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You can turn on the ability to open local les with remote applications directly from your local le system. If
you select a local le and press Control-click, the Open With menu lists the available remote applications.
You can also open a local le by dragging and dropping it to the remote application window or Dock icon. If
you set a remote application as the default application for les that have a certain le extension, all les on
your local le system that have that le extension are registered with the server to which you are logged in.
You can also turn on the ability to run remote applications from the Applications folder.
N You cannot open a le with a remote application if the lename contains characters that are invalid in
the Windows le system. For example, you cannot open Notepad and open a le named test2<.txt.
Conguring the browser on the client system to use a proxy server can cause poor client drive redirection
performance if the secure tunnel is enabled on the Connection Server instance. For the best client drive
redirection performance, congure the browser not to use a proxy server or automatically detect LAN
seings.
Prerequisites
To share folders and drives with a remote desktop or application, you must enable the client drive
redirection feature. This task includes installing View Agent 6.1.1 or later, or Horizon Agent 7.0 or later, and
enabling the agent Client Drive Redirection option. It can also include seing policies to control client drive
redirection behavior. For more information, see the Seing Up Desktop and Application Pools in View
document.
Procedure
1 Open the Preferences dialog box with the Sharing panel displayed.
Option Description
From the desktop and application
selection window
Select VMware Horizon Client > Preferences and click Sharing.
From the Sharing dialog box that
appears when you connect to a
desktop or application
Click the Preferences > Sharing link in the dialog box.
From within a desktop OS
Select VMware Horizon Client > Preferences from the menu bar and click
Sharing.
2 Congure the client drive redirection seings.
Option Action
Share a specific folder or drive with
remote desktops and applications
Click the plus (+) buon, browse to and select the folder or drive to share,
and click Add.
N You cannot share a folder on a USB device if the device is already
connected to a remote desktop or application with the USB redirection
feature.
Stop sharing a specific folder or
drive
Select the folder or drive in the Folder list and click the minus (-) buon.
Allow remote desktops and
applications access to files in your
home directory
Select the Allow access to home-directory check box.
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