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Posted to user@guacamole.apache.org by Alex ARNAUD <al...@hypra.fr> on 2017/12/14 16:09:33 UTC
Alternative for TeamViewer via Guacamole
Hello all,
I'm working at a company that helps visual-impaired, regular users and
elderly people to access to the computer based on free and open-source
software. We provide training and support for them.
We need to be able to take control of their computer and we're searching
for an alternative to TeamViewer.
We would like to able to reproduce a similar procedure as TeamViewer
does and to access the users computer from the Guacamole interface.
I've searched a lot on the internet without to find solution and script
that could help me to do that. I'm surprised that I have not found
anything because I imagine other people or companies have the same
requirement as we have.
Are you aware of any solution or script that could help me to solve my
issue?
Best regards.
--
Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
Re: Alternative for TeamViewer via Guacamole
Posted by "Jonathan F. McDonagh" <jo...@mcdonagh.com>.
Jim
You might what to explain our Fridley solution.
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On Dec 14, 2017, at 10:09 AM, Alex ARNAUD <al...@hypra.fr>> wrote:
Hello all,
I'm working at a company that helps visual-impaired, regular users and
elderly people to access to the computer based on free and open-source
software. We provide training and support for them.
We need to be able to take control of their computer and we're searching
for an alternative to TeamViewer.
We would like to able to reproduce a similar procedure as TeamViewer
does and to access the users computer from the Guacamole interface.
I've searched a lot on the internet without to find solution and script
that could help me to do that. I'm surprised that I have not found
anything because I imagine other people or companies have the same
requirement as we have.
Are you aware of any solution or script that could help me to solve my
issue?
Best regards.
--
Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
Re: Alternative for TeamViewer via Guacamole
Posted by dan <da...@gmail.com>.
I've also been using zerotier the same way. I have a guac server on the
same zt network and run a vnc client on the remote computers. I've got
PC's, MACs, and raspberri pi's on this and it's pretty great.
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Chris Stave <ch...@voxmedia.com>
wrote:
> Guacamole is great when you can reach the user's computer -- for spread
> out users, it gets a little more complicated. Setting up VPN tunnels for
> people would be pretty painful and hard to manage, require some central
> point, and wouldn't be super-fantastic. For an easy way to get
> reachability (and then you can use plain-ol'-VNC or set up Guacamole as a
> nice front end to it), I have been using ZeroTier, which pretty-painlessly
> connects users to a secured flat network. Most of their offering is Open
> Source. Give it a try on a computer or two and verify that it would do
> what you'd want it to, and then you can figure out some simple network
> rules (eg. don't let people tagged with "end user" talk to each other,
> maybe?) and roll it out. The installation is easy and generally it "just
> works."
>
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Alex ARNAUD <al...@hypra.fr> wrote:
>
>> Le 14/12/2017 à 17:20, brian mullan a écrit :
>>
>>> What kind of computers do they have.
>>>
>>
>> We're using Debian 8 "Jessie".
>>
>>
>> Best regards.
>> --
>> Alex ARNAUD
>> Visual-Impairment Project Manager
>> Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
>>
>
>
>
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Re: Alternative for TeamViewer via Guacamole
Posted by Alex ARNAUD <al...@hypra.fr>.
Le 14/12/2017 à 19:55, Chris Stave a écrit :
> Guacamole is great when you can reach the user's computer -- for spread
> out users, it gets a little more complicated. Setting up VPN tunnels
> for people would be pretty painful and hard to manage, require some
> central point, and wouldn't be super-fantastic. For an easy way to get
> reachability (and then you can use plain-ol'-VNC or set up Guacamole as
> a nice front end to it), I have been using ZeroTier, which
> pretty-painlessly connects users to a secured flat network. Most of
> their offering is Open Source. Give it a try on a computer or two and
> verify that it would do what you'd want it to, and then you can figure
> out some simple network rules (eg. don't let people tagged with "end
> user" talk to each other, maybe?) and roll it out. The installation is
> easy and generally it "just works."
>
Thanks for the tips. ZeroTier looks an interesting project to simulate
an local network.
What's about to open VNC automatically and to automatically create a
Guacamole access point to the computer? Are you doing all this steps
manually? We've more than hundred of users that could use the support
and most of them are blind or visual-impaired and doesn't know what VNC
means.
Best regards.
--
Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
Re: Alternative for TeamViewer via Guacamole
Posted by Chris Stave <ch...@voxmedia.com>.
Guacamole is great when you can reach the user's computer -- for spread out
users, it gets a little more complicated. Setting up VPN tunnels for
people would be pretty painful and hard to manage, require some central
point, and wouldn't be super-fantastic. For an easy way to get
reachability (and then you can use plain-ol'-VNC or set up Guacamole as a
nice front end to it), I have been using ZeroTier, which pretty-painlessly
connects users to a secured flat network. Most of their offering is Open
Source. Give it a try on a computer or two and verify that it would do
what you'd want it to, and then you can figure out some simple network
rules (eg. don't let people tagged with "end user" talk to each other,
maybe?) and roll it out. The installation is easy and generally it "just
works."
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Alex ARNAUD <al...@hypra.fr> wrote:
> Le 14/12/2017 à 17:20, brian mullan a écrit :
>
>> What kind of computers do they have.
>>
>
> We're using Debian 8 "Jessie".
>
>
> Best regards.
> --
> Alex ARNAUD
> Visual-Impairment Project Manager
> Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
>
--
Chris Stave | Network Engineer
(973)545-1628
85 Broad St., 15th floor | New York, NY 10004
<http://www.eater.com/> <http://www.eater.com/> <http://www.eater.com/>
<http://www.eater.com/> <http://www.eater.com/> <http://www.racked.com/>
<http://www.racked.com/> <http://www.eater.com/> <http://recode.net/>
<http://www.vox.com/> <http://www.vox.com/> <http://www.voxmedia.com/>
<http://www.voxmedia.com/> <http://www.voxmedia.com/>
Vox Media is The Verge <http://www.theverge.com/>, Vox <http://www.vox.com/>,
SB Nation <http://www.sbnation.com/>,
Polygon <http://www.polygon.com/>, Eater <http://www.eater.com/>, Racked
<http://www.racked.com/>, Curbed <http://www.curbed.com/>, and Recode
<http://www.recode.net/>.
*Recode 100 is LIVE <http://bit.ly/2l2yfeq>* – see our list of leaders who
won 2017.
Re: Alternative for TeamViewer via Guacamole
Posted by Alex ARNAUD <al...@hypra.fr>.
Le 14/12/2017 à 17:20, brian mullan a écrit :
> What kind of computers do they have.
We're using Debian 8 "Jessie".
Best regards.
--
Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
Re: Alternative for TeamViewer via Guacamole
Posted by brian mullan <bm...@gmail.com>.
What kind of computers do they have.
On Dec 14, 2017 11:09 AM, "Alex ARNAUD" <al...@hypra.fr> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm working at a company that helps visual-impaired, regular users and
> elderly people to access to the computer based on free and open-source
> software. We provide training and support for them.
>
> We need to be able to take control of their computer and we're searching
> for an alternative to TeamViewer.
>
> We would like to able to reproduce a similar procedure as TeamViewer does
> and to access the users computer from the Guacamole interface.
>
> I've searched a lot on the internet without to find solution and script
> that could help me to do that. I'm surprised that I have not found anything
> because I imagine other people or companies have the same requirement as we
> have.
>
> Are you aware of any solution or script that could help me to solve my
> issue?
>
> Best regards.
> --
> Alex ARNAUD
> Visual-Impairment Project Manager
> Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
>