Re: Understanding Sharing Profile for Non-Admins

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

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 12:42 Khoe, Yonathan <Yo...@unt.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We set up sharing profiles for all of our connections under an admin
> account.  We want the ability for our students to be able to generate a
> share link to their connection viewing (to their professor) when they are
> remoted to a machine.  We thought that this was the idea when we create the
> sharing profiles individually and giving them a read-only option and name,
> but it turns out that our students cannot see the “Share” button when
> opening the Guacamole menu (ctrl+alt+shift).  The student accounts
> themselves do not have any permissions; the user groups that the students
> belong to also do not have permissions set (we only use it to assign the
> connection groups).  Are we missing something in terms of letting
> non-admins to be able to generate a share link to be given to other people?
>

You need to additionally grant the users (or the relevant group) access to
the sharing profile, not just the connection. Only users with access to a
particular sharing profile will be able to share the relevant connection
using that profile.

- Mike