On 10/28/22 10:00, Liam Proven wrote:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 at 18:52, Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@sweet-haven.com> wrote:
then run Win-10 in VirtualBox to connect to a virtual Win-10 instance (Citrix) in AWS somewhere Can't you connect to the remote instance using Remmina or some other Linux MS RDP client?
It's about 10Y ago now but I worked at a company that used remote desktops for everything. I used my laptop with Ubuntu at first, until my local thin client was fully updated. Nobody knew. As I was connected to a full-screen Windows VM in a datacentre somewhere, once I'd logged in, my Linux laptop looked just like a Windows machine unless you looked at the mouse pointer very closely.
There are lots: Remmina, XRDP, rdesktop, Vinagre, and more.
Thanks for the pointers! But my situation is rather restrictive. The only way into my enclave is through Amazon Win-10 virtual machines, and the only way to connect to them is by using Citrix Workspace, which isn't available for Linux. Citrix has a browser-based thing called Receiver that would work, but access requires two-factor smartcards, which isn't compatible with a Linux browser running Receiver. So I need to be running on Windows to connect to virtual AWS Windows to allow me to run rdp to get to my Linux hosts. It's amazing that it works at all. Regards, Lew