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--- remote_desktop_connection [2023/05/03 18:16] – created steve
+++ remote_desktop_connection [2023/05/27 16:02] (current) – steve
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 <code bash TinyRD.sh>
 #!/usr/bin/bash
-ssh -f -N -i ~/.ssh/RSA-srj -p 22222 -L 33389:localhost:3389 steve@cyli.org
+# Above because it's how you should start all bash scripts
-sleep 3
-xfreerdp /cert-ignore /sound:sys:alsa /f /gdi:hw /u:steve /v:localhost:33389
+# The line below reads credentials into the Creds array, useful
+# data is in the odd references, the keys are in the evens.
+Creds=($(grep -A 2 "machine tiny" ~/.netrc))
+# Below; Start an ssh session, asking for the password to the rsa key (-i) before going
+# to the background (-f), and not executing (-N) anything on the remote end. Connect to
+# port 22222 (-p) as steve at the server cyli.org, creating a tunnel (-L) from port 33389
+# on the local machine, to port 3389 on the remote machine.
+ssh -f -N -i ~/.ssh/SRJ-rsa -p 22222 -L 33389:localhost:3389 steve@cyli.org
+# ssh -f -N -i ~/.ssh/SRJ-rsa -p 22 -L 33389:localhost:3389 steve@192.168.1.189
+# Sleep for a couple seconds.
+sleep 2
+# Start xfreerdp on the local machine, ignoring the bad certificate (/cert-ignore), and
+# forwarding sound (/sound:sys:alsa), running full-screen (/f), using hardware GDI
+# rendering (/gdi:hw), connecting as steve, to localhost at port 33389, created above.
+xfreerdp /cert-ignore /sound /microphone /f /u:${Creds[3]} /p:"${Creds[5]}" /v:localhost:33389
+# After we exit the desktop, kill the ssh-agent session,
 killall ssh-agent
+# and the ssh session.
 killall ssh
 </code>