Hello Yves, thank you very much for your suggestion. Veyon looks nice and goes in the same direction as we thought. However, we don't want to miss out on guacamole features. We don't want to manage separate machines, but the guacamole connections.
We use Guacamole that all our students have an identical working environment. They don't have to use private and business computers, which might not work or work differently, e.g. because of different program versions. We also use Guacamole for another important reason. Many of our students use their business computers to study. If the student shares his screen, the lecturer and possibly other students could see important and secret company information. This is extremely questionable for privacy reasons. With Guacamole, our students can safely share their session even though they are using their business computer. For this reason, we would like to make sharing and joining a session of Guacamole easier Regards, Marcel From: Yves Auffret Sent: Saturday, 7 October 2023 16:42 To: [email protected]; Marcel Steiner Subject: Re: Development Question / Best way to sent asharingLink-object to the server Hello Marcel, Have you tried Veyon https://veyon.io/de/ with Guacamole? Regards, Yves Le 7 octobre 2023 à 15:48:31, Marcel Steiner ([email protected]) a écrit: Hello, I work for a department of continuing education at a German university. We do a lot of distance learning, and teaching students about various tools has become more and more common. We would like to allow a course's teacher to join an active connection of one of his students whenever the student asks for help. Furthermore, we would like to reduce cognitive load for everyone. Currently, a student seeking for the teacher's help has actively to create a share Link which must then be transported via video-conferencing chat, messenger or e-mail to reach the teacher. This is too much work when there is already "trouble" with the tool running within Guacamole. For this purpose, we have added a "sharingLinks"-column to the SettingSessions.html table. All sharing links created by the student should be automatically displayed on the teacher's screen. So whenever a student asks for help, the teacher can start joining a read-only or read-write session once the student agreed on. Each time the ManagedClient.createShareLink-method is called, the created link should be sent to the server and added to the respective active connection. Since we have only recently started working on guacamole development and the documentation is very sparse, we now ask ourselves what would be the best way to send the created link object to the server? I would be very thankful for any help! Kind regards, Marcel
