rdesktop tunneling with ssh

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am Mi, den 01.12.2004 schrieb Richard Bankhead um 20:28:
> 
> > In FC2 I had it setup that I could ssh to my office site (FC2 machine at
> > home on DSL to Redhat 9 mail server at work) then run rdesktop to access
> > a Windoze server(not directly accessible to the outside).
> > 
> > Since I moved to FC3 I get the error "unable to open display" when I
> > attempt to run rdesktop through my ssh tunnel.  I tried using rdesktop
> > versions 1.2.0 and 1.3.1 but get the same error.
> 
> > Richard Bankhead
> 
> Did you read the FC3 release notes for OpenSSH changes?
> 
> Too: http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#3.13

BTW: rdesktop 1.3.1 appears to work with 'ssh -X' for me. But my
normal usage it not to do remote display of rdesktop - but run it
locally - and forward the connection via ssh. i.e

on FC3:
ssh rhl9-box -L23389:windows-box:3389
again on FC3:
rdesktop localhost:23389 

Satish