Hi, Nick, thanks for your reply! I have also considered the solution of cleaning folders regularly, but it is not easy to set up a cleaning process for each folder. If I directly clean the entire upper-level folder, it will affect the active connections. In fact, I also plan to modify the logic of guacamole-client, set a folder for each connection, and then let guacd delete the file after disconnection, that is, add this part of the code in the guac_rdp_fs_delete function, such as rmdir(fs->drive_path). This seems to be a relatively simple way to achieve my goal, and it will not affect other links. I wonder if there are other things to consider? I just glanced at the guacd code in this section and I don't know if these functions will affect other places.
| | Alex_Yin | | skyywh2...@163.com | ---- Replied Message ---- | From | Nick Couchman<vn...@apache.org> | | Date | 04/23/2025 03:45 | | To | <user@guacamole.apache.org> | | Subject | Re: How to delete the local folder created by create-drive-path in guacd when the RDP connection is disconnected. | On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM Alex_Yin <skyywh2...@163.com> wrote: Hello! I am trying to connect to Windows using rdp through guacamole, and successfully mounted the network drive. But when I used the network drive to download something and disconnected the link, the folder created by guacd locally was still there. After reading the source code, I found that guacd does not delete the created folder after disconnecting the link, and there is no parameter to achieve this function. I started guacd through docker, and the version used is guacamole 1.5.0. You are correct - there is no such parameter to accomplish this, and the code does not do it by default. The assumption made in implementing it is that users and admins would want the storage location to be persistent across multiple systems and multiple logins. Personally, I use this to provide persistent storage across the systems that I access from Guacamole - having it removed each time would be disastrous :-D. That doesn't make your request or situation invalid - you just have a different use-case. The parameters are as follows: "enable-drive": “true"，"create-drive-path": “true"，"drive-name": “disk"，"client-name": “nickname"，"drive-path": "/Users/alex/guacd/disk/" I desire a solution where the folders generated by guacd are deleted upon disconnection. Is there a method to achieve this function? I can think of one way to (sort of) accomplish this without modifications to the code - if you use the extension that allows for viewing connection recording history in the web interface (https://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/recording-playback.html), you could use the ${HISTORY_UUID} token within the drive-path parameter, and, you'd essentially get a unique folder for each connection. You could then have a process run once per day to clean up any folder older than 1 day, or whatever parameters work for you. That's a sort of round-about way to accomplish it - the more proper way would be some sort of connection parameter ( "delete-drive": "true") that would delete it upon disconnect. However, you'd want to carefully consider all the possible scenarios with this - for example, let's say you have two RDP connections, RDP1 and RDP2, both pointed at the same folder ("/Users/alex/guacd/disk"). What happens when you disconnect from RDP1 but RDP2 is still running?? There may be some way that guacd could check for open handles on that file and delete only if nothing has it open, but that's adding a decent amount of complexity to that code. -Nick
