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Overview

There are a number of ways to configure RustDesk clients to use your own self-hosted server, we will cover some below.

Manual Config

In the main RustDesk Client home click on the 3 dots next to your ID then click on Network, you can now unlock the settings using elevated privileges and set your ID, Relay, API and Keys.

Enter the hbbs host or IP Address in the ID Server input box (local side + remote side). The other two addresses can be left blank, RustDesk will automatically deduce (if not specially set), and the Relay Server refers to hbbr (port 21117).

e.g.

hbbs.example.com

or

hbbs.example.com:21116

Setup Using Import or Export

1. Use the steps above to configure RustDesk Client on a Device
2. Using the above machine go to Settings then Network and unlock
3. Click on Export Server Config
4. Paste the copied string into Notepad or similar
5. Go to new client, copy the above to clipboard
6. Go to Settings then Network in RustDesk Client, unlock and click Import Server Config
7. It will automatically paste the settings in
8. Click Apply

Automatic Config

The easiest way to setup automatically is using deployment scripts found here.

You can fix the Password is required and use a reverse base64 string in the format {"host":"HOSTADDRESS","key":"HOSTKEY","api":"http://HOSTADDRESS:21114"} to automatically configure the clients, this is available automatically with RustDesk Server Pro via the console.

You can also use the steps from above to export the string then reverse it using this site.

Put config in rustdesk.exe file name (Windows only)

Change rustdesk.exe to rustdesk-host=<host-ip-or-name>,key=<public-key-string>.exe, e.g. rustdesk-host=192.168.1.137,key=xfdsfsd32=32.exe. You can see the config result in the About Window below.

{{% notice note %}} You need to set both host and key, missing either one will not work.

Optionally add a , (comma) character after the key, before the .exe part as a delimiter, to avoid the key being mangled if Windows or the browser renames the file when downloading duplicated names.

If there are invalid characters in the key which can not be used in a Windows file name, please remove the id_ed25519 file from your server and restart hbbs/hbbr. This will cause the id_ed25519.pub file to regenerate. You may need to repeat this process until you get valid characters. {{% /notice %}}

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