Comments on: RDP over SSH using port 443

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:48:33 +0000

Hi Elan – great post. I have followed your instructions and get to the point where I RDP to localhost, I then see my Windows loading screen and after about 10 seconds the 'circle' stops spinning around – the session appears to hang for another 20 seconds or so before it terminates. I am connecting from a windows 7 ultimate to a windows 7 professional o/s's and can rdp with no problems when on the same subnet. Any clues where to look? event viewer is less than helpful.

By: Elan Shudnow

Elan Shudnow — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:08:35 +0000

Sounds like the port forwarding isn't correct since it doesn't sound like the data is getting to the box.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 24 May 2011 20:14:41 +0000

I setup everything up correctly and I see the RDP login screen on my home computer. When I enter the username nad password nothing happens. The connection times out and never lets me remote to computer. Any suggestions?

By: Elan Shudnow

Elan Shudnow — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:01:32 +0000

That wouldn't accomplish anything. It would still be the same insecure protocol just listening on a different port. The goal here is to expose a secure SSH protocol over 443 and then that tunnels to RDP on the backend without RDP being exposed directly to the internet.

By: Gonza

Gonza — Tue, 10 May 2011 04:44:05 +0000

Why not just change the RDP listening port to 443 ?

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:28:08 +0000

Hi Elan —

Have you been able to get this to work when RDPing from a 2008 R2 box to a 2008 R2 box? I guess MS 'enhanced' the security, so now the RDP client won't connect and you end up with the following in the event log:

"The program lsass.exe, with the assigned process ID 632, could not authenticate locally by using the target name TERMSRV/192.168.10.21. The target name used is not valid. A target name should refer to one of the local computer names, for example, the DNS host name."

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:14:12 +0000

Good work thanks for the info

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By: Vit

Vit — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:56:58 +0000

I have the same problem as Steven – after I type username and password to mstsc, nothing happens and screen goes blank on remote computer. After a while I get RDP error.

I looks like some packets do not find their way to intended destination.

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:44:05 +0000

Hi, Looks good! I setup everything, when I connect with Remote Desktop I see the login screen but after I type my username/password nothing happens. Any ideas?