Connection guide

Every saved server starts the same way: choose + New Connection, pick the protocol, fill in the fields it shows, and choose Add or Connect. Double-click a server in the list to connect; if it is already open, RemoteDeck switches to it.

Kind	Connects to	Needs on the other side
SSH	Linux, BSD, macOS, Windows with OpenSSH, most network gear	An SSH server, usually on port 22
SFTP	Files on any SSH server	The same SSH server
RDP	Windows and Windows Server desktops	Remote Desktop turned on, usually port 3389
TEL	Older switches, routers, serial consoles	A Telnet service, usually port 23
FTP	FTP and FTPS file servers, including Windows IIS	An FTP server, usually port 21
VNC	Linux and Mac desktops, kiosks	A VNC server; a VNC viewer on your PC
WEB	Proxmox, routers, firewalls, NAS, iLO / iDRAC	A web interface (http or https)
CLI	Azure, AWS, Google Cloud accounts	The cloud's command-line tool on your PC
AZ	Azure Cloud Shell	A Microsoft account with Azure; Cloud Shell set up once

SSH

Fill in Host (name or IP address), Port if it isn't 22, and Username. Then sign in one of three ways:

• Password: type it in the Password field. RemoteDeck answers ssh's own login prompt with it, and only that one.
• Key: choose your private key file under Private key (for example %USERPROFILE%\.ssh\id_ed25519).
• Nothing: keys loaded in Windows' ssh-agent and your %USERPROFILE%\.ssh\config are used automatically.

The first time, ssh asks whether you trust the server's key; RemoteDeck shows that question in a small window. Extra ssh options takes anything ssh accepts, such as -J jumphost or -L 8080:localhost:80. Press Ctrl+Shift+F to open the SFTP file browser beside the terminal.

SFTP

The same fields as SSH. An SFTP connection opens the two-pane file view: a folder on this PC on the left, the server on the right. The sftp prompt sits in a strip below it (sign-in questions appear there, and sftp commands still work); Terminal folds it away.

Remote Desktop (RDP)

Fill in Host, Username and, for a domain account, Domain (for example CORP). Save the password, or leave it empty and RemoteDeck asks when you connect. The desktop opens inside RemoteDeck and resizes to fit the window.

• Share my drives and Share clipboard text work as in Windows' Remote Desktop Connection. Turn clipboard sharing off for servers you don't fully trust.
• In a remote desktop the keyboard belongs to the remote computer. Ctrl+Alt+← or → brings it back to RemoteDeck.
• To use Windows' own Remote Desktop Connection instead (full screen, several monitors), tick Open in Remote Desktop Connection.

VNC

Fill in Host and Port (usually 5900). RemoteDeck hands the connection to the VNC viewer installed on your PC, such as TightVNC, TigerVNC or RealVNC Viewer, which asks for the password itself.

Telnet

Fill in Host, Port, Username and Password. RemoteDeck types the username and password at the device's login prompts during the first 30 seconds only, and never at a later prompt.

FTP and FTPS

Fill in Host and Username (leave it empty for anonymous FTP) and the password. Tick Require TLS for servers that support FTPS, so the password and files are encrypted. The connection opens the two-pane file view.

Copying files and Synchronize (FTP and SFTP)

FTP and SFTP connections show two panes, like WinSCP: this PC on the left, the server on the right. The left pane starts in the folder you last used with that server.

• Copy: select files or folders and press Upload ▶ or ◀ Download, press F5, drag them to the other side, or right-click. Folders are copied with everything in them. Files from Explorer can be dropped on the server side, too.
• Existing files: if something with the same name is already there, RemoteDeck asks: Yes replaces it, No skips it and copies the rest, Cancel copies nothing.
• Synchronize…: choose the direction (make the server match this PC, or this PC match the server), whether to include subfolders, and whether to delete what isn't in the source. Compare lists every file that would be copied, created or deleted; untick anything to leave alone, then press Synchronize. Afterwards RemoteDeck compares again and tells you if anything still differs. Files count as different when one is missing or the sizes differ. Dates aren't compared, because servers report them only to the minute and in their own time zone.
• The left pane: pick a drive or ⌂ (Documents), double-click to open folders and files, F2 renames, F7 makes a folder, Delete sends to the Recycle Bin. It refreshes by itself when other programs change the folder.
• Stop ends the transfer that is running. Only one runs at a time.

Web pages

Choose Web page and type the address, for example https://192.168.1.10:8006 for Proxmox or http://router.lan. Without http:// or https://, RemoteDeck uses https://. The page opens in a browser tab inside RemoteDeck, with back, forward, reload and ↗ to open it in your own browser.

When a page opens a window of its own — Proxmox's Upgrade, Shell and Console, or a link meant for a new window — it opens as a separate window above RemoteDeck, already signed in, and the page you were on stays where it was. On top keeps that window above other programs too; the page can close it again (Proxmox does when you press Close).

Many devices use a self-signed certificate. RemoteDeck then shows who it was issued to and its SHA-256 fingerprint and asks whether to continue. If you agree, it remembers exactly that certificate for that connection and asks again if the certificate ever changes.

Saved web passwords and Auto sign-in

A web connection can keep a User name and Password, like LastPass does — in Windows Credential Manager, like every RemoteDeck password. Two ways to save them:

• Edit the connection and fill in User name and Password, or
• sign in to the site by hand once: a bar asks Save the password … in RemoteDeck? — choose Save.

From then on RemoteDeck fills them into the login page as soon as it appears, including sites that ask for the user name first and the password on the next screen (QNAP, Microsoft, Google). The Auto sign-in switch in the toolbar decides the rest: on, RemoteDeck also presses Next and Login, so the site opens signed in with nothing to do; off, it only fills them in and you press Login. 🔑 fills in at any time.

• Passwords are filled in only on the connection's own address — the same https/http, host name and port. A page you're redirected to, a look-alike address or a frame inside the page gets nothing.
• Auto sign-in presses Login once each time the page opens, so a wrong or changed password can't keep retrying and lock the account.

Cloud CLI

Opens a PowerShell terminal already set up for one cloud account. Install the cloud's tool once on your PC: Azure CLI (winget install Microsoft.AzureCLI), AWS CLI (winget install Amazon.AWSCLI) or Google Cloud CLI (winget install Google.CloudSDK).

• Azure: optional tenant and subscription. Each connection has its own sign-in, separate from your usual az login, so you can keep one connection per subscription.
• AWS: optional profile and region from your AWS configuration.
• Google Cloud: optional gcloud configuration and project.

Azure Cloud Shell

The same Bash or PowerShell shell as in the Azure portal, inside RemoteDeck; nothing to install. Cloud Shell must have been set up once at shell.azure.com. The first time you connect, RemoteDeck shows a Microsoft sign-in code, opens the sign-in page and copies the code for you. The sign-in is then kept for that connection on your PC, encrypted for your Windows account, until you choose Sign Out on it or delete it. Azure ends a Cloud Shell after 20 minutes without typing.

Quick Connect, imports and shortcuts

Type into Quick connect at the top and press Enter: root@10.0.0.5:2222, sftp deploy@web01, telnet://admin@switch:2323, rdp dc01, ftp files.example.com, https://192.168.1.1:8006.

Local Terminal is always at the top of the server list: double-click it for a PowerShell terminal on this PC. To open every server in a group at once, right-click one of them and choose Connect All in ….

File → Import reads your OpenSSH config (%USERPROFILE%\.ssh\config) and Remote Desktop Connection Manager (.rdg) files. File → Export Settings moves everything to another PC.

Keys	Does
Ctrl+Shift+N	New connection
Ctrl+Shift+T	Local PowerShell terminal
Ctrl+Shift+M	MultiExec: type into every terminal
Ctrl+Shift+G	Switch between one session and tiles
Ctrl+Shift+F	File browser beside an SSH session (in SFTP: show or hide the two panes)
F5	Two-pane file view: copy the selection to the other side
Ctrl+Shift+B	Show or hide the server list
Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Alt+1…9	Next session, or jump to session 1–9