Video Transcript:
Alright. This video is gonna demonstrate how to log in to Spectrum Defender over the network via Windows RDP protocol and the Windows remote desktop connection, app. So any Windows machine, any laptop that you have, this is my, work desktop, is gonna have remote desktop connection already installed.
So you just start that up, type in the static IP address of the Spectrum Defender system you wanna target.
And I’m gonna just show you a couple other things you might wanna do here. If you go into display, if you’re using a laptop, you would typically wanna have the remote system become full screen on your local laptop. In this case, because I’m doing a screen capture, it’s nineteen twenty by ten eighty. I’m just gonna set this down to be a little bit smaller than the screen capture. But and you could do that too on your laptop. But for most cases, you’re gonna wanna set this to full screen.
OK. I’m gonna hit connect.
I know that the user account on Spectrum Defender is local user. I know what the password is, obviously.
You must have a password when using Windows RDP. Windows RDP will not work without with a blank password.
So the username and password will be stamped on the front, on the sticker, of your unit.
If you again, if you change the password to to blank, you will no longer be able to log in via RDP.
OK. So I hit connect. We get connected to the the system pretty fast. I’m gonna start up Spectrum Defender.
You can see that RDP just acts like a regular keyboard and mouse, except it’s remote.
It’s a two channel system I have running in the lab, down the hallway.
Alright. So there’s whatever. We’re gonna make a recording.
Start recording there.
Now we’re gonna demonstrate, what happens when you disconnect due to network failure, when you do that disconnect cleanly, and when you log out.
So the first thing that I’ll demonstrate is what happens when you just hit this x up here at the top of the Windows RDP session. K. So I’m gonna hit the x.
It more reminds me it’s gonna be disconnected. Okay. That’s fine.
Disconnected. Alright. Now I’ll launch it again.
Let’s see what happens the next time we come back in.
GAG system is still recording. Everything is exactly the way we left it.
Now I’ll demonstrate what happens when there’s a connectivity problem. I’m gonna walk into the lab down the hall and just unplug the network cable.
OK. The network cable is disconnected. You can see that the screen froze out. And in a second here, Windows is probably gonna just try to automatically reconnect.
There we go. It’s gonna try to reconnect.
It’s not gonna be able to because the the cord is, unplugged. But let me go plug the the cord back in and cancel this.
OK.
Alright. Network’s plugged in again.
It might take a while to register on the network. Let’s see if we can.
Yeah. Okay. There it is.
Reconnect again.
And there we go. Still recording.
Now, the third thing we’re gonna try is what happens when you do this, an actual Windows log out.
OK. Let’s see what happens.
Alright. It’s logged out.
We’ll reconnect again.
And you can see there’s no more recording. Local user, when he logs out of the, Windows, case, local user, when he logs out of the, Windows, it shuts down all of the applications that local user had started, including the Spectrum Defender recording.
So, if you intend to continue recording, you do not wanna do a Windows logout. You can either close out using the x up here, or you can just unplug the network cable. Couple hints for using Spectrum Defender control via RDP.
