then
connect your RDP to localhost:3389 (f'rexample).

Dan

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