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Re: Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop

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Post by jackweirdy »

desaintmartin wrote: post #17

There already have been a few nice VNC web clients around for a few years, like NoVNC ( http://kanaka.github.io/noVNC/ , python server-side, used in Openstack and others). Unfortunately, there's no magic: you need your VNC/RDP server, then your "clientless server" (proxy socket websocket or alike), then your web server to host the "clientless" client. It's becoming to be interesting when your VNC/RDP client directly…

Do you mean websockets or webrtc? This is a use case for the latter :)

Re: Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop

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Post by desaintmartin »

jackweirdy wrote: post #22
desaintmartin wrote: post #17

There already have been a few nice VNC web clients around for a few years, like NoVNC ( http://kanaka.github.io/noVNC/ , python server-side, used in Openstack and others). Unfortunately, there's no magic: you need your VNC/RDP server, then your "clientless server" (proxy socket websocket or alike), then your web server to host the "clientless" client. It's becoming to be interesting when your VNC/RDP client directly…

Do you mean websockets or webrtc? This is a use case for the latter :)

Agreed! Current implementations (even this one I suppose, althought I didn't have the time to check) use either websocket or older hacks like client-polling or Flash sockets. Time to enter to the future! :)

Re: Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop

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Post by philbarr »

ivansavz wrote: post #20

Could this be used on a Mac? I would like to have remote/shared access to Xcode + iOS dev stack... Or is there some other way to get that?

I use TeamViewer for that, AND Chrome Remote Desktop. I've found that I need both so that if TeamViewer doesn't work for some reason I've still got Chrome available to go in and fix it...

Hardly the best setup but at least it's free. Will be checking this out to see if it fits my reqs.

Re: Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop

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Post by gioele »

jitl wrote: post #12
egeozcan wrote: post #3

Having an HTML5 client built-in doesn't mean that it's "clientless" but it's still impressive. MIT license doesn't hurt, too.

It's "clientless" as in you don't have to install any software on the machine you want to connect from. No need to fiddle with RDP software on your parent's computers, or worry about access control restrictions from a locked-down corporate network. As far as permissions go, if you can browse the internet on a computer, you can remote control your servers with Guacamole.

> It's "clientless" as in you don't have to install any software on the machine you want to connect from.

Except a browser compatible with HTML5-august-2014-revision. Believe it or not, there are many places stuck in pre-HTML5 times (hotel computers, for example).

If it could stream GIFs and accept clicks with server-side image maps, then it would be compatible with every desktop graphical browser in existence (Opera Mini and text browser would still be not enough).

Re: Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop

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Post by fulafel »

Fastidious wrote: post #28
fulafel wrote: post #27

I see a lot of these front pages with "major bummer, this video can't be played with your setup". Feels like the era of Flash all over again.

I don't understand, It seems HTML5 video to me. What kind of setup do you have?

Firefox on Ubuntu. It's probably using a non-free codec (H.264).
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