Hi everyone,
First of all I apologize if this has been asked before or if I am totally misunderstanding the purpose of stunnel altogether. If so please bear with my ignorance.
I am an IT consultant and I manage about 20+ Windows-based servers. Some of these servers are accessible via VPN while others are accessible directly via RDP over the Internet. For those that are exposed to the net I am using the SSL certificate feature of Remote Desktop by going into “Terminal Services Configuration” and configuring the connection to use an SSL (most of the time a self-signed cert).
I can connect to these machines no problem from Windows and I get a “lock” icon in my RDP client. However I cannot connect to these machines using rdestkop under Ubuntu. I have determined that if I turn off the requirement to use SSL on the server side (and instead allow the connection to use the built-in encryption of RDP) then I am able to connect with rdesktop.
I would very much like to avoid rebooting just to connect to these servers. I am also not willing to remove the requirement for the SSL connection.
Is there a way I can use stunnel on my Ubuntu box to first establish a secure SSL connection and then use rdesktop over that connection?
I have searched high and low for info on this and found nothing. I have found instructions on how to use the Windows version of stunnel to secure RDP but that isn’t what I am trying to do. The server is already using an SSL cert to encrypt the connection (not sure how many people know Windows 2003 and up can do this). I am looking to get around the apparent lack of SSL support in rdesktop.
Best regards, Daren.