Remote Desktop over SSH to Windows 7 box

windows-7 ssh remote-desktop putty ssh-tunnel

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I'm doing the exact same thing, WIN 7 and RDP over SSH, without problems. I've written an article on how I do it here: http://www.ronnieroller.com/articles/rdp_over_ssh_with_a_linksys_router

I'm using a different firmware on my linksys router in order to run an SSH server on it.

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mishac

Updated on September 17, 2022

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mishac over 1 year

I have been using remote desktop to access a Windows 7 PC, tunneled over an SSH connection, successfully for a while now, until it suddenly stopped working.

The client is also Windows 7, and I double checked that the tunnel (with putty) was set up properly, and that remote desktop connections were enabled on the remote PC.

On the client I have a loopback adapter with a static IP of 10.0.0.1, and in putty I have 10.0.0.1:33891 forwarded to port 3389 on the remote server.

This worked fine till about a week ago, and I'm wondering what could possibly have happened? now the remote desktop client gets stuck at "configuring remote session" and then times out.

Any ideas?
- Admin almost 15 years
  
  Do the PuTTY logs show anything? Click the PuTTY icon in the titlebar, and then choose Event Log.
- Admin over 14 years
  
  Putty ssh tunnel doesn't seem to work on Windows 7, I use git for source code repository and it comes with command line SSH and tunneling works great! code.google.com/p/msysgit
- Admin over 14 years
  
  Does the Windows 7 event logs show anything?
- Admin over 13 years
  
  Have you installed any windows updates on your machine? any changes to windows firewall on either device? Does the SSH tunnel still establish?
- Admin over 13 years
  
  tunnel establishes. Windows updates might be the issue? The tunnel is fine.
- Admin over 13 years
  
  sometimes everything works fine and you run a windows update and it breaks something...worth a try
mishac almost 15 years

I need ssh to access other machines on the network, and I have only the one port open. Though I'll admit part of it is old-school paranoia about leaving a windows service open to the net.
Matt over 13 years

Nice article, gave me just the right pointers to get my rdp connections tunnelling through my linux server to my windows desktops! tyvm!