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Windows 11 Remote Desktop Client won't allow different porrt

Charlie Finan 21 Reputation points
2022-05-25T19:32:14.67+00:00

I have used remote desktop with a ssh tunnel to log into remote machines over the internet. This was accomplished by pointing to localhost:someport. Windows 11 RDP complains that I can't specify a port (: is illegal). Is there a way around this???

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-05-25T20:08:26.343+00:00

    Maybe this was a typo? The highest port number is 65535

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-05-25T19:33:58.793+00:00

    Do you have a screenshot?

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  2. Charlie Finan 21 Reputation points
    2022-05-25T20:04:44.487+00:00

    205540-rdp2.png205573-rdp-pic.png

    Above are the screenshots you requested. As I mentioned, this method worked fine on Win10 and earlier. The localhost port was forwarded using putty's ssh functions to point to another windows 11 host.

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  3. Charlie Finan 21 Reputation points
    2022-05-25T20:08:49.83+00:00

    You can cancel the problem...looks like I had a bad port address. Sorry and thanks for your help!

    Charlie

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