guacamole remote desktop

nebulon

http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/

Supports a teamviewer like thing

plusone-nick

This would be very useful for MSP/support + all of the times family members need help lo =p

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:

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).
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.
You can make a handy Electron WebApp for this (or anything) with https://webcatalogapp.com
The easiest way to give ChromeOS users RDC.
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

girish

Guacamole is now available as unstable. I am in the process of adding tests and after that will make it stable.

@ultraviolet thanks!

marcusquinn

Brilliant work @ultraviolet & @girish. We'll give this one a good test.

plusone-nick

@girish said in guacamole remote desktop:

Guacamole is now available as unstable. I am in the process of adding tests and after that will make it stable.

@ultraviolet thanks!

+1
=]

plusone-nick

@marcusquinn I see - not exactly what I had in mind. those are more for live chat support, something you embed in your site, yeah? but are still relevant and useful! I've got a few open source alts bookmarked somewhere, will get back to you on that to share =]

marcusquinn

@plusone-nick Sure - I was thinking if they could be added to Cloudron as a feature. So, your clients would be at my.example.com or whateverapp.example.com and you could add the chat javascript to any you wanted to support so clients could reach you directly from the App and you could co-browse to help solve something.

Probably deserves it's own post thread though...

ultraviolet

@girish How did you fix the ssh compiler issue? I was totally stumped on that.

girish

@ultraviolet I had to run ldconfig in the Dockerfile after installing guacamole-server. Though, I am not 100% sure that is what fixed the issue.

seeker

@marcusquinn https://livehelperchat.com looks very nice. There is even an android app to communicate with the "ai" chat is exhausted

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