User manual

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Verify that you can log in as an administrator on the client system.
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If you plan to use the RDP display protocol to connect to a remote desktop, verify that the Mac client
system has Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac from Microsoft, version 2.0 or later installed.
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Verify that you have the URL for a download page that contains the Horizon Client installer. This URL
might be the VMware Downloads page at hp://www.vmware.com/go/viewclients, or it might be the
URL for a Connection Server instance.
Procedure
1 From your Mac, browse to the URL for downloading the Horizon Client installer le.
The le name format is VMware-Horizon-Client-y.y.y-xxxxxx.dmg. xxxxxx is the build number and y.y.y
is the version number.
2 Double-click the .dmg le to open it and click Agree.
The contents of the disk image appear in a Horizon Client Finder window.
3 In the Finder window, drag the VMware Horizon Client icon to the Applications folder icon.
If you are not logged in as an administrator user, you are prompted for an administrator user name and
password.
What to do next
Start Horizon Client and verify that you can connect to a remote desktop or application. See “Connect to a
Remote Desktop or Application,” on page 26.
Add Horizon Client to Your Dock
You can add Horizon Client to your Dock just as you do with any other application.
Procedure
1 In the Applications folder, select VMware Horizon Client.
2 Drag the VMware Horizon Client icon to the Dock.
3 To congure the Dock icon to open Horizon Client at login or to show the icon in the Finder, right-click
the icon on the Dock, select Options, and select the appropriate command from the context menu.
When you quit Horizon Client, the application shortcut remains in the Dock.
Configuring Certificate Checking for End Users
Administrators can congure the certicate verication mode so that, for example, full verication is always
performed.
Certicate checking occurs for SSL connections between Connection Server and Horizon Client.
Administrators can congure the verication mode to use one of the following strategies:
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End users are allowed to choose the verication mode. The rest of this list describes the three
verication modes.
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(No verication) No certicate checks are performed.
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(Warn) End users are warned if a self-signed certicate is being presented by the server. Users can
choose whether or not to allow this type of connection.
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(Full security) Full verication is performed and connections that do not pass full verication are
rejected.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Mac OS X
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