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Re: Show HN: Remote Desktop from any browser

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I tried showing a quick demo in the attached video. I wonder how can I improve this.

The demo didn't show up for me (Brave v.0.20.29) until I started to scroll down, and it was not obvious to me that I could do so until I read this comment and wondered. EDIT: to be clear, there was enough screen real estate to show it; it was simply empty white.

Might be a bug. Let me try it on Brave.

Re: Show HN: Remote Desktop from any browser

#23
Fun Story:

I decided i wanted to be able to VNC into my home computer while I was at work for various reasons. I fwd'd port 5900 from my router to my pc and would just point my VNC client at work to my home IP. This worked well for a really long time until one night I came home, turned my PC on and discovered a crypto miner running and upon checking my webhistory my g-mail account, lastpass vault and pretty much every other account I had had been accessed and drained. Checked Windows system logs and saw the guy got in through VNC, even though i had a reasonably complex password and secure connection enabled. How does this protect me against people using stuff like shodan or masscan from finding my connection details and bruteforcing the pw?

Re: Show HN: Remote Desktop from any browser

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This should work from anywhere if the server you are connecting to has a public IP.

None of 'all my desktops' have a public ip. Therefore I use Teamviewer or Google RemoteDesktop which give access to any desktop anywhere. Occasionally I use vnc or rdp for the networks where I can use vpn for access. Its still very unclear to me what your added valude is ?

I believe most of the rented VMs on AWS/Azure have public IPs. I suppose you could use this product with those.

Re: Show HN: Remote Desktop from any browser

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post #17

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None of 'all my desktops' have a public ip. Therefore I use Teamviewer or Google RemoteDesktop which give access to any desktop anywhere. Occasionally I use vnc or rdp for the networks where I can use vpn for access. Its still very unclear to me what your added valude is ?

I believe most of the rented VMs on AWS/Azure have public IPs. I suppose you could use this product with those.

But in that case we can just run vnc on the server

Re: Show HN: Remote Desktop from any browser

#27

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The demo didn't show up for me (Brave v.0.20.29) until I started to scroll down, and it was not obvious to me that I could do so until I read this comment and wondered. EDIT: to be clear, there was enough screen real estate to show it; it was simply empty white.

Might be a bug. Let me try it on Brave.

Same bug happened to me on Chrome stable, though only on the first load

Re: Show HN: Remote Desktop from any browser

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post #24

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I believe most of the rented VMs on AWS/Azure have public IPs. I suppose you could use this product with those.

But in that case we can just run vnc on the server

I've found RDP to be a better protocol, personally.

Re: Show HN: Remote Desktop from any browser

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Doesn't Guacamole Client's Apache License 2.0 require you to provide copyright notice / attribution for using it in this way? I don't see it anywhere here.

I think the Apache License 2.0 does not require any attribution or copyright notice, unless you redistribute the source code. https://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html#WhatDoesI...

From the license itself, it seems like you do need to include the license contents within the derivative work somewhere. Since "Derivative works" includes "Object" (compiled) projects, and 4a states:

> You must give any other recipients of the Work or Derivative Works a copy of this License

They're pretty clear on attribution being in the source only in 4c:

> You must retain, in the Source form of any Derivative Works that You distribute, all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices from the Source form of the Work, excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Derivative Works

Re: Show HN: Remote Desktop from any browser

#30

How does it fair against a firewall or behind a router? Is it just a simple client for convenience or does it provide a server too? Cause being able to pass through a firewall would be worth paying for, otherwise I still have the same problems as using a normal client.

This works through websockets. So if you (the client) can access this website, you can RDP to your machines.

But how does it work if I can't normally RDP to my computer due to NAT router?
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