On Tuesday 03 October 2006 01:26, gentuxx wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Talking about security, is the vnc method the only way to secure this > > communication (for both machines)? Could there be perhaps ssh tunneling > > established between the two boxen before the rdp protocol kicks in? > > I believe the RDP connection is encrypted (using Diffie-Hellman or > whatever algorithm Windows likes these days). A quick sniff gets what > appears to be a key exchange and then a bunch of gobbledy-gook, so I > think you should be good to go, if you're using RDP (and not VNC). This > is based on vague recollections, and a quick sniff with wireshark, so, > please, don't take it as gospel.
I fear that I will not be able to use RDP with this particular box. Some years now I locked this WinXP down sooo much that it is now impervious to most attempts to connect to it. I tried to retrace my steps through the gpedit.msc and the registry but I can't reset everything to the wide-open M$Windows defaults. I could of course reinstall WinXP, but this would be a waste of my time - perhaps I could convince my wife to do it instead ;-) So, I will now try ssh+vnc which should hopefully work. BTW, I tried rdesktop with another box (work's laptop) to prove that there was nothing wrong with my Gentoo box and it worked as you described - except that when the remote terminal launched an error said something like: "The administrator does not allow interactive logins". It seems that my work's SysAdmins have locked this laptop down, but not as insanely as I did with my WinXP box. Thank you all for your help. -- Regards, Mick
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