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If you’re an SSH tunneler like myself, you know that you can’t use RDP with a tunnel reflected off yourself (localhost). I just figured out how to do this. Though, it’s rather simple and I’m somewhat ashamed that I didn’t think of it before. Just add a line to your C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file.

127.0.0.1 me

I then used an SSH tunnel to redirect the port number as well.

ssh ... -L 3390:192.168.0.85:3389 ...

This will redirect port 3390 to the RDP port, 3389. Now connect to me:3390 for RDP.

I’ve been eating up alot of my free time installing and configuring an Asterisk server. Asterisk is an Open Source PBX (private branch exchange) which you can use as a mega-answering machine, a conference center for your family, and a home automation interface, amoung an infinity of other clever things. I’ve cataloged my worklog of installing and configuring it so that I can come back later and not worry about forgetting what I did. It should be a fairly concise, if not obtuse, guide to installing it yourself. It’s not quite complete yet, I’ve got to add some more config information but the bulk of it is there.

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I can’t believe I actually wrote this up. All the movies I’ve seen since I’ve lived in Dallas.