Apache Guacamole: Open-Source Self-Hosted Remote Access Gateway To Access Various Computers With Just A Browser

To normally access say two Raspberry Pi's, maybe a remote virtual private server, a media machine in the sitting room, etc you'd probably use SSH from a terminal, as well as say a VNC Viewer, and maybe more applications. And you'd have to do that from the admin machine you've set it all up on.

With Apache Guacamole gateway setup, you'd just use your browser to log in to Apache Guacamole, and from there click on which machine you'd like to access remotely, whether by SSH, VNC, or RDP. The effort is done once to set up the configurations, but after that you can access via the gateway from any location, or even grant others access. So you are not tied to one admin machine that has all your remote access applications configured (big bonus if you are remote or travelling, as you just need a browser to access Apache Guacamole).

See https://guacamole.apache.org/

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My employer uses it! Does it work? Yes it does, is it practical? Absolutely no! Every time i press ctrl-r I start swearing because the browser page reloads and I have to make the login again, even more the version used by the employer has a bug that force you to login on remote windows machine twice, the first login attempt goes ok but the session resets immediately and I have to login again. Clearly is better than nothing and you can avoid setup a vpn or another solution the could not be applied by the company for whatever reason. Another problem is the copy and paste between local and remote machine doesn’t work, neither a file transfer, but I don’t know if those features are missing or disabled the the employer 🤔

I hope all the above mentioned issues are related to the inability of the it team of my company, so a fresh test by someone is welcome