Hi Nick, Thanks for being so quick. Just to bookend this, in case anyone else looks at this thread.
I was looking Control/Alt/Shift and then disconnect at top right of panel. This seems to be a little buried in the doc. I'll try and make my users do this. Best regards Hugh --------- https://www.hughbarnard.org Twitter:@hughbarnard Mastodon: @[email protected] Book: https://tinyurl.com/2s4hm33b at Housmans and Freedom Bookshop On Sunday, 12 May 2024 at 13:43, Nick Couchman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 5:02 AM Hugh Barnard > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi folks >> >> I'm very new to guacamole, >> >> I've run up and instance with Tomcat and 1.5.5 on a Raspberry Pi. It works >> and I'm not trying to do multiuser vnc: >> >> - tigervncserver on user1 as :3 >> - tigervncserver on user2 as :4 >> - user-mapping.xml for user1 and user2 >> >> This seems OK, but results in two instances of guacd, is this normal? I'm >> trying to do cleanup scripts etc.so at the moment I have sudo killall guacd. > > Yes, this is perfectly normal - the guacd process forks when a new connection > is created, which starts a new process with the original guacd process as the > parent. If you have 2 active connections you should actually see 3 guacd > processes - the listening/original one, plus one for each connection that is > running. > >> Also when I'm in the Pi desktop is there a clean way of leaving it? I'm >> trying to develop this for Pi students who haven't got a physical Pi yet, >> that's the context of all this. > > From the Guacamole perspective, there's nothing you necessarily need to do to > leave it "cleanly." From the VNC side, keep in mind that you need to factor > in security so that someone cannot come along and connect to the available > VNC port/session and get access to files, applications, etc., that someone > else started. > > -Nick > >>
