"description":"Use Coder Desktop to access your workspace like it's a local machine",

"path":"./user-guides/desktop/index.md",

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"title":"Workspace Management",

Use Coder Desktop to work on your workspaces as though they're on your LAN, no

port-forwarding required.

Alternatively, you can manually install Coder Desktop from the[releases page](https://github.com/coder/coder-desktop-macos/releases).

1. Open**Coder Desktop** from the Applications directory. When macOS asks if you want to open it, select**Open**.

1. Open**Coder Desktop** from the Applications directory.

1. The application is treated as a system VPN. macOS will prompt you to confirm with:

To copy the`.coder` hostname of a workspace agent, you can click the copy icon beside it.

On macOS you can use`ping6`in yourterminal to verify the connection to your workspace:

You can also connect to the SSH serverin yourworkspace using any SSH client, such as OpenSSH or PuTTY:

ping6 -c 5 your-workspace.coder

ssh your-workspace.coder

On Windows, you can use`ping` in a Command Prompt or PowerShell terminal to verify the connection to your workspace:

Any services listening on ports in your workspace will be available on the same hostname. For example, you can access a web server on port`8080` by visiting`http://your-workspace.coder:8080` in your browser.

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Use`ping6` in your terminal to verify the connection to your workspace:

ping -n 5 your-workspace.coder

ping6 -c 5 your-workspace.coder

You can also connect to the SSH server in your workspace using any SSH client, such as OpenSSH or PuTTY:

Use`ping` in a Command Prompt or PowerShell terminal to verify the connection to your workspace:

ssh your-workspace.coder

ping -n 5 your-workspace.coder

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