This sounds interesting Paulo. Is this extension something that you
developed internally or is this an extension that is publicly available?

Thanks, Aaron

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:30 AM, Paulo Gonçalves <[email protected]>
wrote:

> We have created a helpdesk application that works like this:
>
> The client has a Java application that unpacks a VNC server and runs it on
> the localhost.
> Then connects via SSH to the guacamole server and creates 2 tunnels, one
> server to client for the VNC connection, and another one from client to
> server for configuration.
> The server has a guacamole extension that creates connections at runtime.
> For that it listens on a fixed local port and the client connects through
> the client->server SSH tunnel. The client then sends the listening port of
> the server->client SSH tunnel and the VNC password (randomly generated) to
> the extension, and the extension creates the connection.
> On the guacamole web application you just need to refresh the page and the
> connection appears.
> If the client closes the application, the guacamole extension detects that
> the socket is closed and removes the connection.
>
> It works very well and the only port publicly exposed by the guacamole
> server is the SSH port.
> ---
> Paulo Alexandre Figueiredo Gonçalves
> Departamento de Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (DTIC)
>
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> Em 2017-11-15 20:32, Aaron Newsome escreveu:
>
> Hello all.
>
> I'd like to create an RDP connection for a remote network but I first need
> to create an ssh tunnel to the remote network. I'm able to create the ssh
> tunnel manually from the Guacamole server but I'm looking for a way to
> automate this. Otherwise I need to ssh to the Guacamole server first,
> create the tunnel and then connect via RDP.
>
> Has anyone been able to automate this? Any advice on how to do this?
>
> Thanks, Aaron
>
>

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