Hi Nick Issue is that we have machines spread across 4000 miles, so its hard to put it close to the clients :-(
Is there any other protocols that Guacamole could support if they were added into Guac, would be better? On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 12:48 PM Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 7:41 PM Paul Azad <paza...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> The speed of VNC is the issue. The refresh rate, and therefor the >> usability is much slower then RDP. Microsoft have done an awesome job of >> the protocol behind RDP, wish that someone would create remote connection >> application (host end) for Windows that runs the RDP protocol. Not sure why >> this hasnt been done yet though, as the protocol is openly documented by >> Microsoft... If i knew any developers that could do this - i would fund it. >> > > It is true that VNC performance can be problematic, and that RDP seems to > be more efficient at it. However, if you put your guacd server (and, > possibly, your Guacamole Client server) close to the remote end, then you > should get decent performance - Guacamole itself does a very good job of > making the display of protocols like VNC more efficient over > lower-bandwidth, higher-latency links where they've tended to be > problematic in the past. > > VNC does still lack support for some other things that RDP has built-in - > like audio redirection and file and printer redirection - so I'm not saying > it's a 1-for-1 trade. But some of those items can be worked around > (Guacamole support audio redirection on VNC with PulseAudio, for example), > and, depending on your application, it may work fine. > > -Nick > >>
