RDP virtual drive configuration with Guacamole docker

["Víctor J. Sánchez" <vj...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I'm trying to work with RDP virtual drive to share files between remote 
hosts and browser clients. Both guacamole and guacd servers are running 
on docker. When I run guacd container I pass it a named volume to store 
the shared files. In the host filesystem I set permissions to guacd 
container user can access to it. If I don't as I commented it can't 
upload files due to lack of permissions. But in the remote server (a 
Linux in my case) when I try to access to the shared drive with 
smb://tsclient/share (for example), it ask me for credentials: I enter 
the remote user and password but it's unsuccesful.

In summary, I don't know if the way I set the RDP virtual drive with 
docker is fine. The Apache Guacamole manual is not very accurate with 
the method on docker containers. It only describes the parameters. I 
don't know if the use of a docker volume in this case is accurate. Same 
for alter filesystem permissions in the docker mapped volume directories.

Thanks in advance.


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Re: RDP virtual drive configuration with Guacamole docker

[Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org>]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 4:22 AM Víctor J. Sánchez <vj...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to work with RDP virtual drive to share files between remote
> hosts and browser clients. Both guacamole and guacd servers are running
> on docker. When I run guacd container I pass it a named volume to store
> the shared files. In the host filesystem I set permissions to guacd
> container user can access to it. If I don't as I commented it can't
> upload files due to lack of permissions. But in the remote server (a
> Linux in my case) when I try to access to the shared drive with
> smb://tsclient/share (for example), it ask me for credentials: I enter
> the remote user and password but it's unsuccesful.
>
>
Yes, this would not be correct - when the drive is forwarded by RDP, there
shouldn't be anything authentication required, so entering the credentials
of the remote user would not result in a successful connection.

I also connect via RDP to Linux systems using the Virtual Drive option, and
it mounts the drive automatically without issue - I don't have to use any
smb-specific path with this, and I never get prompted for authentication.


> In summary, I don't know if the way I set the RDP virtual drive with
> docker is fine. The Apache Guacamole manual is not very accurate with
> the method on docker containers. It only describes the parameters. I
> don't know if the use of a docker volume in this case is accurate. Same
> for alter filesystem permissions in the docker mapped volume directories.
>
>
I don't think this is a Docker issue. As you mentioned above, the Docker
container has to have permissions to access the volume/directory you are
sharing via RDP virtual drive, and that is expected. I believe the issue
you're seeing is more related to how the Linux server is expected to
connect to the virtual drive, and I do not believe this has anything to do
with Docker or even Guacamole.

-Nick