Drive shortcut on desktop

[Stefan Bogdan Cimpeanu <bo...@cimpeanu.org>]

Hello all,
We’ve received a request in our Guacamole setup to have the user’s mapped drive (we’ve configured for each connection a drive for users to store personal stuff that gets mounted as a drive Z for the RDP connections) as a shortcut on the desktop.
I have no idea how would I be able to do this, given not all connections use such a drive.

Any input would be appreciated.

Cheers!
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Re: Drive shortcut on desktop

[Mike Jumper <mj...@apache.org>]

By the way, a nice trick is to create a shortcut to the special "Download"
folder of the Guacamole drive, such that it's included within the Windows
Explorer "Send To" option:

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/customize-the-windows-vista-send-to-menu/

You can then easily download files by right-clicking and selecting "Send
To" -> "Download".

- Mike


On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 12:21 PM Stefan Bogdan Cimpeanu <bo...@cimpeanu.org>
wrote:

> Hi Nick,
> \\tsclient\Z in my case as shortcut is good enough.
> Thank you!
>
> On 14 Jun 2020, at 21:25, Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 2:20 PM Stefan Bogdan Cimpeanu <
> bogdan@cimpeanu.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> We’ve received a request in our Guacamole setup to have the user’s mapped
>> drive (we’ve configured for each connection a drive for users to store
>> personal stuff that gets mounted as a drive Z for the RDP connections) as a
>> shortcut on the desktop.
>> I have no idea how would I be able to do this, given not all connections
>> use such a drive.
>>
>> Any input would be appreciated.
>>
>>
> Guacamole does not have a way to create a shortcut on the desktop.
> Assuming you are running Windows you can use Group Policy to create the
> shortcut to \\tsclient\Guacamole (or whatever path yours points to).
>
> For Linux (via XRDP, for example) there are ways to do this, too - there
> are policies for most of the desktop environments that allow for the
> creation of system-wide shortcuts.
>
> -Nick
>
>
>

Re: Drive shortcut on desktop

[Stefan Bogdan Cimpeanu <bo...@cimpeanu.org>]

Hi Nick,
\\tsclient\Z <smb://tsclient/Z> in my case as shortcut is good enough. 
Thank you!

> On 14 Jun 2020, at 21:25, Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 2:20 PM Stefan Bogdan Cimpeanu <bogdan@cimpeanu.org <ma...@cimpeanu.org>> wrote:
> Hello all,
> We’ve received a request in our Guacamole setup to have the user’s mapped drive (we’ve configured for each connection a drive for users to store personal stuff that gets mounted as a drive Z for the RDP connections) as a shortcut on the desktop.
> I have no idea how would I be able to do this, given not all connections use such a drive.
> 
> Any input would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Guacamole does not have a way to create a shortcut on the desktop.  Assuming you are running Windows you can use Group Policy to create the shortcut to \\tsclient\Guacamole (or whatever path yours points to).
> 
> For Linux (via XRDP, for example) there are ways to do this, too - there are policies for most of the desktop environments that allow for the creation of system-wide shortcuts.
> 
> -Nick

Re: Drive shortcut on desktop

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

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 2:20 PM Stefan Bogdan Cimpeanu <bo...@cimpeanu.org>
wrote:

> Hello all,
> We’ve received a request in our Guacamole setup to have the user’s mapped
> drive (we’ve configured for each connection a drive for users to store
> personal stuff that gets mounted as a drive Z for the RDP connections) as a
> shortcut on the desktop.
> I have no idea how would I be able to do this, given not all connections
> use such a drive.
>
> Any input would be appreciated.
>
>
Guacamole does not have a way to create a shortcut on the desktop.
Assuming you are running Windows you can use Group Policy to create the
shortcut to \\tsclient\Guacamole (or whatever path yours points to).

For Linux (via XRDP, for example) there are ways to do this, too - there
are policies for most of the desktop environments that allow for the
creation of system-wide shortcuts.

-Nick