Hi Joachim,
Did you aktivate enable-font-smoothing If set to "true", text will be rendered with smooth edges. Text over RDP is rendered with rough edges by default, as this reduces the number of colors used by text, and thus reduces the bandwidth required for the connection. on your connections settings (it's in the performance section) under Guacmole Gui it is called ClearType ? rg Christian Christian Kraus Inhaber CKC IT Consulting & Solutions e.U. Kirschenallee 22 2120 OBERSDORF Österreich Telefon: +43 (0) 680 2062952 Fax: +43 820 220262992 E-mail: christian.kr...@ckc-it.at -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Joachim Lindenberg <joac...@lindenberg.one> Gesendet: Dienstag 27 Februar 2018 07:46 An: user@guacamole.apache.org Betreff: AW: New user questions... Hello Mike, thanks a lot for following up! · w.r.t. rendering issues. In the following picture I collected three screendumps: First and second are taken from guacamole. It usually comes in initially with the second and then later the first variant. When using mstsc I get the third – which is the most crips one.. any suggestion? · w.r.t. ldap & database – my installation is very small w.r.t. the number of users (2-3) and virtual systems (5-10). A database sounds overengineered to me especially considering operations (backup). Generating user-mapping.xml on the Hyper-V host sounds like one approach I might try (but I dislike the passwords in that and would prefer to get them from LDAP), or I am considering to plug in my own authentication – but that will take some programming time. Actually I think Guacamole could standardize a rest based client using basic authentication (forwarding the credentials received) and just expecting a list of connections to display for that specific user. Then one would just have to configure a URL and implement the server part. · Thanks for the tip with the clipboard! Got it to work! Thanks & Best Regards, Joachim Von: Mike Jumper [mailto:mike.jum...@guac-dev.org] Gesendet: Montag, 26. Februar 2018 22:09 An: user@guacamole.apache.org Betreff: Re: New user questions... On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Joachim Lindenberg <joac...@lindenberg.one <mailto:joac...@lindenberg.one> > wrote: Hello, I came across guacamole only last weekend and today decided to install and test. I have to say I am blown away, great stuff! Thanks! However as with anything new, I also do have some issues and questions – I do hope I was not too ignorant when looking for the answers in the documentation.. - When exactly is user-mapping.xml read and are changes picked up? On every connection attempt, on authenticating a use, or when? The user-mapping.xml file is re-read when a user authenticates if it has been modified since the last time it was read. - Can one authenticate against LDAP (actually active directory) but still use connections defined in user-mapping.xml? The user-mapping.xml cannot be used in this way, but the database authentication can: http://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/ldap-auth.html#ldap-and-database <http://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/ldap-auth.html#ldap-and-database> You should look to migrating away from user-mapping.xml when you can regardless, as it's mainly aimed at providing a quick way to confirm things are installed correctly. The database authentication is much more full-featured. - The screen resolution for one of the sysems appeared to be slightly off. I am using Chrome browser to guacamole, which connects to a real windows host (with physical display 4K set to 200% most of the time). Is there a means to fine tune this, maybe with the dpi setting? What values to try? Connections to a Hyper-V host appeared to be fine Can you describe specifically how the resolution is off? - I was not able to copy from or paste text into a “terminal” window. Is this a configuration issue or a missing feature? Neither - it is a browser limitation: http://guacamole.apache.org/faq/#clipboard <http://guacamole.apache.org/faq/#clipboard> Guacamole already tries to synchronize the local clipboard, but whether this succeeds depends on whether the browser allows such access. If the browser does not allow JavaScript to access the local clipboard, you will either have to use an extension to override that behavior [1] or use the clipboard editor provided within the Guacamole menu [2]. - Mike [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clipboard-permission-mana/ipbhneeanpgkaleihlknhjiaamobkceh [2] http://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/using-guacamole.html#using-the-clipboard <http://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/using-guacamole.html#using-the-clipboard>
