Black Box 1101, Secure Device Servers, 1102 manual Setting up SDT for Remote Desktop Access

Chapter 6: Secure SSH Tunneling and SDT Connector

SDT Connector will now use public key authentication when connecting through the SSH gateway (console server). You may have to restart SDT Connector to shut down any existing tunnels that were established using password authentication.

If you have a host behind the console server that you connect to by clicking the SSH button in SDT Connector, you may also want to configure access to it for public key authentication as well. This configuration is entirely independent of SDT Connector and the SSH gateway. You must configure the SSH client that SDT Connector launches (for example, Putty, OpenSSH) and the host’s SSH server for public key authentication.

Essentially what you are using is SSH over SSH, and the two SSH connections are entirely separate.

6.8 Setting up SDT for Remote Desktop Access

The Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) enables the system manager to securely access and manage remote Windows computers—to reconfigure applications and user profiles, upgrade the server’s operating system, reboot the machine, etc. Black Box’s Secure Tunneling uses SSH tunneling, so this RDP traffic is securely transferred through an authenticated and encrypted tunnel.

SDT with RDP also allows remote Users to connect to Windows XP, Vista, Server2003, and Server 2008 computers and to Windows 2000 Terminal Servers; and to access to all of the applications, files, and network resources (with full graphical interface just as though they were in front of the computer screen at work). To set up a secure Remote Desktop connection, enable Remote Desktop on the target Windows computer that you want to access and configure the RPD client software on the client PC.

6.8.1 Enable Remote Desktop on the Target Windows Computer to be Accessed

To enable Remote Desktop on the Windows computer being accessed:

Open System in the Control Panel and click the Remote tab.

Figure 6-22. System Properties screen.

Check Allow users to connect remotely to this computer.

Click Select Remote Users.

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