Moo On April 18, 2015 10:43:47 PM EDT, John Andersen wrote:

On April 18, 2015 5:17:09 PM PDT, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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All,

-- goal --

I want to be able to "remote desktop" from my house to my office, but a NAT firewall is blocking me and I don't have the ability to open a hole in the firewall. The target machine is a Windows 7 PC.

I setup logmein hamachi, and I've been very disappointed how often it goes down / fails, so I want to use my own infrastructure.

I have a cloud based openSUSE box I can use to build a reverse tunnel on, so I'm hoping a "remote desktop" session can be routed through the cloud based server.

-- history --

I have in the past needed to remotely log into a openSUSE PC hidden behind a NAT router which I did not have control of the router to setup a firewall forwarding rule.

I used autossh on the target opensuse box to establish a reverse tunnel to a cloud based linux server.

Then anytime I wanted to ssh into the target I just ssh'ed into the cloud based server and my connection got forwarded to the target opensuse box.

I hoping to somehow do something similar, but with MS remote desktop this time.

-- ideas --

I'm totally flexible on how this is accomplished. The opensuse server in the cloud doesn't have to be part of the solution, but I suspect using it as a SSH forwarder will be my best option to let me tunnel remote desktop traffic through it most.

Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer

There are some Google hits on autossh from Windows.

Google Chrome has a capability as well. But I've not used that on an unintended Windows box.

I found this which describes autossh from Windows: http://blog.yucas.mx/2012/11/22/creating-persistent-ssh-tunnels-in-windows-u... But I want a gui, not a command line. I guess I need a way to push port 3389 traffic to connect to ssh. I've done it with port 80 in Linux, so I guess I can do it with port 3389 with Windows. Greg -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

В Sat, 18 Apr 2015 23:33:23 -0400 greg.freemyer@gmail.com пишет:

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I found this which describes autossh from Windows: http://blog.yucas.mx/2012/11/22/creating-persistent-ssh-tunnels-in-windows-u...

But I want a gui, not a command line.

You setup autossh which forwards remote port to local port (e.g. 3389). Then you simply connect to remote port on remote system using remote desktop or whatever.

I made enough progress to start a blog post: //lizards.opensuse.org/?p=11334 I got it working if I manually type in the ssh line in "cmd". I ran out of time to troubleshoot the final stage of getting it setup as a Win 7 service. If anyone has time to figure that, it would be great. I may not have time for a couple days. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org