Windows: Accessing Your Server with Remote Desktop

Windows: Accessing Your Server with Remote Desktop

This article explains how to use Remote Desktop to access your Windows server’s desktop from anywhere in the world.

Please note that this article pertains only to customers who have a Windows server hosted with Cartika.
 

On a normal Windows computer you have a keyboard, monitor, and mouse that allow you to interact with the machine.  For Windows servers hosted on the Internet things are a bit different because your server could physically be thousands of miles away.  To access the desktop of an Internet-hosted server Microsoft has created a feature known as Remote Desktop.

Remote Desktop from a Windows Computer

  1. Click the Start button.
  2. Click Run…
  3. Type “mstsc” and press the Enter key.
  4. Next to Computer: type in the IP address of your server
  5. Click Connect.
  6. If all goes well, you will see the Windows login prompt.

Remote Desktop from a Linux Computer with RDesktop

  1. Open a command shell using xterm
  2. Type ‘rdesktop’ at the command prompt to see if you have rdesktop installed
  3. If rdesktop is installed, then proceed.  Otherwise, you will need to install the rdesktop package for your flavor of Linux.
  4. Type ‘rdesktop’ followed by your server’s IP address.  Then press Enter.
    • Example:
      $ rdesktop 72.52.246.40
  5. If all goes well, you will see the Windows login prompt.

Remote Desktop from Mac OS X

  1. Using the Microsoft RDP Tool:
    • Download and install the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 
    • When you open the application you will be prompted for the “Computer:” you would like to connect to. You can enter the server’s hostname or IP address.
    • After you click Connect the client will ask for your user name and password. If it fails to connect you can try again inside the remote connection window.
  2. Using CoRD:
    • Download and install the CoRD application 
    • Open the application and click on the File menu, then New Server
    • You will be presented with a window where you can specify information about the server you are connecting to.
    • Enter the server’s hostname or IP address in the Address field.
    • You can alter the other settings in this window if you wish but all you need to start the connection is the address.
    • When you are finished making changes, press the enter/return key on your keyboard or simply close the new server window.
    • Your new server profile will appear in the list to the left side of the application. Double click on it and you will start the connection to your server.
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