Remote Desktop via ssh tunnel

Goal: run remote desktop on a Windows PC located behind a linux box, or something running an sshd.

  1) ssh -L 33389:windowsbox:3389 me@linuxgateway

    where 33389 is the port on the your machine to forward, 3389 
    is standard RDP port waiting for a connection, windowsbox is
    a locally resolvable (ie within the linuxgateway network) DNS
    name or IP address.

  2) fire up the RDP client, connect it to host "localhost:33389".

  3) there is no step 3