I am attempting to configure a head-node for a Windows HPC system.
I want to allow remote desktop access to the head-node from clients that are outside the network firewall but I want this be via an encrypted connection to improve security.
I have installed Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) and licensed it using RD Licensing Server (both on the head-node itself). I can remote desktop to the head-node from a client inside the DMZ that contains the head-node and I can create an ssh tunnel via a linux server that is inside the DMZ and connect via that tunnel to the head-node from a client outside the DMZ.
I now want to install RD Gateway so that I do not need the linux server ssh tunnel.
My problem is that the RD Gateway role is missing on the head-node server!
The instructions at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770690.aspx
tell me (in step 5) to "select the Remote Desktop Gateway check box" but there is no such checkbox in theSelect Role Services page.
In the Select Role Services page for the Remote Desktop Services role, I see the following role services only:
Remote Desktop Session Host (Installed)
Remote Desktop Virtualization Host
Core Services
Remote Desktop Licensing (Installed)
Remote Desktop Connection Broker
Remote Desktop Web Access
I know that RD Gateway is the new name (since Windows Server 2008 R2) for TS Gateway (until Windows Server 2008) but that does not exist on the head-node server either.
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\System identifies the head-node machine as
"Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition Service Pack 1"
However, "winver.exe" claims that the same head-node server is
"Windows Server 2008 R2 HPC Edition, Version 6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1)"