Hi Dmitri, I think this would be a great addition. Also it is an apache incubating project.
I had experimented with Ericom AccessNow html5 client - but never found funding for a 50 seat license. It also did not do drive mapping direct. Aaron On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > For the past few days I’ve been looking into integrating Guacamole into VCL, > which would add HTML5 RDP (and VNC/SSH) clients as connection method. > > It looks like a custom Authentication method needs to be implemented on > Guacamole side to link VCL’s database and Guacamole. VCL’s database has all > the info needed to establish RDP connection to a running reservation without > a need for user to login to RDP session. > > I found few older projects (guacamole-auth-hmac and guacamole-auth-hmac-easy) > which accomplish this fairly easy, but these don’t work with Guacamole v0.9.9. > > I wanted to ask if there is interest in adding above integration before > starting to work on it. It looks like it would improve user’s experience and > also it would allow use of tablets with VCL, since it should work with any > HTML5 browser. Also no need for RDP client installed on MAC/Linux. > > One thing is unclear - at least in our environment - is how to access local > drives when connecting via HTML5 RDP. Guacamole offers built-in support for > mapping a drive to a folder on Guacamole server (which could be NFS/SAMBA > mounted to a central storage), but there is no way to map client’s drives > directly. > > > -- > Thank you, > > Dmitri Chebotarov > ITS/SSG @ GMU > 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 [https://goo.gl/maps/w2nCJ6APrHC2] > Phone: (703) 993-6175 | Fax: (703) 993-3404 > Public key: [https://goo.gl/SlE8tj] > -- Aaron Peeler Program Manager Virtual Computing Lab NC State University All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.
