RD Gateway in xrdp - neutrinordp-any status?

[jpmorrison]

I want to easily connect to multiple remote windows hosts through a single tcp port

Can xrdp be made into an RD Gateway server - on its own or with some help with haproxy or nginx?

neutrinordp-any would work too but binaries aren't in Ubuntu. I tried building with libgstreamer1.0-dev in Ubuntu 20.04 but it won't link - lots of undefined references in libfreerdp. Build instructions are pretty old. Is is neutrinordp-any still maintained?

Freerdp2 is newer/maintained - can libfreerdp-client or server be made to work instead?

SSH port forwarding is clunky, I'd need a different port for each host.
The best I've come up with is freerdp which can use an http proxy or socks port

RDPGW looked promising but doesn't wort at all for me and adds an oauth layer I don't need.

[matt335672]

Hi @jpmorrison

I can't answer a lot of your questions - we're busy getting a release put together than the moment.

Yes - neutrinordp is still maintained. I've managed to reproduce your build issue on 20.04. I fixed it, at least as far as linking goes by editing include/freerdp/api.h and replacing this line:-

#define INLINE  inline

with:-

#define INLINE  /* inline */

I appreciate this isn't a fix and I haven't even tested it, but it might let you get a bit further in your investigations. We'll get a fix for this sorted out in the new year.

[jpmorrison]

Thanks. I was able to build and install NeutrinoRDP with a similar workaround (neutrinolabs/NeutrinoRDP#24 (comment))

I was able to rebuild xrdp-0.9.12 from the source deb/debuild with --enable-neutrinordp added

I setup the rdp proxy with libxrdpneutrinordp.so and connected sucessfully

The RDP connection with libxrdpneutrinordp.so has graphics issues with the mouse cursor - black mouse pointer with a black square behind it but it's otherwise functional.

Will leave this for now if you're in the middle of a release.

[matt335672]

I've submitted a PR to NeutrinoRDP (awaiting approval) which fixes the compilation issue on gcc 5 and later. It now builds OK for me on 20.04. I wouldn't have thought it would affect your mouse pointer issue but I though I'd let you know.

[matt335672]

Duplicate of #1333