ssh forwarding+remote desktop

Metroid · 06-23-2004, 01:02 PM

My school recently changed their firewall so that i cant ssh or remote desktop into any of my computers directly from outside the network. i can ssh into the computer science server and then from there into my linux computer but i also need to be able to use remote desktop when i am at work. Is it possible to use ssh port forwarding/ssh tunneling through the computer science dept computer to connect to remote desktop similar to how i can connect to ssh? if so how would this be done?

Thanks in advance.

david_ross · 06-23-2004, 01:33 PM

Yes you can you will need to forward the rdesktop port from your home windows machine to a port on the computer science machine and then probably onto your workstation as well.

Before getting into this sort of complex stuff - have you tried running your SSH server on a port other than 22? For example - if you don't have a webserver try it on port 80 and if you don't have a pop server try it on port 110.

Metroid · 06-23-2004, 03:14 PM

Thanks for the quick reply i will try that. ^_^