I also usually tell the clients that their security setting are hurting productivity.
In some cases I guess it's justified but in most it's just a precaution for no good reason.
If EC2 is not suitable for said client, have them commission a server on their intranet and bill for the 2 months that you wait while they do that.
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The only surefire way I found is to run Oracle Secure Global Desktop encrypted on port 443 on box or VM at home or in a data centre and hop from there. Last place I was at used some sort of packet inspection so even running sshd on a home box on port 80 or 443 was blocked.Originally posted by DieScum View PostI've got a EC2 instance that I can connect to from home using mstsc.
Fails when I try from client site presumably because they are blocking the traffic. When I launch the mstsc shortcut it comes up with the standard can't connect error message. The same one you'd get if remote connections were disabled on the server.
Anyone know if there is anyway to get round that from AWS? Not really sure where to start.
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you have to get out of clientco's network first and some make it rather difficult.Originally posted by DieScum View PostI've got a EC2 instance that I can connect to from home using mstsc.
Fails when I try from client site presumably because they are blocking the traffic. When I launch the mstsc shortcut it comes up with the standard can't connect error message. The same one you'd get if remote connections were disabled on the server.
Anyone know if there is anyway to get round that from AWS? Not really sure where to start.
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Can't remote desktop to AWS EC2 instance at client site
I've got a EC2 instance that I can connect to from home using mstsc.
Fails when I try from client site presumably because they are blocking the traffic. When I launch the mstsc shortcut it comes up with the standard can't connect error message. The same one you'd get if remote connections were disabled on the server.
Anyone know if there is anyway to get round that from AWS? Not really sure where to start.Tags: None
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