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While this isn’t required for what I’m doing. It would be pretty cool to achieve. Right now I can access my computer running Ubuntu Server remotely from any Windows PC via Xrdp.

I want to take this a step further by instead of having the client connect via the normal Remote Desktop app in Windows, I want to be able to connect through the web browser.

I know this is possible if the server is running Windows, but since this is a special case, is this possible?

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Apache Guacamole is a free and open-source client-less remote desktop gateway that supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. It requires no plugins or client software; simply use an HTML5 web application such as a web browser.

There are a handful of other products that support browser access for a price too, like Zoho Assist, ThinLinc, Remote Access Plus, or even Microsoft's own RDS web client.

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  • This is exactly what I was looking for. I saw Microsoft had one, but my server will be running linux, so that one is not exactly optimal
    – Anston Sorensen
    Oct 10 at 3:26
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AFAIK there is no open source HTTP to RDP gateway. OTOH noVNC is very effective as a HTTP to VNC gateway (I used this along with rdesktop to provide remote access to RDP desvices).

Do beware - there THOUSANDS of articles on the index about how to share a Linux session over VNC - the documentation for running a multi-head server is much more rare (and Google doesn't understand the difference).

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  • Your answer was good too, but the first one was the closest to what I wanted, so I will mark it as the answer
    – Anston Sorensen
    Oct 10 at 3:21
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You could try to use azure bastion if you have access to azure. Azure bastion is a PaaS service for remotely accessing servers using ssh or rdp. So no need to maintain the os and setup and configure a server

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  • While that is cool, I would rather not rely on cloud services. I‘m that guy that would setup everything myself
    – Anston Sorensen
    Oct 10 at 3:24
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Have you tried Chrome Remote Desktop? https://remotedesktop.google.com/

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  • I would like it to be through rdp so it can be through any web browser
    – Anston Sorensen
    Oct 10 at 3:22

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