Getting started with Cloud Desktop
Note
This guide contains information on how to create and set up a desktop group. If you received a link to the user desktop showcase from an admin, proceed to Get the connection credentials.
Create a Cloud Desktop desktop group in your cloud:
- Prepare your cloud.
- Create a desktop group.
- Create a desktop.
- Get the connection credentials.
- Connect to the desktop.
Getting started
- Log in to or register in the management console
. If you do not have an account yet, go to the management console and follow the guide. - On the Billing
page, make sure you have a billing account linked and it has theACTIVE
orTRIAL_ACTIVE
status. If you do not yet have a billing account, create one. - If you do not have any folders yet, create one.
- To make sure your desktops have access to the internet, set up a NAT gateway for the subnets that will host them.
Create a desktop group
- In the management console
, select a folder to create your desktop group in. - In the list of services, select Cloud Desktop.
- Click Create desktop group.
- Enter a name and description of the desktop group.
- Select an OS image.
- Under Disks:
- Under Computing resources:
- Specify the number of vCPU cores.
- Choose a guaranteed vCPU performance.
- Specify the amount of RAM.
- Under Network settings, select the cloud network and subnets to host desktops.
- Click Create.
Create a desktop
- In the management console
, select the folder where your desktop will be created. - In the list of services, select Cloud Desktop.
- In the left-hand panel, select
Desktops. - Click Create desktop.
- Select the desktop group where you wish to create your desktop.
- Specify the subnet to place the desktop in.
- Specify the user that the desktop is created for.
- Click Create.
Get the connection credentials
- In the management console
, select the folder containing your desktop. - In the list of services, select Cloud Desktop.
- In the left-hand panel, select
Desktops. - Select the desktop to connect to.
- Under Access, click
next to the user account and select Reset password. - Confirm the password reset.
- Save a new password from the pop-up window and close it.
- At the top right, click
Download RDP file.
-
Open the User desktop showcase
. -
Authenticate using Yandex ID
or Single Sign-On (SSO). -
If the desktop you want to connect to is in the
Stopped
status, run it by clicking and confirm the action.Wait for the desktop status to change to
Active
. -
Click
and confirm the password reset. -
Save a new password from the pop-up window and close it.
-
Click
Download RDP file.
Connect to the desktop
You can establish a desktop connection using the Remote Desktop Protocol
- Right-click the downloaded RDP file and select Edit (in Windows 11, select Show more options → Edit).
- In the Remote Desktop Connection window, the General tab, select Allow me to save credentials and click Connect.
- In the security window, select Don't ask me again for connections to this computer and click Yes.
- Enter the previously saved password, select Remember me, and click OK.
To reconnect to the desktop, run the RDP file you saved.
- Install and run Microsoft Remote Desktop
, an official free RDP client for macOS. - Open the Connections menu amd click Import from RDP file.
- In the window that opens, select the downloaded RDP file and click Import.
- Open the Microsoft Remote Desktop menu and select Settings.
- In the window that opens, go to the User Accounts tab.
- In the list of accounts on the left, select the account to connect and paste the previously saved password into the Password field.
- Close the settings window.
- In the PCs tab, run the desktop added.
- In the security window, click Continue.
To reconnect to the desktop, run it in the Microsoft Remote Desktop client in the PCs tab. In the security window, click Continue.
See also
-
Install Remmina
, a free RDP client for Linux. Run the following commands in the terminal:sudo apt-add-repository ppa:remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install remmina remmina-plugin-rdp
-
Start Remmina.
-
In the top menu, click
and select Import. Run the downloaded RDP file and click Import. -
Right-click the added desktop and select Edit.
-
In the Remote Connection Profile window, set up the connection:
- In the Username field, remove the first two characters:
.\
. - In the Password field, type the previously saved password.
- In the Username field, remove the first two characters:
-
Click Save and Connect.
To reconnect to the desktop, run it in the Remmina client.