[ale] rdesktop through a firewall?

[Jerry Yu]

Assume SNAT is used on both firewalls to allow outbound traffic:

   - Only DNAT is needed on the XP's firewall such that inbound TCP/3389
   traffic be directed to a particular XP boxen.
   - Nothing needs to be done on Rdestop's firewall, unless it denies all
   outbound TCP by default. In that case, you need to punch a hole to allow
   outbound TCP/3389 to leave, but no directing other than the default SNAT.


On 1/20/07, Michael Still <stillwaxin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> since rdesktop uses tcp i wouldn't set up any forwarding the the
> gateway closest to your client assuming its a plain old nat setup.  if
> all else fails put some packet sniffers around in various places to
> see where things are going wrong, starting with the xp "server".  i
> would rather do this through an ssh session if i were doing it myself
> tho.
>
> On 1/20/07, ale list <ale at gurlhax0r.org> wrote:
> > I'm trying to use rdesktop as follows:
> >
> > rdesktop<->smoothwall<->internet<->smoothwall<->xp
> >
> > I'm forwarding port 3389 on both firewalls to the appropriate
> > destination ip, but when I try:
> >
> > rdesktop -u user ip_address
> >
> > after a while I get: ERROR: connect: Connection timed out
> >
> > Anyone tried this?  What am I doing wrong?
> >
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