Hi Nick I came up with the same info yesterday about FreeRDP, and xRDP. I did some more research and found a few other projects doing a RDP -> VNC proxy/converter. So it would mean using RDP from Guacamole to the machine, that would then proxy/convert it to VNC that connects to a local VNC server on the local machine.
I think xRDP is also doing this, anyway one of the other projects is going to help compile it for windows this week - so fingers crossed it works and helps with the latency issues. Back to WebRTC, guacamole is a great aggregation for connecting to multiple systems. So connecting to it, and then going to ssh (for linux), or vnc (for MacOS), or RDP (windows server) is really great. The issue is that Windows desktop (shadow). With Guacamole an administrator can setup u/p required for the client connection so the users who actually connect to the end machines through guacamole dont need to know any of these details - which is great, plus with guacd we can record the session - again which is great On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 4:14 AM Nick Couchman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 4:24 PM Paul Azad <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Nick >> >> Your spot on with our use case. Cant expect users to RDP into their own >> local PC - which isn't possible anyway. >> >> Would WebRTC 'protocol be possible to be supported in Guacd? Or any other >> Windows available protocol that is more fluid then VNC? >> >> > That's an interesting thought. It would likely be possible, but I'd be > curious what some of the other developers think about the feasibility and > desirability of this feature. Also, I'm not sure how worthwhile it is to > actually add this to Guacamole - if you're going to have the screens shared > with WebRTC, anyway, why not just go WebRTC natively across the entire link > - why use Guacamole at all? > > However, on a different note, I did some further research on this, and, > while it is true that the FreeRDP project has decided not to support the > shadow option connecting natively to Windows, there does seem to be a > FreeRDP shadow server that could be installed that might do the trick? I > haven't done anything with it, but it appears that it likely uses the RDP > protocol to do what VNC does - mirror the current display and allow for a > native (non-RPC/SMB) connection to the mirrored display. You might look > into that - while it would be another piece of software to deploy, I would > imagine the deployment is pretty simple (copy executable to remote system, > create a service, start it - something like that) and probably would give > you the functionality you're looking for with Guacamole. > > -Nick > >>
