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Syntax for Network Level Authentication

Many configuration options for the rdesktop program are the same as for the xfreerdp program. One

important difference is that xfreerdp supports network-level authentication (NLA). NLA is turned off by

default. You must use the following command-line option to turn on network-level authentication:

--enableNla

Also, you must add the /cert-ignore option so that the certificate verification process can succeed.

Following is an example of the correct syntax:

vmware-view --enableNla --rdpclient=xfreerdp --xfreerdpOptions="/p:password /cert-ignore /u:user-

name /d:domain-name /v:server"

If the password contains any special characters, escape the special characters (for example: \$).

Syntax Specific to Using FreeRDP with Horizon Client

Keep the following guidelines in mind:

You must escape special characters that you might normally place in quotation marks. For example, the

following command does not work because the special character $ in pa$$word is not escaped:

(incorrect) vmware-view --rdpclient=xfreerdp --xfreerdpOptions="/p:'pa$

$word' /u:'crt\administrator'"

Instead, you must use:

(correct) vmware-view --rdpclient=xfreerdp --

xfreerdpOptions="/p:'pa\$\$word' /u:'crt\administrator'"

If end users will use a session-in-session implementation of Horizon Client, you must use the /rfx

option. An example of a session-in-session implementation is one in which an end user logs in to

Horizon Client on a thin client, so that the Horizon Client interface is the only one the end user sees,

and the end user then launches a nested version of Horizon Client in order to use a remote application

provided by an RDS host. In cases like this, if you do not use the /rfx option, the end user will not be

able to see the remote desktop and application icons in the desktop and application selector of the

nested client.

Install and Configure FreeRDP

To use a FreeRDP client for RDP connections to View desktops, your Linux machine must include the

required version of FreeRDP.

For a list of the packages that xfreerdp depends on in Ubuntu, go to

https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/wiki/Compilation.

Prerequisites

On your Linux client machine, download FreeRDP 1.1 from GitHub, at

https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP.

Procedure

1 Patch with the file called freerdp-1.1.0.patch, using following patch commands:

cd /client-installation-directory/patches/FreeRDP-stable-1.1

patch -p1 < freerdp-1.1.0.patch

Using VMware Horizon Client for Linux

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