Smoothwall Reverse Proxy - Remote Desktop and Exchange

[superaz300]

Hi Guys,

 

Just wondering how many people are successfully using Reverse Proxy within Smoothwall to use Remote Desktop Services and Exchange? I have it kind of working, and I can get to the correct pages for https://remote.mydomain.co.uk and https://mail.mydomain.co.uk. However, when using RDS, once the RDP file has been downloaded, it hangs on "Initiating remote connection". Has anyone had this issue before?

 

I have the following rules setup in Smoothwall.

External Address: https://remote.mydomain.co.uk - Internal Address: https://IPOFRRDSSERVER

External Address: http://remote.mydomain.co.uk - Internal Address: http://IPOFRDSSERVER

External Address: https://mail.mydomain.co.uk - Internal Address: https://IPOFMAILSERVER

External Address: http://mail.mydomain.co.uk - Internal Address: http://IPOFMAILSERVER

External Address: https://autodiscover.mydomain.co.uk - Internal Address: https://IPOFMAILSERVER

 

I have both HTTP and HTTPS for HTTP redirection.

 

Can anyone see anything wrong?

 

Kind regards

James

[Jonah]

We’ve historically had trouble with the reverse proxy, so reverted to standard port forwards to 443 for OWA and RDWEB

[superaz300]

We’ve historically had trouble with the reverse proxy, so reverted to standard port forwards to 443 for OWA and RDWEB

 

I had a feeling you was going to say this. Smoothwall support told me, I quote "Reverse proxy will work sometimes and not others"... the problem is I don't have more than 1 public IP address, so I can only port forward HTTPS to either the mail server or RDS. The mail server has been here for ages, I just wanted to introduce RDS recently.

[computer_expert]

I've never had much luck with reverse proxies & remote desktop gateway/services unless you use the Web App Proxy roles built in to windows server.

[Cache]

I gave up on using it for Remote Desktop Gateway and went for a Port Forward instead.

[superaz300]

I gave up on using it for Remote Desktop Gateway and went for a Port Forward instead.

 

I would love to go for a port forward, but this all depends if I can get another public IP address from our ISP... at the moment we only have the 1. Its either that, or I wait until we move from Exchange to Office 365 and then I can use 443 for RDS.

 

James

[ibpalle]

It may be possible to use non standard port on your RDS? Depends on your users and if they are capable of using links with port number is them.