Specifications
Table Of Contents
- View Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- Installing and Running View Client and View Portal
- Client Connections from the Internet
- Creating SSL Server Certificates
- Using Existing SSL Certificates
- Smart Card Authentication
- RSA SecurID Authentication
- View Client Command Line Options
- Virtual Printing
- Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction
- Client Computer Information
- Using PCoIP Display Protocol
- Using HP RGS Display Protocol
- View Composer
- Overview of View Composer
- Preparing vCenter Server for View Composer
- Preparing a Parent VM
- Deploying Linked Clone Desktops from View Manager
- Refreshing, Recomposing, and Rebalancing Linked Clone Desktops
- Using an Existing View Composer Database
- Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix: The locked.properties File
- Glossary
- Index
View Manager Administration Guide
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Checkthelogfilesin<drive>:/DocumentsandSettings/All
Users/Application Data/VMware/VDM/logsontheViewConnectionServeror
securityserverhostformessagesstatingthatsmartcardauthenticationisenabled.
Configuring a Standard or Replica Server
Asecurityserverthathasbeenconfiguredtousesmartcardauthenticationwill
automaticallyrequiretheusertoauthenticateusingtheircardandPINduringlogin.
Standardandreplicaserverscanbeconfiguredtoaccommodateseveraldifferentsmart
cardauthenticationscenarios.
To set the smart card authentication setting on a standard or replica server
1FromwithintheViewAdministrator,clicktheConfigurationbutton.
2Under
ViewServersselectaViewConnectionServerentryandclickEdit.
3FromtheSmartcardauthenticationdrop‐downmenu,selectoneofthefollowing:
Notallowed—Smartcardauthenticationisdisabled.
Optional—Usersmayusesmartcardauthenticationtoconnect,butpassword
authenticationisalsoper mitte d.Failuretoauthenticateusingasmartcard
authenticationwillrequirethatpasswordauthenticationisusedinstead.
Required—Usersmayonlyconnectusingsmartcardauthentication.
Whensmartcardauthenticationisrequired,authenticationfailsforuserswho
selecttheLoginascurrentusercheckboxwhenconnectingtotheView
ConnectionServerinstance.Theseusersmustreauthenticatewiththeirsmart
cardandPINwhentheylogin
toaViewdesktop.
4Configurethesmartcardremovalpolicy.
SelecttheDisconnectusersessionsonsmartcardremovalcheckboxtocause
userstobedisconnectedfromtheViewConnectionServerinstancewhenthey
removetheirsmartcards.Usersmustthenreauthenticatetogainaccessto
theirViewdesktops.
DeselecttheDisconnectusersessionsonsmartcardremovalcheckboxto
allowuserstoremainconnectedtotheViewConnectionServerinstancewhen
theyremovetheirsmartcards.UserscanstartnewViewdesktopsessions
withoutreauthenticating.
N
OTEYoucannotconfigurethesmartcardremovalpolicywhensmartcard
authenticationissettoNotAllowed.