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In summary you need to forward port 3389 on the destination (Windows TS/RD computer) to a loopback address (e.g. 127.0.0.2) with a different port number. e.g. 3390. Then connect with Remote-Desktop to localhost:3390

You will find much information about how to do this by searching the web for "remote desktop terminal services ssh"

From UNIX

From a UNIX computer to the Terminal Server called renown via the ssh bastion host barbican:

ssh -CL 3390:renown.ch.cam.ac.uk:3389 barbican.ch.cam.ac.uk
rdesktop localhost:3390 &

Note the -C option is for compression which you may well want if your remote connection is medium/slow.

From Windows

Rough set of screenshots to RD from Win XP to Terminal server (renown) via ssh bastion host barbican (note: a different local port number MUST be used; the example below uses 3390):

 

 

System status 

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