| I hope this project has matured since I last tried it (18 months ago). As wOutert mentioned, the installation process is difficult and not for the faint of heart. Sure, most folks reading this here could manage it, but we're not normal! I really wanted this to work since I'm teaching at a school where all the Windows machines are locked down. I teach a Linux class. I teach a bunch of cyber-security classes and often need to install tools for this. Our IT administrators either refuse to let me install the software I need to teach or put up a huge stink. I stood up a few VMs in my homelab for teaching and was hopeful that I could remote in painlessly. After much weeping and gnashing of teeth I finally got it working. And it worked well. About once a month I do a "yum update" on my CentOS machines and when it ran on this particular machine, it broke something in the Guac stack. I refused to spend the time to fix it! Simultaneously, I'd been having trouble with TeamViewer. The unfortunate reality of any IT professional's life is that you end up doing IT support for the family. TeamViewer was fine for years, but they started flagging my use as commercial. After looking and testing I found AnyDesk; it works every bit as well as TeamViewer and it has a Windows portable client; you don't need to install anything on the client machine (no admin rights needed). So now I either boot my machines from a USB stick with Linux or AnyDesk to where I need to go and my life is much better. When Guacamole is mature and painless like AnyDesk, I'd give it another look. |