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📣 rcarmo

Modern alternatives to Guacamole as RDP gateway?


I’ve had a long history with RDP (https://taoofmac.com/space/protocols/rdp) and use it extensively on Linux with the new GPU-accelerated xrdp builds, but I have been looking for a modern replacement to Apache Guacamole that can work as a direct web-to-RDP bastion without requiring a database container, Java or a lot of overhead, and all I can find are 3-4 year old Rust/WASM projects in various states of abandonment.

Is there anything like that in active development? I know people will suggest KasmVNC, but that isn’t really what I am looking for (and the wire protocol isn’t as efficient as RDP).


  👤 bkovacev Accepted Answer ✓
I'm unsure how have you not stumbled upon RustDesk[0].

[0] - https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk


👤 sandreas
There is TRMM (tactical remote management).

https://docs.tacticalrmm.com/

But it's hard to setup and pretty huge.


👤 szszrk
Can you elaborate on what's exactly wrong with Guacamole in your scenario?