tunneling Win2K Terminal Services over SSH or zebedee

On the server machine, an SSH2 server such as WinSSHD must be installed. On the client machine, an SSH2 client, such as Tunnelier, must be configured so that connections on port 3389 will be forwarded to the Remote Desktop server. One must then direct the Remote Desktop client to connect to the SSH2 client instead of directly to the server, and the connection will be forwarded over the SSH2-secured link.

Hi,

Thanks for the input.  That sounds about right, but it's one step too many.  Is it possible to write a script, either batch or WSH script to automate that all in one step?  

Double click on the script and it will initiate the SSH connection, start up Terminal Service Client, and connect to the server.  I guess the script might have to do some monitoring perhaps.  

-scott

You can script the SSH connection fairly easily with the commercial SSH client from http://www.ssh.com/ and I am sure that you could do it with SecureCRT, putty (free) and others.

Here are the 2 commands you would have to run. I dont know much about WSH but this should be trivial.

ssh2 -l username sshserver.domain.com -L 3389:ts.domain.com:3389

c:\windows\system32\mstsc.exe /v:localhost

Unless you setup certificates this will require you to enter the SSH user password each time.

This will not work with XP, it will not allow you to try to connect to localhost with TS Client. It will with 2000.

Hi everyone,

This looks good so far.  

Hi atreyu138,

Excellent, this looks good.