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Funny thing, I need to use an amazon workspace from time to time for my job. I've managed to keep 100% Linux (for my personal boxes) professionally and at home
by Diederich 10y ago
Funny thing, I need to use an amazon workspace from time to time for my job. I've managed to keep 100% Linux (for my personal boxes) professionally and at home for a good long time now, but a specific (and thankfully rare) access requirement was solved by using a Windows Amazon workspace.
Guess what? No Linux workspaces client.
So now to gain network access to a particular resource (a web address), I run the Windows workspaces client under Wine under Linux, which gives me access to a properly virtualized Windows workspace, which gives me access to a web address that is hosted on Linux.
It would be a comic tragedy except that it was so damn easy to make it work, and it works very well.
- Daviey 10y agoIt can be made to work under wine... or you can still use rdp.
- npongratz 10y agoThe Workspaces FAQ appears to disagree, but I'd be interested in learning if one can indeed use RDP. https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/faqs/#Clients_User_Experience https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/faqs/#Clients_User_Experie... "Q: Can I use any other client (e.g., an RDP client) with Amazon WorkSpaces? No. The only supported clients for WorkSpaces are the free clients provided by AWS."
- erstorreyk 10y ago"supported"
- Daviey 10y agoI did it.. So it does work :) If you use public IP addresses, just use that.. or leapfrog rdp through an ssh tunnel or VPN on a linux instance on the same VPC. Something like this, to tunnel through a linux instance: #!/bin/sh sshuttle -D -r ubuntu@linuxinstance-in-vpc 172.16.X.0/24 xfreerdp +clipboard /rfx /smart-sizing:800 /d:CORP /u:demo /v:172.16.X.X
- jeffbarr 10y agoAs I noted in the post, I run VirtualBox on Ubuntu on the client side.
- Spooky23 10y agoYou can also use a Teradici zero client or Android/iOS