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How to connect via point-and-click Graphical User Interface (GUI) (on Linux and Windows)
If you want a full point and click interface to control programs with your mouse, you can use a VNC client. One supported by native AWS and recommended is DVC, instructions here.
Ronin provides a pre-configured method available through Ronin-link. When you click “Connect to Machine” you will be given the option to connect via “Desktop”, the first time you click that it will install the NICE DCV server and launch you a desktop.
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For native instructions on how to set this up see the AWS documentation:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dcv/latest/adminguide/setting-up-installing-linux.html
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Done! Now you can copy back and forth between RDS and your RONIN machine seamlessly.
Security to keep in mind: If you have mounted your RDS, then anyone who gets access to your machine will have read/write/delete access to your RDS.
If you need to un-mount your drive, use:
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https://blog.ronin.cloud/object-storage/
If you want to connect to an external S3 bucket you may have to add the “--no-sign-request“ flag. For example:
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Adding additional users to Auto Scale Clusters
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Again, not recommended for Ronin, but you may find a use case where you need to do this. Note, there is additional configuration required to allow this user to login via ssh.
Windows machines
When creating a windows machine I have noticed a bug that requires an immediate password change.
Even when entering the correct password you are met with the very helpful message “The logon attempt failed”.
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To resolve this follow these steps:
Create a machine as normal (and set a password).
After the machine is ready, change tabs and provide a new password via “set password”. You can use the same password as before. Now you should be able to log in via RDP as normal.
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Making Windows machines “useful”
The default settings on Internet Explorer are very restrictive, the easy way to “get started” is to adjust the security levels in the settings menu of IE so you can download files from the internet. Go download firefox and then go from there!
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