To connect to the Clouding Windows Cloud servers, you need to use the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), this proprietary protocol was developed by Microsoft and allows communication in the execution of an application between a client and a Windows server.
To connect to a Windows Cloud server in Clouding, you need to run the program called "Windows APP" from our Mac. You can find it in the "App Store":
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If you don't find "microsoft Remote Desktop" through the previous ways, you need to install the program from the "App Store" by clicking on this link.
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If you are using a version lower than macOS 12, you will need to use this other client from the APP Store.
Create connection with our server
If we open the "microsoft Remote Desktop" program, a small window like the following will open, and we will click on "+":
In the "PC name" section, we will add the public IP of our server. If you don't know the server's IP, you can follow these steps to see your server's IP.
In "Friendly name", we will write a name for the connection that defines which server we are connecting to.
Finally, we click on "Add" and we will have configured our connection to the VPS.
Once we click on "Add" in the previous window, the new connection will appear in the main window.
And we double-click on the created connection to "Connect". After double-clicking, it will ask us for credentials:
For all Windows Cloud servers, the user we need to connect with is the user administrator. The password for the administrator user is the same password sent to you with the server creation notice by email. As an alternative you can view the password from the Clouding Panel.
Fill in the credential details:
I can't connect!
In some versions of Windows, it is necessary to add .\ before the username to indicate that it is a regular server user, not a domain user. Therefore, it will be necessary to log in as .\administrator.
And after clicking on "Continue", it will show us a warning indicating that the identity cannot be verified and that it is necessary to accept a certificate:
We accept the certificate by clicking on the "Continue" button, and we will log in via Remote Desktop to our server: