Secure entry into remote systems

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 19 May 2004, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:

> the _few_ situations i need
>   rdesktop/w2k-terminal-server
>   Xnest,...
>   VNC, timbuktu, pcanywhere, ...
> 
> i forward the needed port(s) on the firewall to the real-server for
> the short-time and close it afterwards,

I haven't used others - but rdesktop to Win2K-Server/WinXP can be
tunneled through ssh. The port to forward is 389.

ssh -L10000:win2k-ts:389 gateway
rdesktop localhost:10000

As long the client can take a 'port' option - most things can be
tunneled. I've also tunneld lpr (requires LPRng-lpr), SMB (smbmount..)
etc..

Satish