Hi Nick, I was thinking share a connection will allow user to share the desktop with other users (read-only) to see what they are doing. Is it not the way Share a connection work?
Regards, Umesh From: Paul Azad <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 8:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: RDP Shadow option 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? [https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=2be95c36-f3de-4da7-ad85-788bdbbfddef&cm_type=open&[email protected]][https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=2be95c36-f3de-4da7-ad85-788bdbbfddef&cm_type=open&[email protected]] On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 12:48 PM Nick Couchman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 7:41 PM Paul Azad <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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. [https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=ed89f4dd-6ef4-431d-8211-3b766a71ea54&cm_type=open&[email protected]][https://contactmonkey.com/api/v1/tracker?cm_session=ed89f4dd-6ef4-431d-8211-3b766a71ea54&cm_type=open&[email protected]] 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
