Hello everybody, I'm Alison with Liquid Web. today I'll be showing you how to use
remote desktop from a couple of different operating systems.
The first thing I would like to demonstrate is how to connect to your windows server
using remote desktop from a local Windows computer. Go to your search
windows option at the bottom and type in "remote" or "remote desktop". Click on
remote desktop connection, and then you're going to put in the IP of the
Windows Server that you're attempting to connect to.
Click Connect...
Then, you're going to put in the username and password of the Windows
server that you're attempting to connect to
and press okay. You might get a warning but just make sure that you know the identity.
Press yes and it's that easy; you're connected to the Windows server from
your windows computer. Next, we'll be talking about using our desktop from a
Linux computer to connect to a Windows server. So there's a little difference
because we're not using a UI (user interface) we're using the command line. So, what we'll do is we will
type in rdesktop, and then the IP that you want to connect to, that will bring
up a pop-up window, and then you'll just put in the username and the password of
the Windows Server that you want to connect to, just like we did before with
the Windows server.
so the administrator is the username, and then, we'll type in my really strong password
and that will bring up your Windows server in the pop-up window here.
Lastly, let's talk about how to connect from a Mac to Windows Server. So, you're going to
want to open up your app store, and in the search bar, just search for remote desktop.
And then you'll download it, showing a couple of seconds to do that...
And then, go ahead and open it.
So, I put in a couple things here already.
If you want to add a new hostname, click new;
if you want to edit one I'll show you how it looks when you add one. So you just type in a connection name whatever you want it to be.
it's custom, it's visible to you. Then you want to put in
the hostname, the PC name, and then the user name, and password. That's the
configuration that you want. So for example when you want to connect to one,
just double click on it. It says okay, I already have that IP and credentials and
then it just opens up your windows server it's super simple, super sleek, and
that's how you connect from a Mac to a Windows Server. That's all there is to it.
You now know how to remote desktop to a Windows server from numerous operating systems.
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