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    Win7 Remote Desktop via tunneling

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by cephasara, Mar 20, 2009.

  1. cephasara

    cephasara Notebook Consultant

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    Is there a way I can connect to a local port in Windows 7? In XP and Vista I just used puTTY to tunnel then typed 127.0.0.1:3389 to connect and it did the trick. On Windows 7 I read they removed support for local IPs. WHY?? I'm really ticked.

    I'm on a college campus with a retarded and overbearing IT support staff that blocks every port except 21, 80, 8080, and maybe 3 other useless ports. So I REALLY need this to work. I don't want to kiss windows 7 goodbye for one lousy screw up.

    Please help me! Even if there's a way to copy remote desktop from Vista and inject it into Windows 7 by replacing the Win7 version I'm up for it. I'd like all the new features of this one.. but connecting to local IPs is waay more important to me.
     
    cephasara, Mar 20, 2009
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  2. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    I don't really know much about this but...did you try the remote desktop connection that is included in W7?
     
    JCMS, Mar 20, 2009
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  3. cephasara

    cephasara Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah. It won't work because I heard Microsoft removed local port support with Remote Desktop. I'm wondering if there's any way to enable it, ie. copy some files over or something like that.
     
    cephasara, Mar 21, 2009
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  4. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Sorry, but you can't hack up operating systems like that. W7's RDC cannot be replaced by Vista's RDC.

    I'd wait until W7 comes out as a retail product, as it is currently in beta/RC stages and I'm sure a few things are not 100% functional yet.
     
    Greg, Mar 21, 2009
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