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Comment 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.

Comment on Tunneling Remote Desktop over SSH in Windows 7 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.

Comment on Why I Love the Lenovo X200s by Dean Kirkland

Dean Kirkland — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:51:24 +0000

That’s some pretty cool battery life!

I’ve never had a Lenovo before but I recently picked one up for great price at Office Depot. Man, the screen beau-ti-ful and it runs like a trooper. Happy owner here.

Comment on Tunneling Remote Desktop over SSH in Windows 7 by Connecting from a Windows 7 PC to your home PC via | esynrg.com Technology Blog

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:54:46 +0000

[...] I came across this article which specifically talked about Windows 7. It noted that on Windows 7, 3390 was not available for [...]

Comment on Tunneling Remote Desktop over SSH in Windows 7 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?

Comment on Why I Love the Lenovo X200s by Scott Alexander

Scott Alexander — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:57:45 +0000

I’m interested to see this model of Lenovo. I’m happy to know there is a device that is capable of giving ab battery life of 8-10 hours. There are only few devices that can give long batter span. Another device i knew is from Samsung. It could last up to 11 hours. Long batter span is really important for me because I often travels with a laptop always with me.

Comment on A Quick Look at the HP ex485 MediaSmart Server by Ian

Ian — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:05:09 +0000

I know this post is a bit old, but man I can relate to it. The amount of digital stuff (music, photos, movies, etc.) that you can collect is mind boggling.

I really like your solution. And the good news is, prices have come down but the basic concept of what you’re doing is still spot on. I’ll be “borrpwing” it.

Comment on Tunneling Remote Desktop over SSH in Windows 7 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.

Comment on Tunneling Remote Desktop over SSH in Windows 7 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.

Comment on Tunneling Remote Desktop over SSH in Windows 7 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