Not quite "done". I want to be able to control which website is initially opened by passing a parameter from Guacamole.
The batch file option previously listed works, but I still wonder "why" passing the URL as an argument directly to the browser doesn't work. Why does it work -- Michael J. Wheeler email: [email protected] ________________________________ From: Mailing Lists <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2022 2:16 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: RDP Configuration to auto-launch web browser to URL create a remote app on the rdp server eg with MS methods or RemoteApp Tool http://www.kimknight.net/remoteapptool and configure it with the startup parameters and URL. Then configure an RDP connection in Guacamole to open the Remote App. - done via Smartphone Am 30.09.2022 um 19:56 schrieb Michael J Wheeler <[email protected]>: As for the RemoteApp configuration, yes I have a Terminal Services server built with RemoteApp working perfectly fine. It only goes sideways when I try to pass in a parameter of the URL to open the browser to. -- Michael J. Wheeler email: [email protected] ________________________________ From: Sean Hulbert <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2022 12:52 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: RE: RDP Configuration to auto-launch web browser to URL If you are trying to launch using the Remote App, you will need AD and publish to RDP. However you can set a script in GPO to execute and launch your site (or any application) using wscript/batch or powershell upon login. Same can be done in Linux. Hope this helps The Remote App should be universal; however, it is tailored to Windows Domain controller. Thank You Sean Hulbert Security Centric Inc. A Cybersecurity Virtualization Enablement Company We don't just run you through the motions, Our labs teach you how to think! [image001.png] System Award Management CAGE: 8AUV4 AFCEA San Francisco Chapter V.P. If you have heard of a hacker by name, he/she has failed, fear the hacker you haven’t heard of! CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication with its contents may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. It is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Unauthorized interception, review, use or disclosure is prohibited and may violate applicable laws including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of the communication. Content within this email communication is not legally binding as a contract and no promises are guaranteed unless in a formal contract outside this email communication. igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum!!! Epitoma Rei Militaris From: Michael J Wheeler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2022 10:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RDP Configuration to auto-launch web browser to URL I've been trying for a little bit now to configure a RDP connection that will auto-launch a web browser (in my example Edge) and have that browser open to a URL of my choosing. This URL could be different based on needs, and simply setting the homepage is not sufficient. Edge (and most other browsers) will accept a CLI argument of the URL to navigate to, and this works perfectly fine when testing on the target machine via command prompt. However, when I try entering that value into the "initial-program" field in the connection, it fails to launch the browser at all. I've seen this behavior with the initial-program argument on Windows 10, Windows Server, and Ubuntu with XRDP servers (with Firefox as the browser). I've also tried with Windows Terminal Services and publishing Edge as a RemoteApp. I set the RemoteApp to "||msedge" and trying to put a URL in the RemoteApp parameters field does not work. The browser also fails to launch. Has anyone successfully configured something like this? I would love to see a working example. I have validated this behavior with several versions from 1.0 all the way up to 1.4. It seems to be consistent across several versions of guacamole.
