{"id":751,"date":"2007-03-24T00:18:06","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T00:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/secure-remote-administration-of-a-windows-computer.htm"},"modified":"2007-03-25T23:47:20","modified_gmt":"2007-03-25T22:47:20","slug":"secure-remote-administration-of-a-windows-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/secure-remote-administration-of-a-windows-computer.htm","title":{"rendered":"Secure, remote administration of a Windows computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to call this post &#8220;secure, remote administration of a Windows computer from within Windows&#8221; but that sounds a bit odd, unless you realise that the last two posts have been &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/secure-remote-administration-of-a-linux-computer-from-within-windows.htm\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Secure, remote administration of a Linux computer from within Windows\">secure, remote administration of a Linux computer from within Windows<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/secure-remote-administration-of-a-mac-os-x-computer-from-within-windows.htm\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Secure, remote administration of a Mac OS X computer from within Windows\">secure, remote administration of a Mac OS X computer from within Windows<\/a>&#8220;.  Basically, after getting SSH tunneling to work for administering Mac OS X and Linux machines, I thought that it would make sense to apply the same principles to Windows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfitz.com\/tips\/ssh_for_windows.html\">John Fitzgibbon&#8217;s comparison of free SSH and SCP programs for Windows 9x, NT, ME, 2000 and XP<\/a> explains the various SSH server options for Windows but one option he doesn&#8217;t mention is Tevfik Karag\u00c3\u00bclle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itefix.no\/\">CopSSH<\/a>, which I found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openssh.org\/windows.html\">a list of free SSH implementations recommended by OpenSSH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CopSSH bundles parts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openssl.org\/\">OpenSSL<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openssh.org\/\">OpenSSH<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cygwin.com\/\">Cygwin<\/a> into a Windows installer.  It&#8217;s straightforward to install, and includes a GUI interface to activate a user for SSH, including the generation of a public\/private key pair (saved to %programfiles%\\copSSH\\<em>username<\/em>\\<em>username<\/em>.key and %programfiles%\\copSSH\\<em>username<\/em>\\<em>username<\/em>.key.pub).  The private key needs to be imported into PuTTYgen after which it can be saved in PuTTY&#8217;s .PPK format and used as previously described for Mac OS X and Linux.  The only other point to note is that the sshd_config file is stored in %programfiles%\\copSSH\\etc and requires the same <code>AllowTcpForwarding yes<\/code> and <code>PasswordAuthentication no<\/code> settings as seen previously.<\/p>\n<p>To access the desktop via VNC, I installed UltraVNC Server on the target machine noting there are two settings that need to be configured for a successful connection through the SSH tunnel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A password must be defined for VNC connections.<\/li>\n<li>Loopback connections must be allowed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s fine for using an SSH tunnel to secure a VNC session, but why not tunnel remote desktop (RDP) connections to Windows servers instead of using VNC?  In theory, all that should involve is  changing the forwarded source port from <code>5900<\/code> (VNC) to <code>3389<\/code> (RDP) and setting the corresponding SSH port forwarding destination to <code>localhost:3389<\/code> but Windows doesn&#8217;t like that, producing an error message as follows:<\/p>\n<p><em>Remote Desktop Disconnected<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The client could not connect.  You are already connected to the console of this computer.  A new console session cannot be established.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One suggested fix is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluestream.org\/Networking\/SSHTunnelRDP.htm\">change the destination to use another address from the loopback range<\/a> (e.g. 127.0.0.2) but I found this just directed me to my own machine (as might be expected with a loopback).  For a while, it looked as though the resolution would be related to a change made in Windows XP service pack 2, which prevents connections to loopback addresses other than 127.0.0.1, and <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/?kbid=884020\">Microsoft knowledge base article 884020<\/a> includes a hotfix that alters this behaviour but I don&#8217;t think it helped me much (I later removed the hotfix and didn&#8217;t notice any differences).  Eventually I got things working by creating a new forwarded source port of <code>3390<\/code> and destination of <code>localhost:3389<\/code> for SSH port forwarding, after which I could connect using <code>mstsc \/v:loopback:3390<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an interesting few days getting acquainted with using SSH tunnels to securely connect to remote systems running a variety of operating systems &#8211; hopefully posting my experiences here will be useful to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to call this post &#8220;secure, remote administration of a Windows computer from within Windows&#8221; but that sounds a bit odd, unless you realise that the last two posts have been &#8220;secure, remote administration of a Linux computer from within Windows&#8221; and &#8220;secure, remote administration of a Mac OS X computer from within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/secure-remote-administration-of-a-windows-computer.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Secure, remote administration of a Windows computer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,53,43,39,16],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-windows","tag-remote-access","tag-security","tag-useful-software","tag-useful-websites"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Secure, remote administration of a Windows computer - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/secure-remote-administration-of-a-windows-computer.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Secure, remote administration of a Windows computer - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I was going to call this post &#8220;secure, remote administration of a Windows computer from within Windows&#8221; 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