On Wed, 19 May 2004, shrek-m@xxxxxx wrote: > the _few_ situations i need > rdesktop/w2k-terminal-server > Xnest,... > VNC, timbuktu, pcanywhere, ... > > i forward the needed port(s) on the firewall to the real-server for > the short-time and close it afterwards, I haven't used others - but rdesktop to Win2K-Server/WinXP can be tunneled through ssh. The port to forward is 389. ssh -L10000:win2k-ts:389 gateway rdesktop localhost:10000 As long the client can take a 'port' option - most things can be tunneled. I've also tunneld lpr (requires LPRng-lpr), SMB (smbmount..) etc.. Satish