Hi The speed of VNC is the issue. The refresh rate, and therefor the usability is much slower then RDP. Microsoft have done an awesome job of the protocol behind RDP, wish that someone would create remote connection application (host end) for Windows that runs the RDP protocol. Not sure why this hasnt been done yet though, as the protocol is openly documented by Microsoft... If i knew any developers that could do this - i would fund it.
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 2:22 AM Michael Ballard <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul, > > Wouldn't VNC do what you accomplish? I used to use it extensively to > connect in to a coworker's computer. If I recall correctly, I used UltraVNC > and we could disable our keyboard/mouse so we wouldn't disturb them (and > they wouldn't even know we were there), we could black out their screen, or > we could share control with them. Of course, some of these rely on the > UltraVNC client/server combination, but at the very least VNC should let > you connect simultaneously with the user. > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 5:19 PM Paul Azad <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Nick >> >> Thanks for getting back to me. Doesnt look like FreeRDP supports it, and >> reading the comments about it, its hard (uses RPC & SMB protocols). I am >> now thinking it might actually not be possible with Guacamole, as we would >> need to allow port 445/139 for SMB, as well as other ports - which will not >> be possible unless the guacamole server is in the same LAN as all the PCs. >> >> Is there any other option to use another protocol with Windows? i have >> read that X2Go / X11 are not possible due to them being based on X11 etc >> etc, but X.Org could be possible. But this would only be available for >> linux.... >> >> Thanks >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 1:44 AM Nick Couchman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 5:26 AM Paul Azad <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> With the windows rdp client, there is an option of /shadow which lets >>>> you RDP into a Windows RDP session on a RDS server, or even on Windows 10 >>>> (Pro/Enterprise) and see what the local user is seeing. This feature >>>> doesn’t seem to be very widely known, but it works very nicely. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I was able to RDP from my laptop to another using this command: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> mstsc /shadow:1 /v:windows_pc_name /control /noconsentprompt /prompt >>>> >>>> >>> To my knowledge we have not implemented that, though I agree that would >>> be useful. You're welcome to put in a feature request for it. Note that >>> this will rely on the underlying support being implemented for it in >>> FreeRDP, since that's the library we use for RDP access. So, you might >>> also check the FreeRDP project and see if they have implemented it. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I was looking for this setting in Guacamole, but I cant seem to find >>>> it. I thought preconnection-id was it, as it sounds like it – but that >>>> didn’t work. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> No, the preconnection-id parameter is relativey specific to connecting >>> to the console of Hyper-V virtual machines, since Microsoft implements >>> those consoles using RDP. >>> >>> -Nick >>> >>>>
