[stunnel-users] Help: Remote desktop connection crashes Stunnel

[Jonathan Bell]

In an attempt to get remote desktop set up over SSL tunneling with  
compression, I have installed stunnel on my Windows XP Professional SP2  
machine and created a "portable" stunnel/config/dll zip that just contains  
the essentials to create a pre-configured tunnel.

Here are the two config files:

Server
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; Sample stunnel configuration file by Michal Trojnara 2002-2005
; Some options used here may not be adequate for your particular  
configuration

; Certificate/key is needed in server mode and optional in client mode
; The default certificate is provided only for testing and should not
; be used in a production environment
cert = stunnel.pem
key = stunnel.pem

; Some performance tunings
socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1
socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1
compression = zlib

; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting
debug = 6
output = G:\Stunnel Logs\stunnel.log

taskbar = no

; Use it for client mode
client = no

; Service-level configuration

[remote-desktop]
accept  = 9833
connect = 127.0.0.1:3389

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Client
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; Sample stunnel configuration file by Michal Trojnara 2002-2005
; Some options used here may not be adequate for your particular  
configuration

; Some performance tunings
socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1
socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1
compression = zlib

; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting
debug = 7
output = stunnel.log

taskbar = yes

; Use it for client mode
client = yes

; Service-level configuration

[remote-desktop]
accept  = 127.0.0.1:6389	
connect = my.host.name:9833
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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.

What am I doing wrong?