On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 10:02 PM, dieter-erich
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> After modifying /etc/guacamole/user-mapping.xml IT WORKS! Thank you so
> much for your quick and most helpful answer!
>
> 1) I preferred installing from the repository because I felt it more easy
> and I only later found the very complete description of how to install the
> newer version from source.
>
> Can I still do this? Will it overwrite the older version or do I first have
> to uninstall the old one?
>
You will need to uninstall the old one first.
> 2) I defined a user for tomcat out of despair because I believed that its
> lacking might be a reason for my problem. Now I understand that this is not
> necessary
>
Ah, OK.
> 3) I completely ignored xml synthax and believed that the example would work
> as such and did not need to be modified.
>
> 4) I still cannot login into VNC and, when hitting 'Default' it tries to
> initalize but then I get the message: 'Error initializing VNC client'
> despite it is running and I can connect to it via a VNC client by using the
> same password that is specified in user-mapping.xlm ('xyz' see below). What
> might be the reason? Does the password have to be the same for both, i.e.
> 'tomcat'?
>
No, the VNC password is independent of the user/password used for Guacamole.
> <authorize username="tomcat" password="tomcat">
> <protocol>vnc</protocol>
> <param name="hostname">localhost</param>
> <param name="port">5901</param>
> <param name="password">xyz</param>
> </authorize>
>
You're sure that the VNC server is reachable at localhost from the
machine running guacd (and that 5901 is the correct port)? Remember
the connection is established from the perspective of the Guacamole
server, not the browser.
- Mike
