2003 Terminal Services Security

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Louis

Hi,

I'm looking for some suitable ways of securing my Terminal
Server. And I have two questions:

1. I'm thinking of only allowing SSH sessions through to
my TS box, what software do you guys recommend? Preferably
some open source (Woops! can I say those words here?) What
are you's using to do the job? I've looked as cygwin and
some others and they look good but I'd like to read your
opinion on this also.

2. I only want Administrator or power user logons to come
from a certain IP, Can 2003 Server do it? If So how do I
set it up?

Regards
Louis Persohn
 
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-----Original Message-----
Hi,

I'm looking for some suitable ways of securing my Terminal
Server. And I have two questions:

1. I'm thinking of only allowing SSH sessions through to
my TS box, what software do you guys recommend? Preferably
some open source (Woops! can I say those words here?) What
are you's using to do the job? I've looked as cygwin and
some others and they look good but I'd like to read your
opinion on this also.
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I'm sure there are some open source things out there to do
this, but terminal services comes with 128-bit encryption
built in, so you might want to ask yourself is SSH is
really that necessary.
2. I only want Administrator or power user logons to come
from a certain IP, Can 2003 Server do it? If So how do I
set it up?

Regards
Louis Persohn
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You can adjust who can login through terminal services by
double clicking on your rdp-tcp connection in the terminal
services configuration. However, restricting who can
connect from certain IP addresses is something that isn't
built into terminal services. You might have better luck
with a firewall solution (as that is how I do it).

-M
 
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