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Tunneling RDP over SSH with the version 6 RDP Client

Posted by: Paulie | Comments (9)

I regularly use SSH to connect to customer systems and tunnel various different sorts of traffic through it (Telnet, ODBC, RDP etc). In certain cases, I have no other method of remote access to systems other than SSH.

This has not been a problem until I recently upgraded to Windows Vista which includes remote desktop connection v6, which will not allow connections to 127.0.0.1 on any port, it complains with the error message:

“The client could not connect. You are already connected to the console of this computer. A new console session cannot be established”

Which of course is true, if I were trying to connect to 3389.

So today after spending significant effort in the last couple of months I have found a simple solution to the problem:

Instruct your SSH client to listen on all interfaces for connections. For command line this means adding “-g” to your connection. I am using putty so ticking the box that says “local ports accept connections from other hosts” under Connection/SSH/Tunnels will do the job.

Putty

In the remote desktop client use 127.0.0.2 as the destination host and it will then happily pass through any tunnels you have created. For example 127.0.0.2:3390

I realize there probably are not that many people out there using SSH to tunnel RDP, but if you are then RDP 6 has been a real pain until now.

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Jan

Exchange 2003 SP2 IMF Keyword Manager

Posted by: Paulie | Comments (31)

Exchange 2003 sp2 comes with an updated intelligent message filter. One of the new features of the updated IMF is the ability to add a custom weighting file that gives administrators more control over incoming mail.

I have used this file a few times on customers systems, usually to allow certain automated e-mails through the IMF which were being incorrectly identified as spam.

The problem is that Microsoft have not included a GUI to edit the MSExchange.UceContentFilter.xml file. ?Ǭ�So it must be generated by hand, and while this isn’t difficult, it is not very convenient and it is easy to make a mistake.

I was looking for an excuse to have a play with Visual Basic 2005 and so I have made a little utility to make creating and managing the MSExchange.UceContentFilter.xml a little easier.

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