I looked into Guacamole several years ago (2013?), and even got it to work with the VCL using the VCL's remote API. I recall that, at the time, it showed a lot of potential but that it wasn't stable enough for student and faculty users. I also recall thinking that I should check in on the project in a few years. It seems that now would be a good time to do that.
If, by "accessing local drives", you mean mechanisms for transferring files to/from the remote machine, there are several options: https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/doc/gug/using-guacamole.html#file-transfer. This ranges from simply dragging files onto the browser window, to something called a RDP virtual drive (the details of which I do not understand), to a shell script for transferring files. Aaron Coburn > On Jul 21, 2016, at 4:09 PM, James O'Dell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've interested in adding Guacamole. > > I suggested Guacamole to the VCL group last March when they asked members to > "[DISCUSS] State of Apache VCL". > > I'm glad you brought it up again. > > Thank You! > > __Jim > > On 7/21/2016 11:20 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov 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] >> >
