To normally access say two Raspberry Pi’s, maybe a remote virtual private server, a media machine in the sitting room, etc you’d probably use SSH from a terminal, as well as say a VNC Viewer, and maybe more applications. And you’d have to do that from the admin machine you’ve set it all up on.
With Apache Guacamole gateway setup, you’d just use your browser to log in to Apache Guacamole, and from there click on which machine you’d like to access remotely, whether by SSH, VNC, or RDP. The effort is done once to set up the configurations, but after that you can access via the gateway from any location, or even grant others access. So you are not tied to one admin machine that has all your remote access applications configured (big bonus if you are remote or travelling, as you just need a browser to access Apache Guacamole).
See https://guacamole.apache.org/
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Very interested to see what folks have to say about this project. Found this several times when trying to find a simple and easy remote access solution after jumping through many hoops with Team Viewer and later Any Desk in places where TV was specifically not allowed.
I’m running a docker container that contains calibre ebook manager and exposes it via guacamole. It works well - a desktop app becomes available on my network, from any computer at home.
I haven’t tried this yet. I did try Remotely, which is also FOSS. Remotely has an agent involved that can be installed on machines. Unfortunately it doesn’t support Wayland though. Which made it a non-starter for me since literally all my machines run either headless or Wayland.