====== Windows Remote Desktop Server ======

There are three Remote Desktop Server (former: Windows Terminal Server) available:

  * **gwd-wints1.top.gwdg.de** - software for all GWDG accounts, freeware or campus licensed
  * **gwd-wints5.top.gwdg.de** - software for Active Directory administrators 
   * **gwd-wintsbio.top.gwdg.de** - Compute Server for statistics (SAS, Statistica, Stata, R-Studio-Desktop, Excel) and bioinformatics. There is a special registration needed for this server. [[support@gwdg.de?subject=Bioinformatik | E-Mail]]

===== Remote Desktop Server "GWD-WinTS1" =====

The Remote Desktop Server **gwd-wints1.top.gwdg.de** is available for all GWDG user accounts. Here you find freeware and software licensed for all users. It is also used for the administration of our virtual machines.

A remote desktop client (RDP client) is needed to connect to the server:

  * **Windows 10 oder 11**:    search for //Remote Desktop Connection//  ->  "gwd-wints1.top.gwdg.de", ''GWDG\//username//'' and your password
  * **Linux**: remmina or xFreeRDP. The syntax for xFreeRDP is: 
''xfreerdp /u:GWDG\\//Benutzername// /v:gwd-wints1.top.gwdg.de'' 
   *  **Macintosh**:We recommend the Microsoft Remote Desktop Client from the App Store.

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Please notice:
The server restarts every night at 4:00am ! Save your files and log off after work. 
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 ===== Access from outside of GÖNET  =====

The Remote Desktop Server are accessable within the GÖNET.  From outside you need a VPN connection:  [[de:services:network_services:vpn:start|VPN-Server]] .