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Only available in Pangolin Cloud and Enterprise Edition.
RDP public resources render a full Remote Desktop Protocol client in the browser. Users visit a FQDN, complete Pangolin authentication, and get an interactive Windows desktop session—including file transfers, clipboard copy/paste, and standard RDP features—without installing remote desktop software.
Remote desktop session rendered in the Pangolin web dashboard

RDP session in the browser

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How It Works

  1. You assign a FQDN on a domain managed in Pangolin.
  2. The user completes authentication and access rules in the browser.
  3. Pangolin renders the RDP session and proxies traffic to the Windows host through a site connector.
No Pangolin client is required. Any modern web browser is sufficient.

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Site and Host Configuration

RDP public resources do not use targets. Instead, you:
  1. Select which sites can route to the resource.
  2. Enter the backend Windows host and RDP port (default 3389).
Pangolin routes through the site that is online and healthiest, using the same intelligent multi-site routing model as private resources.

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Authentication and Access Rules

RDP public resources are protocol-aware and support the full set of Pangolin authentication and access rules, including platform SSO, identity providers, user/role assignments, and context-based allow/deny rules. You can share these settings across resources with a resource policy. RDP session credentials (Windows username and password) are entered in the browser-rendered client after Pangolin authentication succeeds.