@SwiftOnSecurity Okay, sure, but the box is running OpenVMS Alpha, and it knows not from this thing called RDP.
Wanna have me forward one of the X11 ports instead?
Back in what passes for helpdesk reality…
Made a support call into the corporate helpdesk years ago, telling them which of the servers in their DNS server pool was providing bad DNS info, what the bad info was and what it should be, and how to view the good and bad data and good and bad DNS servers with dig commands.
In short, a gift-wrapped DNS bug report.
Help desk then called back, wanted credentials for RDP access into my “Windows PC”.
Something about wanting to check my PC’s DNS settings.
Told’m it was an OpenVMS server and not a PC, had no RDP server, and that I could get them either an ssh login or an X11 login if they really wanted that, or a cut-and-paste of the same dig commands already submitted.
The helpdesk…. demurred.
[helpdesk escalation to internal networking tech support presumably happened here]
The DNS server error did get fixed. Didn’t need to kludge together RDP access, either.
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