Creating an Icon on MS Windows
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Create a icon to start the SokweDB VPN on your Microsoft Windows desktop with the following procedure:
- Press the right-side mouse button on an empty portion of your desktop.
- Click on New -> Shortcut in the resulting menu
- Copy and paste the following (single long line) into the "Type the location of the item:" field:
wt ssh -L 5432:sokwe-dbs.postgres.database.azure.com:5432 -l YOU sokwe.janegoodall.org
- Change the "YOU" in the text pasted to be the VPN login name that you and the SowkeDB administrator agreed upon.
- Click the "Next" button
- Enter "SokweDB_VPN" as the name of the shortcut
- Click the "Finish" button