[ale] rdesktop through a firewall?

Jerry Yu jjj863 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 20 13:25:37 EST 2007


Tina, can you rdesktop to the XP box on its own LAN?   RemoteDestkop could
be disabled on XP or disallowed by its personal firewall.
On Windows XP, try 'netstat -p tcp -a -n' to determine whether TCP/3389 is
listening.

On 1/20/07, Michael Still <stillwaxin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> since rdesktop uses tcp i wouldn't set up any forwarding the the
> gateway closest to your client assuming its a plain old nat setup.  if
> all else fails put some packet sniffers around in various places to
> see where things are going wrong, starting with the xp "server".  i
> would rather do this through an ssh session if i were doing it myself
> tho.
>
> On 1/20/07, ale list <ale at gurlhax0r.org> wrote:
> > I'm trying to use rdesktop as follows:
> >
> > rdesktop<->smoothwall<->internet<->smoothwall<->xp
> >
> > I'm forwarding port 3389 on both firewalls to the appropriate
> > destination ip, but when I try:
> >
> > rdesktop -u user ip_address
> >
> > after a while I get: ERROR: connect: Connection timed out
> >
> > Anyone tried this?  What am I doing wrong?
> >
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