Ssh – Remote Desktop over SSH to Windows 7 box

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I have been using remote desktop to access a Windows 7 PC, tunneled over an SSH connection, successfully for a while now, until it suddenly stopped working.

The client is also Windows 7, and I double checked that the tunnel (with putty) was set up properly, and that remote desktop connections were enabled on the remote PC.

On the client I have a loopback adapter with a static IP of 10.0.0.1, and in putty I have 10.0.0.1:33891 forwarded to port 3389 on the remote server.

This worked fine till about a week ago, and I'm wondering what could possibly have happened? now the remote desktop client gets stuck at "configuring remote session" and then times out.

Any ideas?

Best Answer

I'm doing the exact same thing, WIN 7 and RDP over SSH, without problems. I've written an article on how I do it here: http://www.ronnieroller.com/articles/rdp_over_ssh_with_a_linksys_router

I'm using a different firmware on my linksys router in order to run an SSH server on it.