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Select the
Serial & Network: Serial Port
menu option and click
Edit
(for the particular Serial Port
that is connected to the Windows computer COM port).
On the SDT Settings menu, select
SDT Mode
(this will enable port forwarding and SSH tunneling)
and enter a
Username
and
User Password.
Note
When you enable SDT, it will override all other Configuration protocols on that port.
Note
If you leave the
Username
and
User Password
fields blank, they default to
portXX
and
portXX
where XX is the serial port number. The default username and password for Secure RDP over
Port 2 is
port02.
Make sure the
console server
Common Settings
(Baud Rate, Flow Control) are the same as those
set up on the Windows computer COM port and click
Apply.
RDP and VNC forwarding over serial ports is enabled on a Port basis. You can add
Users
who can
have access to these ports (or reconfigure
User
profiles) by selecting
Serial & Network: User &
Groups
menu tag—as described earlier in Chapter 4,
Configuring Serial Ports.
6.10.3 Set up SDT Connector to SSH port forward over the
console server
Serial Port
In the
SDT Connector
software running on your remote computer, specify the gateway IP address of
your
console server
and a username/password for a user you set up on the
console server
that has
access to the desired port.
Next, add a New SDT Host. In the Host address, put portxx, where xx = the port you are connecting to.
Example: for port 3 you would have a Host Address of: port03. Then select the RDP Service check box.
6.11
SSH Tunneling using other SSH clients (e.g. PuTTY)
As covered in the previous sections of this chapter, we recommend that you use the
client software that is supplied with the
console server
. There’s also a wide selection of commercial and
free SSH client programs that can provide the secure SSH connections to the
console server
s and secure
tunnels to connected devices:
-
PuTTY is a complete (though not very user friendly) freeware implementation of SSH for Win32 and
UNIX platforms.
-
SSHTerm is a useful open source SSH communications package.
