Cannot tunnel into Remote Desktop

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charlesroper

Hi, I've been using OpenSSH to tunnel into my home computer
(previously WinXP) for a while now, but since upgrading to Vista, I
can no longer do so. Here are the facts:

* I have OpenSSH (OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007) setup
under Cygwin on a Vista Home Premium machine listening on 443

* I'm using Bitvise Tunnelier to connect to the server

* I can ssh into the machine without problem and can also tunnel
through to a couple of IRC servers, so both the SSH server and
tunnelling appear to be working.

* Remote Desktop is listening on port 3389, and the local IP of the
computer I'm connecting to is 192.168.1.2

* I have forwarding setup like so:
Listen Interface: 127.0.0.1:3390
Destination Host: 192.168.1.2:3389

* On the RD Client side I'm connecting to localhost:3389. "Always ask
for credentials" is checked. "Always connect, even if authentication
fails" is selected. "Do not use a TS Gateway server" is checked.

When I try and connect, I get the following message:

This computer can't connect to the remote computer.
Try connecting again. If the problem continues, contact the owner of
the remote computer of your network administrator.

This is what I get in the Tunnelier log:

14:30:40.040 Accepted client-side client-2-server connection from
127.0.0.1:2255 to 192.168.1.2:3389.
14:30:41.041 Server rejected our attempt to open a client-side
client-2-server connection - reason: SSH_OPEN_CONNECT_FAILED,
description: Connection refused.
14:30:41.041 Closing client-side client-2-server connection from
127.0.0.1:2255 to 192.168.1.2:3389, sent: 0, received: 0.

Could anyone offer any help in troubleshooting this issue?

Many thanks,

Charles
 
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Sooner Al [MVP]

Hi, I've been using OpenSSH to tunnel into my home computer
(previously WinXP) for a while now, but since upgrading to Vista, I
can no longer do so. Here are the facts:

* I have OpenSSH (OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007) setup
under Cygwin on a Vista Home Premium machine listening on 443

* I'm using Bitvise Tunnelier to connect to the server

* I can ssh into the machine without problem and can also tunnel
through to a couple of IRC servers, so both the SSH server and
tunnelling appear to be working.

* Remote Desktop is listening on port 3389, and the local IP of the
computer I'm connecting to is 192.168.1.2

* I have forwarding setup like so:
Listen Interface: 127.0.0.1:3390
Destination Host: 192.168.1.2:3389

* On the RD Client side I'm connecting to localhost:3389. "Always ask
for credentials" is checked. "Always connect, even if authentication
fails" is selected. "Do not use a TS Gateway server" is checked.

When I try and connect, I get the following message:

This computer can't connect to the remote computer.
Try connecting again. If the problem continues, contact the owner of
the remote computer of your network administrator.

This is what I get in the Tunnelier log:

14:30:40.040 Accepted client-side client-2-server connection from
127.0.0.1:2255 to 192.168.1.2:3389.
14:30:41.041 Server rejected our attempt to open a client-side
client-2-server connection - reason: SSH_OPEN_CONNECT_FAILED,
description: Connection refused.
14:30:41.041 Closing client-side client-2-server connection from
127.0.0.1:2255 to 192.168.1.2:3389, sent: 0, received: 0.

Could anyone offer any help in troubleshooting this issue?

Many thanks,

Charles

Don't use TCP Port 3390 as the redirect port. Use another random port, ie.
3391 or higher, for the redirect port. There is an issue using 3390 as the
redirect port with Vista. I forget now the exact issue though...

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Sooner Al [MVP]

Sooner Al said:
Don't use TCP Port 3390 as the redirect port. Use another random port, ie.
3391 or higher, for the redirect port. There is an issue using 3390 as the
redirect port with Vista. I forget now the exact issue though...

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Actually its the RDP 6.0 client that has an issue with using port 3390 as
the localhost listening port.

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Sooner Al [MVP]

Sooner Al said:
Don't use TCP Port 3390 as the redirect port. Use another random port, ie.
3391 or higher, for the redirect port. There is an issue using 3390 as the
redirect port with Vista. I forget now the exact issue though...

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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Also make sure the Vista RDP host is configured like this...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/ScreenShots/XP/RDP6-XPClienttoVistaServerConfig.jpg

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charlesroper

Don't use TCP Port 3390 as the redirect port. Use another random port, ie.
Also make sure the Vista RDP host is configured like this...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/ScreenShots/XP/RDP6-XPClienttoV...

Thank you for the advice. I've tried changing the listening port to
4000 but I'm still getting the same error. I'll have to wait until I
get home to check the other setting. I'll let you know how I get on by
posting back here.

Cheers,
Charles
 
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Charles Roper

* I have OpenSSH (OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007) setup
under Cygwin on a Vista Home Premium machine listening on 443

The clue was in the Windows version: Vista Home Premium doesn't have
full remote desktop connections. :-(

I'm now going to try UltraVNC instead. The mirror driver (video hook
driver) didn't work too well for it as it knocked our Aero Glass, but
other than that, it seems like it might make an adequate alternative.

Charles
 
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Sooner Al [MVP]

Charles Roper said:
The clue was in the Windows version: Vista Home Premium doesn't have
full remote desktop connections. :-(

I'm now going to try UltraVNC instead. The mirror driver (video hook
driver) didn't work too well for it as it knocked our Aero Glass, but
other than that, it seems like it might make an adequate alternative.

Charles

I missed that completely...

Thanks for the feed back...

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charlesroper

Well, I've got UltraVNC working on the tunnel, but boy is it slow
compared to RD. I'm really starting to regret 'upgrading' to Vista
Home Premium now; I could go with Ultimate, I know, but it's so
expensive. :-/

Charles
 
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Sooner Al [MVP]

Well, I've got UltraVNC working on the tunnel, but boy is it slow
compared to RD. I'm really starting to regret 'upgrading' to Vista
Home Premium now; I could go with Ultimate, I know, but it's so
expensive. :-/

Charles

That has been my experience in the past also, ie. VNC (any flavor) was a lot
slower than Remote Desktop.

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Charles Roper

That has been my experience in the past also, ie. VNC (any flavor) was a lot
slower than Remote Desktop.

When I used to use UltraVNC on XP before I used Remote Desktop, and I
had its video hook driver installed, it was pretty good, although
still not quite as fast as RD. Now without the video hook driver, it
really grinds.

Has anyone else got UltraVNC going on Vista with the video hook driver
AND Aero?

Cheers,
Charles
 
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Sooner Al [MVP]

Charles Roper said:
When I used to use UltraVNC on XP before I used Remote Desktop, and I
had its video hook driver installed, it was pretty good, although
still not quite as fast as RD. Now without the video hook driver, it
really grinds.

Has anyone else got UltraVNC going on Vista with the video hook driver
AND Aero?

Cheers,
Charles

Charles,

Have you searched, lurked, posted this to the UltraVNC forums?

http://forum.ultravnc.info/

That's probably the best place to find this information. Good luck and
please post back if you get this running. Thanks...

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