Guacamole Remote Access

Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway, installable on Linux systems, which connects a local workstation to remote desktops using an HTML5 browser.

Guacamole supports standard protocols like SSH, VNC, and RDP to access remote desktops. Thanks to HTML5, no plugins or client software are required at the remote systems. Both server and client packages are installed on the local accessing machine, and access is provided via a single web browser link.

Ubuntu configuration

Guacamole is not yet packaged properly for Ubuntu, and so dependencies must be met by a script. The following instructions were sourced from a TecMint Script.

Guacamole Server & Client

Download the Guacamole installation script:

_downloads/guacamole-server.sh

Then run it from the console with the command:

sudo bash ./guacamole-server.sh

Configuring Guacamole

Download the Guacamole configuration script:

_downloads/guacamole-configure.sh

Then run it from the console with the command:

sudo bash ./guacamole-configure.sh