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Apache Guacamole

Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC and RDP. We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required.

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  • Linux
  • Self-Hosted
  • Cloudron
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Features

  1.  Clientless Remote Connection
  2.  Dockerized
  3.  Browser-based
  4.  VNC Support
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Two-factor Authentication
  7.  RDP
  8.  User Management
  9.  Web-Based
  10.  Role-based security access
  11.  VNC Viewer

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Top Positive Comment
franoisdelpierre
5

I don't know (yet), but what I can tell is that AlternativeTo is completely wrong. None of the alternative options is build to enable fast access to a desktop in clientless/HTML5 mode.

An alternate option could be parallels.

roemer
1

It is a browser based solution supporting all important protocols (VNC, RDP, SSH). Works flawlessly completely inside Docker.

[Edited by roemer, June 14]

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2

You can connect to your machine via a web browser witch makes it portable, for anyone who wants to connect to that machine, but its difficult to setup on the host machine.

pataners
1

clientless, HTML5 based, blazingly fast and open source!

MysticRyuujin
1

Unfortunately I don't think any of these are alternatives to Guacamole. The whole point of Guacamole is client-less HTML5 based remote access. I think all of these alternatives require the download, and installation/execution of software as well as firewall configuration allowing outbound connections over their ports.

ruvenss
Replying to @MysticRyuujin

Yes I think so. I do agree, I am still trying to find something but that works out of the box.

moritzfl
Replying to @MysticRyuujin

guacamole pretty much does run out of the box without much config (if any). I personally use mattgruters guacamole-docker-containers and it works flawlessly - up and running in <5min. Just be sure to get all 3 containers and then follow the instructions. https://hub.docker.com/r/mattgruter/guacamole-webserver/

Ruvenss G Wilches
CTO at RGW
Replying to @MysticRyuujin

Moritzafl still in incubating phase a an Apache project http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/ so besides not being in a production, which I will expect to be able to deploy in most distros and have some kind of good web gui to admin and setup i will expect more documentation and tutorials; Don't get me wrong I think is a great initiative and I see a lot of potential in the general industry, but still not working out of box, even using Docker.

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What is Apache Guacamole?

Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC and RDP. We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required.

Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser

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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Apache Guacamole, and it has gotten 48 likes

Apache Guacamole was added to AlternativeTo by tabakis on and this page was last updated . Apache Guacamole is sometimes referred to as Guacamole.