Comments on: Tunneling Remote Desktop over SSH in Windows 7

By: gsmith

gsmith — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:51:41 +0000

Thank you for posting this solution! I was stuck on 3390.

By: murat

murat — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:13:54 +0000

Spencer, thank you much for the great article. I just want to know how we can use and connect to a local host name, i mean, for example; i built up a website on localhost, i call it http://mysite/
How can i do it? I want to let myself and authorized persons to visit this local website remotely.

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By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:32:40 +0000

Great article, thanks! Any idea if the destination address can be 127.0.0.1:3389, rather than (say) 66.102.7.99:3389, or does Windows 7 block Remote Desktop connections to localhost:3389 in the same way it does to localhost:3390?

By: Spencer

Spencer — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:38:20 +0000

That’s a great suggestion. I have to go through a VPN to get to my machine at the BPRB, but I could tunnel through my machine in the Warnock and skip that whole mess.

By: Jacob Hinkle

Jacob Hinkle — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:27:50 +0000

Hey Spencer, if your remote box is behind a firewall you can also do a reverse ssh tunnel, then use this method you posted here. I use this to securely access my machine at the hospital without using a VPN. The only thing is you need the remote (firewalled) machine to connect to an intermediate accessible machine (in my case my workstation) and then run a cron job to check that the link is still up and if not reconnect. then you log in to the firewalled machine by sshing (or RDPing) to the tunneling port on the accessible machine. works like a charm. I know how to do this with openssh, but I’m not sure how to do it in putty if your remote host is also windows.

By: Salvatore Ventre

Salvatore Ventre — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:26:45 +0000

I tried with

1)3390

It doesn’t work , because of duplicate session

2) 3391
no connection to remote computer

3) 33??
no connection to remote computer
I don’t think is Firewall problem
Any hints?
Thank you

By: Abdurrahman

Abdurrahman — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:00:46 +0000

Thanks Man this really helped me out

By: Yayuca

Yayuca — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:43:36 +0000

Thanks, man!
Great post, I did solve my issues after I migrate to Win 7 at work.
Cheers!

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:41:08 +0000

Great info, changing the source port fixed my problem too. My configuration from Win7; I setup the tunnel in putty as source port 127.0.0.2:3391 and destination port [DestinationIp]:[DestinationRdpPort] . Destination computer is XP, and the tunnel goes through an Ubuntu 10.10 ssh server. I also enabled ssh compression in putty.