PuTTY

This is kinda the nerdy way of remoting a pc on a remote network. Usually a vpn connection would be preffered, but in my case I don’t want to forward the rdp port of security reasons. Lets use my setup as an example: At home I have a server running Debian linux, I also have several windows pc’s that I want to be able to use remote desktop to. Since I have already forwarded the ssh port (22) to my Debian server I figured I could use it as a jumpstation....

Did you know you use an SSH connection as a proxy using PuTTY? I didn’t until today 🙂 Fire up PuTTY but before you connect navigate to Connection–>SSH–>Tunnels. Here you can specify a port you want PuTTY to respond to proxy requests. Choose a port that is not in use on your localhost, I will use 8080 in this example. Choose Dynamic on Destination and click Add. In the forwarded ports part of the windows you will now see D8080....