guacamole remote desktop

[girish]

I found https://git.cloudron.io/dswd/guacamole-app and https://git.cloudron.io/doodlemania2/guacamole-app as attempts to package this.

[murgero]

@plusone-nick Wait - Will this work in an MSP setting? It's just an RDP Gateway, but it's not used like ScreenConnect, TeamViewer, etc (where you could generate a code, then use that code to connect.)

[plusone-nick]

@murgero It can with a little bit of work. There are many methods of auth. I am not positive there is a one time code gen OOB but I imagine one could generate temp users and or one time code somehow. There appears to be a decent amount of people using it in varying ways over the past years: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/bqs866/apache_guacamole_experiences/

[ripsa]

This would be really useful for remote management of my various servers and remote access to machines.

[ultraviolet]

Hi all,
I have done a bit of work on the repos that @girish mentioned and I believe I have it packaged and working with the latest version with LDAP integrations. How can I get people to do some testing and then look to help get this into the appstore for everyone to use?

Thanks

[fbartels]

@ultraviolet as far as I can see the linked repos have not been updated for 2+ years. Is your repository public somewhere?

[ultraviolet]

@fbartels not public, but let me get them published shortly and will share the link here.

[ultraviolet]

the repo is here https://github.com/euanmcgregor/cloudron-guacamole

I am still testing some of the build in the container and excuse the mess of code will clean it up once it all is working.

[ultraviolet]

@fbartels I am seeing an issue with guacd it displays when you try to connect with SSH or RDP etc.

guacd[88]: WARNING:     Support for protocol "ssh" is not installed

Not sure what is going on but if you are willing and able to help I a fresh pair of eyes might be good!

also off topic, your live stream on Sunday was awesome!!

[fbartels]

@ultraviolet hm.. the configure shows that ssh support should be enabled, though. But I must say that I am already at a loss at creating connections inside of guacamole.

Thanks for the praise on the stream.

[ultraviolet]

@fbartels yup confused myself on that. It is not the most user friendly GUI but works quite well.

[girish]

@ultraviolet Oh wow, this is awesome! I will take a look at your repo in a day or two and try to get the package published. What are the pending issues?

[ultraviolet]

@girish there are a few pending issues like you can't connect to anything! So I need a bit more time to look into it. Will take any help from anyone as something is not building correctly inside the container.

[ultraviolet]

I am kind of stuck and could use some collective help on this. guacd which does all the connections to SSH or RDP etc reports this:

uacd[96]: INFO:        Connection ID is "$77091946-4e22-473d-8ab9-2432f77afc71"
guacd[98]: WARNING:     **Support for protocol "ssh" is not installed**
guacd[98]: DEBUG:       Requesting termination of client...
guacd[98]: DEBUG:       Client terminated successfully.
guacd[96]: INFO:        Connection "$77091946-4e22-473d-8ab9-2432f77afc71" removed.
guacd[96]: INFO:        Creating new client for protocol "ssh"
guacd[96]: INFO:        Connection ID is "$8897ed6b-2667-46d5-a2f0-53e465eb7cc8"
guacd[103]: WARNING:    **Support for protocol "ssh" is not installed**
guacd[103]: DEBUG:      Requesting termination of client...
guacd[103]: DEBUG:      Client terminated successfully.
guacd[96]: INFO:        Connection "$8897ed6b-2667-46d5-a2f0-53e465eb7cc8" removed.

When the image is built I can see it knows it's there to install but really stuck. Is there anyone that could pull the repo and have a look if anyone has sometime?

Thanks

[doodlemania2]

I packaged guacamole a long time ago and have been using it ever sense but didn't publish it or suggest to publish it cause i was using the incubator release. feel free to take a look at my repo too if you would like a compare?

[ultraviolet]

@doodlemania2 thanks I might have used it for the base of mine but will double check!

[murgero]

I'm taking a look now

Edit: I built the current repo mentioned by OP - My error is that WebSocket is not working properly.

[ultraviolet]

odd never got that error was always the ssh module was not installed. Going to take a another shot it later.

[marcusquinn]

Been using this a lot over the years - some insights from that:

1. It's as fast as JumpDesktop or similar. If there are ever any speed issues they will be the VPN or network setup (we use pfSense).
2. It's a god-send for managing and distributing RDC credentials and managing access permissions with a team, especially compared to sharing and re-sharing .rdp files or PrivateBin copy/paste/messaging any time addresses change.
3. You can make a handy Electron WebApp for this (or anything) with https://webcatalogapp.com
4. The easiest way to give ChromeOS users RDC.
5. I like Paperspace for cheap Windows VMs but this is a bit lighter and faster for connecting to many VMs across multiple providers.

[marcusquinn]

@plusone-nick For interest on that use-case, I've recently been playing with https://crisp.chat which includes co-browsing in the paid subscription, more appropriate to companies with a budget though.

This FOSS Chat App seems to include co-browsing though:

https://livehelperchat.com
https://livehelperchat.com/new-version-2.16v-co-browsing-387a.html