Guest kramer31 Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Hi. I need to use Remote Desktop to perform administrative tasks on a company server. I'm worried about people stealing passwords or snooping on the session. 1. Does Remote Desktop use a secure socket protocol by default (if not it probably should)? 2. If not, can I set it up to use SSL for both a. authentication (to prevent password theft) b. the entire session (to prevent snooping) Thanks.
Guest Robert L [MVP - Networking] Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 Re: Secure Remote Desktop? You may want to use VPN. Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "kramer31" <kramer.newsreader@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1184715821.775584.182820@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com... Hi. I need to use Remote Desktop to perform administrative tasks on a company server. I'm worried about people stealing passwords or snooping on the session. 1. Does Remote Desktop use a secure socket protocol by default (if not it probably should)? 2. If not, can I set it up to use SSL for both a. authentication (to prevent password theft) b. the entire session (to prevent snooping) Thanks.
Guest Brian Spolarich Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 Re: Secure Remote Desktop? "kramer31" <kramer.newsreader@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1184715821.775584.182820@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com... > Hi. I need to use Remote Desktop to perform administrative tasks on a > company server. I'm worried about people stealing passwords or > snooping on the session. http://www.bitvise.com/winsshd (Windows SSH server, not free) http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier (Windows SSH client, free) A good combo. You get automatic RDP tunneling with the client, so you can connect to your SSH server w/ strong authentication and strong encryption. You do have to open port 22 (ssh) through your firewall. Otherwise, VPN. OpenVPN and SSLExplorer are free, but require some work to get going.
Guest Greg O Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: Secure Remote Desktop? On Jul 17, 4:43 pm, kramer31 <kramer.newsrea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. I need to use Remote Desktop to perform administrative tasks on a > company server. I'm worried about people stealing passwords or > snooping on the session. > > 1. Does Remote Desktop use a secure socket protocol by default (if not > it probably should)? > 2. If not, can I set it up to use SSL for both > > a. authentication (to prevent password theft) > b. the entire session (to prevent snooping) > > Thanks. Remote Desktop already uses encryption, for example you can see the settings for this using terminal server. You can use https (i.e. SSL) with Remote Web Workplace in 2003 Small Business Server.
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