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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 SDT Connector
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 servers 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.