remote-rdp is a command-line program that sets up a tunnel for a Microsoft Remote Desktop connection from your
local machine (e.g., your PC, Mac, etc.) to a device connected to the macchina.io
REMOTE, and then launches the Microsoft Remote Desktop client to open a RDP session.
Note that in contrast to WebTunnelAgent, which typically runs on an embedded or IoT
device, remote-rdp, like remote-client and WebTunnelSSH, runs on a PC or Mac that you want to connect to the
device. You'll have to build the macchina.io REMOTE SDK
for your machine to get the remote-rdp program.
remote-rdp usually does not need a configuration file, most parameters can be passed
via command-line arguments. Some settings can be set using a configuration file
(see the remote-client documentation for more
information on configuration files).
At startup, remote-rdp will look for a configuration file named
.remote-rdp.properties or .remote-client.properties
in the current user's home directory, and read it if it's present.
To run remote-rdp, you'll need to specify the URL of the remote device to connect
to (e.g. https://8ba57423-ec1a-4f31-992f-a66c240cbfa0.remote.macchina.io).
remote-rdp https://8ba57423-ec1a-4f31-992f-a66c240cbfa0.remote.macchina.io
remote-rdp will prompt for your macchina.io REMOTE username and password and
then launch the Remote Desktop client with correct parameters for host and port number.
The macchina.io REMOTE username and password can also be supplied via environment
variables REMOTE_USERNAME and REMOTE_PASSWORD, or via a configuration file.
The following RDP clients are used:
mstsc.exeon WindowsMicrosoft Remote Desktop.appon macOS (launched via a temporarily created.rdpfile)xfreerdpon Linux and other Unix platforms
Like remote-client, remote-rdp can also connect through a
proxy server.
You can run remote-rdp without command-line options (or with --help
or /help on Windows) to see a help screen with available command-line options.