Jonathan Bell wrote:
In an attempt to get remote desktop set up over SSL tunneling with compression
Remote desktop uses self-signed certs to do its own encryption and authorization, there is infact a knowledge base entry on what to do if this cert becomes corrupted. The tunnel is only susceptible to an MITM account, so there is no reason to use stunnel. Furthermore, excluding sound and files, RDP sends draw commands rather than trying to send images ala Netmeeting, thus its overhead is VERY small.
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[remote-desktop] accept = 127.0.0.1:6389 connect = my.host.name:9833
The procedure I used was as follows - start Stunnel on the host, run upstairs with the zipped "portable" stunnel on a USB drive, run stunnel on the other PC, also running XP Pro SP2. Start->run->mstsc, enter 127.0.0.1:6389 and all that happens is that stunnel instantly crashes then Remote Desktop times out.
RDP runs on 3389 not 9833, and changing the port is not supported on the client or the server.
What am I doing wrong?
If you have any other questions feel free to ask :)