Ditching RealVNC’s Login Wall: Self-Hosting Apache Guacamole as an Address-Book Remote Access Tool
5 minRealVNC started requiring an account just to use its viewer, so I went looking for a self-hosted alternative with the same address-book workflow. This post covers deploying Apache Guacamole with Docker Compose and PostgreSQL, fixing the password-mismatch error that trips up fresh installs, putting it behind a reverse proxy with WebSockets, and organizing saved VNC, RDP and SSH connections into groups.