Re: ubuntu 18.04 w guacd, pulseaudio, xrdp, pavucontrol shows xrdp audio output but no sound locally

2018-09-07 Thread brian mullan
Nick
I figured out what was wrong.

I have had my own script for quite awhile that installed guacamole, nginx,
tomcat, freerdp & xrdp automatically and in MY script I had the following
commands:

# Add links for FreeRDP depending on architecture

*mkdir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/freerdp/ln -s
/usr/local/lib/freerdp/guac*.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/freerdp/*

However, for the last couple weeks I was helping someone else out with some
fixes for their script (https://github.com/MysticRyuujin/guac-install)
I just realized that his script does not fully install all the RDP support
and thus did not have the above commands to link the guac .so to the
freerdp.

I just did the above manually and it seems to work now.

Jeez I'd forgotten I'd used his script to install guacamole on this cloud
server and kept wondering why things were broken ...

Thanks gain tho' as your comment was what made me look and realize this.

Brian



On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 3:38 PM brian mullan  wrote:

> Thanks Nick !!
>
> I don't have any Windows machines to try this with but as to your second
> suggestion:
>
> Did you correctly link the Guacamole RDP plugins to the FreeRDP lib
>> directory?  These are the .so files in the lib/freerdp directory where
>> guacd is installed - in some cases those need to be linked into
>> /usr/lib64/freerdp (RHEL/CentOS) or /usr/lib/freerdp, etc.
>>
>
> I'll have to start the cloud server up again and check.
>
> Thanks for the ideas though as I was getting at a loss for what else might
> be causing the problem.
>
> Brian
>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 2:28 PM Nick Couchman  wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 9:49 AM brian mullan 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a cloud server with
>>>
>>> ubuntu 18.04
>>> guacamole v0.9.14 installed
>>> pulseaudio 11.1
>>> latest xrdp, xorgxrdp and the 2 pulseaudio .so files built & installed
>>> for xrdp pulseaudio connectivity.
>>>
>>> Before trying to login to the remote desktop using  Chrome & Guacamole I
>>> tested just logging in directly using xfreerdp on my local machine:
>>>
>>> xfreerdp /cert-ignore /u:bmullan /p: /sound:sys:alsa
>>> /v:X.X.X.X:3389
>>>
>>> and Audio *DOES* work !
>>>
>>> So next I used Chrome to log into the remote Ubuntu Desktop with
>>> Guacamole.  Login works ok and I execute pavucontrol on the cloud server so
>>> I can see if audio is playing
>>>
>>> I then execute:
>>> $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/*
>>>
>>> and although pavucontrol does show audio output from xrdp from the aplay
>>> guacamole is not playing that audio on my local chrome (or firefox) browser.
>>>
>>> I've attached a short screen capture video showing this.
>>>
>>> And although Nick's comment in this thread
>>> 
>>>
>>> was about Guacamole's VNC & I am using Guacamole's RDP w/xrdp on the
>>> Ubuntu... I was more interested in "how" guacd comsumes the remote audio
>>> and gets it back to the local client machine running the Browser that
>>> connects to it.
>>>
>>
>> The methods used for audio playback are very different between the
>> protocols.  VNC does not have any built-in audio support, which is why this
>> method of modifying PulseAudio and forwarding through that exists.  So, for
>> VNC connections, guacd sets up a separate link to the PulseAudio daemon
>> running on the VNC server and then takes care of translating the VNC +
>> PulseAudio streams into the Guacamole protocol, which is then redirected to
>> the browser.
>>
>> When using the RDP protocol with Guacamole, no such link to PulseAudio
>> exists - this is because RDP already includes the ability to forward audio
>> as part of the protocol, and so guacd is able to pick up the audio from the
>> RDP stream and there's no need to work around the lack of support as in the
>> VNC protocol.
>>
>> The fact that you can hear the audio when connecting with xfreerdp means
>> that xrdp is correctly passing audio through the RDP protocol to the
>> client, so you just need to figure out why guacd isn't picking it up.  I
>> have a couple of initial things for you to try/verify:
>> - Does audio work through Guacamole when you connect to a Windows server,
>> but not to the Linux server (xrdp)?
>> - Did you correctly link the Guacamole RDP plugins to the FreeRDP lib
>> directory?  These are the .so files in the lib/freerdp directory where
>> guacd is installed - in some cases those need to be linked into
>> /usr/lib64/freerdp (RHEL/CentOS) or /usr/lib/freerdp, etc.
>>
>> -Nick
>>
>>>


Re: ubuntu 18.04 w guacd, pulseaudio, xrdp, pavucontrol shows xrdp audio output but no sound locally

2018-09-07 Thread brian mullan
Thanks Nick !!

I don't have any Windows machines to try this with but as to your second
suggestion:

Did you correctly link the Guacamole RDP plugins to the FreeRDP lib
> directory?  These are the .so files in the lib/freerdp directory where
> guacd is installed - in some cases those need to be linked into
> /usr/lib64/freerdp (RHEL/CentOS) or /usr/lib/freerdp, etc.
>

I'll have to start the cloud server up again and check.

Thanks for the ideas though as I was getting at a loss for what else might
be causing the problem.

Brian

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 2:28 PM Nick Couchman  wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 9:49 AM brian mullan 
> wrote:
>
>> I have a cloud server with
>>
>> ubuntu 18.04
>> guacamole v0.9.14 installed
>> pulseaudio 11.1
>> latest xrdp, xorgxrdp and the 2 pulseaudio .so files built & installed
>> for xrdp pulseaudio connectivity.
>>
>> Before trying to login to the remote desktop using  Chrome & Guacamole I
>> tested just logging in directly using xfreerdp on my local machine:
>>
>> xfreerdp /cert-ignore /u:bmullan /p: /sound:sys:alsa
>> /v:X.X.X.X:3389
>>
>> and Audio *DOES* work !
>>
>> So next I used Chrome to log into the remote Ubuntu Desktop with
>> Guacamole.  Login works ok and I execute pavucontrol on the cloud server so
>> I can see if audio is playing
>>
>> I then execute:
>> $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/*
>>
>> and although pavucontrol does show audio output from xrdp from the aplay
>> guacamole is not playing that audio on my local chrome (or firefox) browser.
>>
>> I've attached a short screen capture video showing this.
>>
>> And although Nick's comment in this thread
>> 
>>
>> was about Guacamole's VNC & I am using Guacamole's RDP w/xrdp on the
>> Ubuntu... I was more interested in "how" guacd comsumes the remote audio
>> and gets it back to the local client machine running the Browser that
>> connects to it.
>>
>
> The methods used for audio playback are very different between the
> protocols.  VNC does not have any built-in audio support, which is why this
> method of modifying PulseAudio and forwarding through that exists.  So, for
> VNC connections, guacd sets up a separate link to the PulseAudio daemon
> running on the VNC server and then takes care of translating the VNC +
> PulseAudio streams into the Guacamole protocol, which is then redirected to
> the browser.
>
> When using the RDP protocol with Guacamole, no such link to PulseAudio
> exists - this is because RDP already includes the ability to forward audio
> as part of the protocol, and so guacd is able to pick up the audio from the
> RDP stream and there's no need to work around the lack of support as in the
> VNC protocol.
>
> The fact that you can hear the audio when connecting with xfreerdp means
> that xrdp is correctly passing audio through the RDP protocol to the
> client, so you just need to figure out why guacd isn't picking it up.  I
> have a couple of initial things for you to try/verify:
> - Does audio work through Guacamole when you connect to a Windows server,
> but not to the Linux server (xrdp)?
> - Did you correctly link the Guacamole RDP plugins to the FreeRDP lib
> directory?  These are the .so files in the lib/freerdp directory where
> guacd is installed - in some cases those need to be linked into
> /usr/lib64/freerdp (RHEL/CentOS) or /usr/lib/freerdp, etc.
>
> -Nick
>
>>


Re: ubuntu 18.04 w guacd, pulseaudio, xrdp, pavucontrol shows xrdp audio output but no sound locally

2018-09-07 Thread Nick Couchman
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 9:49 AM brian mullan  wrote:

> I have a cloud server with
>
> ubuntu 18.04
> guacamole v0.9.14 installed
> pulseaudio 11.1
> latest xrdp, xorgxrdp and the 2 pulseaudio .so files built & installed for
> xrdp pulseaudio connectivity.
>
> Before trying to login to the remote desktop using  Chrome & Guacamole I
> tested just logging in directly using xfreerdp on my local machine:
>
> xfreerdp /cert-ignore /u:bmullan /p: /sound:sys:alsa
> /v:X.X.X.X:3389
>
> and Audio *DOES* work !
>
> So next I used Chrome to log into the remote Ubuntu Desktop with
> Guacamole.  Login works ok and I execute pavucontrol on the cloud server so
> I can see if audio is playing
>
> I then execute:
> $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/*
>
> and although pavucontrol does show audio output from xrdp from the aplay
> guacamole is not playing that audio on my local chrome (or firefox) browser.
>
> I've attached a short screen capture video showing this.
>
> And although Nick's comment in this thread
> 
>
> was about Guacamole's VNC & I am using Guacamole's RDP w/xrdp on the
> Ubuntu... I was more interested in "how" guacd comsumes the remote audio
> and gets it back to the local client machine running the Browser that
> connects to it.
>

The methods used for audio playback are very different between the
protocols.  VNC does not have any built-in audio support, which is why this
method of modifying PulseAudio and forwarding through that exists.  So, for
VNC connections, guacd sets up a separate link to the PulseAudio daemon
running on the VNC server and then takes care of translating the VNC +
PulseAudio streams into the Guacamole protocol, which is then redirected to
the browser.

When using the RDP protocol with Guacamole, no such link to PulseAudio
exists - this is because RDP already includes the ability to forward audio
as part of the protocol, and so guacd is able to pick up the audio from the
RDP stream and there's no need to work around the lack of support as in the
VNC protocol.

The fact that you can hear the audio when connecting with xfreerdp means
that xrdp is correctly passing audio through the RDP protocol to the
client, so you just need to figure out why guacd isn't picking it up.  I
have a couple of initial things for you to try/verify:
- Does audio work through Guacamole when you connect to a Windows server,
but not to the Linux server (xrdp)?
- Did you correctly link the Guacamole RDP plugins to the FreeRDP lib
directory?  These are the .so files in the lib/freerdp directory where
guacd is installed - in some cases those need to be linked into
/usr/lib64/freerdp (RHEL/CentOS) or /usr/lib/freerdp, etc.

-Nick

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