Looks very interesting, but i’m a bit surprised the most important feature isn’t mentioned: How well does clipboard sharing work?
Im not a big fan of Windows but copy pasting a file across 3 nested RDP sessions feels magical every time
To be honest, three nested RDPs sound like a terrible hack. In an ideal world, this would be two port forwardings and one RDP (thinking about ssh, which is still underrepresented in windows world). In an even more ideal world, this would be an IPv6 direct access ;-)
There are legit reasons, at least for two nested sessions. A production network that’s airgapped except for a bastion host that acts as a gateway. It’s better than port forwarding because you have to auth to the bastion host before the RDP chaining, and it often takes separate credentials for the second RDP session.
It’s a semi-common setup for higher security environments, and when you have a network of stuff that has known vulnerabilities you can’t patch for whatever reason. Traffic in and out is super carefully firewalled. It’s not great, but it’s better than a 25 year old MySQL with a direct public IP.
It's probably there not as a way to connect networks, but as a way to keep them separate, only allowing RDP between specific computers on different networks.
And desktop scaling. And multi-monitor support. And file transfers. And drive redirection. And peripheral redirection. And...
...A test suite, And security audits, And most importantly benchmarks.
What it does have is a license which it is GPLv3. So if anyone adds all those changes, they have to make the source code available with the same software license.
In this era tho, licenses (I don't agree with this, but this is what it is) are a matter of "tokens", I speak for a fact knowing multiple relatively-big companies just gobbling GPLv3 projects and rewriting them entirely, some do publish them as well.
Interesting from a technical perspective but with native RDP clients readily available on just about every platform, I don't see the need for it.
Browsers are sandboxes, your native client often isn't, there is definitely a huge advantage, portability and embeddability as well, it's also simpler to sniff traffic (and MITM it).
When it’s in a browser you don’t need to install anything on the local machine. I used to use Apache guacamole to access my machine at home from work when I was stuck in a cube all day.
Looks very interesting, but i’m a bit surprised the most important feature isn’t mentioned: How well does clipboard sharing work?
Im not a big fan of Windows but copy pasting a file across 3 nested RDP sessions feels magical every time
To be honest, three nested RDPs sound like a terrible hack. In an ideal world, this would be two port forwardings and one RDP (thinking about ssh, which is still underrepresented in windows world). In an even more ideal world, this would be an IPv6 direct access ;-)
There are legit reasons, at least for two nested sessions. A production network that’s airgapped except for a bastion host that acts as a gateway. It’s better than port forwarding because you have to auth to the bastion host before the RDP chaining, and it often takes separate credentials for the second RDP session.
It’s a semi-common setup for higher security environments, and when you have a network of stuff that has known vulnerabilities you can’t patch for whatever reason. Traffic in and out is super carefully firewalled. It’s not great, but it’s better than a 25 year old MySQL with a direct public IP.
It's probably there not as a way to connect networks, but as a way to keep them separate, only allowing RDP between specific computers on different networks.
And desktop scaling. And multi-monitor support. And file transfers. And drive redirection. And peripheral redirection. And...
...A test suite, And security audits, And most importantly benchmarks.
What it does have is a license which it is GPLv3. So if anyone adds all those changes, they have to make the source code available with the same software license.
In this era tho, licenses (I don't agree with this, but this is what it is) are a matter of "tokens", I speak for a fact knowing multiple relatively-big companies just gobbling GPLv3 projects and rewriting them entirely, some do publish them as well.
Interesting from a technical perspective but with native RDP clients readily available on just about every platform, I don't see the need for it.
Browsers are sandboxes, your native client often isn't, there is definitely a huge advantage, portability and embeddability as well, it's also simpler to sniff traffic (and MITM it).
When it’s in a browser you don’t need to install anything on the local machine. I used to use Apache guacamole to access my machine at home from work when I was stuck in a cube all day.
https://guacamole.apache.org/
Not many good MFA options for native RDP/RDG. Putting it in the browser lets you wrap the whole thing with OAUTH/passkeys etc
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