From official website of gaucamole i.e. (http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org)-
Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports
standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH.
We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are
required.
Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need
to access your desktops is a web browser.
Can I setup guacamole on windows server 2012. If yes how ?
It should be possible to run the Guacamole Docker container in the Docker Toolbox under Windows Server 2012.
This reduces the overhead compared to a full blown VM like suggested by Bram.
The anwser is no, the manual is made for linux distro (since the guacd daemon is written for Linux).. So i would install it on Ubuntu in vmware on the Windows server. That way it is possible.
Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH.
Visit this link for the install: https://www.mogilowski.net/2020/03/24/windows-10-server-2016-rdp-work-with-guacamole/
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I need to access Azure Linux( RedHat 7) via RDP so that we can connect this vm in GUI mode. Please suggest how to achieve this.
To get RDP-like functionality with Linux using Microsoft Windows as the client, look at programs like Xming or X-Win32. You might refer to the CentOS Wiki on the subject: https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xming
Essentially it is a three step process:
Install X system on the remote system (VM)
Install an X tool such as Xming or X-Win32 on the local system
Enable X11 forwarding on SSH tunnel (PuTTY, Bitvise, WinSCP, etc)
Be sure to include on the remote system useful X applications such as xterm.
First google result:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/use-remote-desktop
Linux does not have RDP (that's a Windows protocol), but there are alternative solutions like xrdp. However, first you most likely need to install a graphical desktop environment like xfce4.
Has anyone successfully used XRDP/freeRDP to remote login to a Windows PC from a LINUX Client? I did some research on the matter and I found there may be incompatibility issues. However those posts were quite old.
I would like to use the latest XRDP or freeRDP
The site says the following:
"The goal of this project is to provide a fully functional Linux terminal server, capable of accepting connections from rdesktop, freerdp, and Microsoft's own terminal server / remote desktop clients.
Unlike Windows NT/2000/2003/2008/2012 server, xrdp will not display a Windows desktop but an X window desktop to the user.
So it sounds like I can communicate between a Linux Box and Windows. But it sounds like the Windows PC can only be the client logging into a Linux Server and not vice-versa."
Is this true?
That's not true. You can using a freeRDP client in Linux connecting to a server on Windows. I've just tried the latest freeRDP code in Ubuntu, and I've tested Win7/Win10, both are OK.
Follow the instruction of freeRDP in the following link:
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/wiki/Compilation
and hope you make it.
Ps: There may be some connectivity issues, like firewall or something, just google it.
I have a Debian server (VPS) and a Windows server (at home). I would like to backup periodically some paths of my Debian to My Windows server. My WS act as NAS and I use it for my all backup.
Firstly I started to configure a cron task with rsync on my Debian but as there is no native ssh server on Windows server it may not be the best solution. Then I was wondering if it would not be better to use my windows server to pull data from my debian to windows.
Here is the only link I found that make things on this way: http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/
(server pull from client)
Also my windows server is at my home and it bring one constraint which is that I can change my home location, so my ip change too and all the configuration of router. I would like to just plug the windows server and let it continue to work normally.
What do you guys think about all of that ? Is it an elegant solution to make this on this way ?
Do I have to install cygwin with rsync ? Is it possible to set a periodic task on my windows server ?
Thanks in advance.
As you pointed out in your question - being that your Windows machine is behind a NAT router, it may be simpler for your windows machine to 'pull' files from your Debian VM, as opposed to your Debian VM 'pushing' files to your Windows machine. Pushing files from your Debian VM to your Windows machine would require you to setup some type of server on your Windows machine that would listen for incoming connections from your Debian VM on some designated port, it would required that you setup a port-forwarding rule on your NAT router, and it would require you to setup a dynamic DNS hostname that would change whenever your router's public IP changes. And, since you would be opening a port up to the public, it would also require you to take into account security considerations to make sure that nothing gets compromised.
So, pulling files to your Windows machine from your Debian VM would be simpler. One way to do this would be to install Cygwin and use rsync, as you mentioned. Another solution may be to install putty on the windows machine, then use pscp on the windows machine to copy files from the remote debian host to the windows machine. The pscp command can be scripted using a DOS batch script, Powershell, or any number of other windows scripting tools. See http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter5.html for more info.
I'm looking at setting up a gitlab server (using a linux machine) with several devs on Windows PCs using it. I basically wanted to know if that's possible? I can't seem to find a definitive answer!
Thanks!
Yes, it's definitely possible. I'm using just the same - GitLab hosted on a Linux server while devs are on both Windows and Linux (VMs running on Windows).
Techically, there's no difference to it. You use SSH and HTTPS for client-server communication which are standard platform independent protocols. It's the same as using github.com, gitlab.com or any other such provider from any operating system.
The place I work has Gitlabs deployed can be on a linux server, while developers can be on either Windows or Linux desktops.
Git makes use of SSH and to connect to remote clients and Windows doesn't support SSH out of the box, however the installer for git comes bundled with all the features you will need to run a shell and connect to a remote server via SSH on windows. It also includes a basic UI, Git-Gui. You can download the installer from http://git-scm.com.
I created an EC2 Amazon Linux instance (yes, an amazon version of linux..)
it is launched but I can't connect using Remote Desktop...
am I trying to do something crazy here?
I got a message that Remote Computer is not available on the network
If you mean Windows RDP (Remote Desktop) that is your problem. Most likely you will need to use an SSH client to connect. I suggest Putty.
You should've received an SSH key when you setup your server. You will need to convert that key using PuttyGEN (same page as the Putty download) to convert it then use it with Putty to access the server.
Trying to walk you through the process of installing a GUI and VNC on the server is a bit much for here but give this video a shot. It seems pretty thorough and from skipping through it I saw no obvious errors in his process.
Try installing the vnc4server package. Then you can use a client such as TightVNC to connect from a Windows machine. You'll also need to open up port number 5900 in your firewall, which is the default for VNC.
You'll also have to have a desktop environment installed on your EC2 instance - by default you may only have the server packages which will not give you a GUI.
For your information, some folks posted remote desktop conf for EC2 instances.
http://activeintelligence.org/blog/archive/remote-graphical-linux-desktop-on-ec2/