Remote Desktop over SSH to Windows 7 box

I have been using remote desktop to access a Windows 7 PC, tunneled over an SSH connection, successfully for a while now, until it suddenly stopped working.

The client is also Windows 7, and I double checked that the tunnel (with putty) was set up properly, and that remote desktop connections were enabled on the remote PC.

On the client I have a loopback adapter with a static IP of 10.0.0.1, and in putty I have 10.0.0.1:33891 forwarded to port 3389 on the remote server.

This worked fine till about a week ago, and I'm wondering what could possibly have happened? now the remote desktop client gets stuck at "configuring remote session" and then times out.

Any ideas?

Solution 1:

I'm doing the exact same thing, WIN 7 and RDP over SSH, without problems. I've written an article on how I do it here: http://www.ronnieroller.com/articles/rdp_over_ssh_with_a_linksys_router

I'm using a different firmware on my linksys router in order to run an SSH server on it.