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Ask HN: Modern alternatives to Guacamole as RDP gateway?
13 points by rcarmo on Feb 1, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
I’ve had a long history with RDP (https://taoofmac.com/space/protocols/rdp) and use it extensively on Linux with the new GPU-accelerated xrdp builds, but I have been looking for a modern replacement to Apache Guacamole that can work as a direct web-to-RDP bastion without requiring a database container, Java or a lot of overhead, and all I can find are 3-4 year old Rust/WASM projects in various states of abandonment.

Is there anything like that in active development? I know people will suggest KasmVNC, but that isn’t really what I am looking for (and the wire protocol isn’t as efficient as RDP).



I'm unsure how have you not stumbled upon RustDesk[0].

[0] - https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk


That's neither simple nor really a web-based gateway...


Rustdesk web client is currently in beta testing:

https://rustdesk.com/blog/2024/10/rustdesk-web-client-v2-pre...


Yes, but I need to connect to existing RDP servers. No way I'm going to be able to install anything else.


There is TRMM (tactical remote management).

https://docs.tacticalrmm.com/

But it's hard to setup and pretty huge.


Can you elaborate on what's exactly wrong with Guacamole in your scenario?




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