Today I was working on a Windows system and on that windows system I wanted to connect via a SSH-tunnel to a RDP-server (another Windows system at my parents place). So I started putty with the command:
putty -L 3389:10.0.0.113:3389 [email protected]
And after that… I want to ‘Start‘ -> ‘Run…‘ -> ‘mstsc.exe‘ -> ‘OK‘ Connect to 127.0.0.1 And guess what… the client refuses:
So after some Google work I found that I have to change the ‘Compatibility mode‘ for mstsc.exe into ‘Windows 98 / Windows ME‘.
So I went to c:windowssystem32mstsc.exe and guess what:
But after some other search work, I found that you have to copy mstsc.exe and mstscax.dll to some other path, after that you can change the compatibility modus:
