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Conguration seings on the client might be merged with or overridden by corresponding policies set for
View Agent or Horizon Agent on the remote desktop. For information about how USB seings on the client
work in conjunction with View Agent or Horizon Agent USB policies, see the topics about using policies to
control USB redirection, in the Seing Up Desktop and Application Pools in View document.
Syntax for Configuring USB Redirection
You can congure ltering and spliing rules to exclude or include USB devices from being redirected to a
remote desktop. On a Mac client, you congure USB functionality by using Terminal
(/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and running a command as root.
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To list the rules:
# sudo defaults read domain
For example:
# sudo defaults read com.vmware.viewusb
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To remove a rule:
# sudo defaults delete domain property
For example:
# sudo defaults delete com.vmware.viewusb ExcludeVidPid
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To set or replace a lter rule:
# sudo defaults write domain property value
For example:
# sudo defaults write com.vmware.viewusb ExcludeVidPid vid-1234_pid-5678
I Some conguration parameters require the VID (vendor ID) and PID (product ID) for a
USB device. To nd the VID and PID, you can search on the Internet for the product name combined
with vid and pid. Alternatively, you can look in the USB Log le after you plug in the USB device to the
local system when Horizon Client is running. For more information, see “Turn on Logging for USB
Redirection,” on page 53.
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To set or replace a spliing rule for a composite device:
# sudo defaults write domain property value
For example:
# sudo defaults write com.vmware.viewusb AllowAutoDeviceSplitting true
# sudo defaults write com.vmware.viewusb SplitExcludeVidPid vid-03f0_Pid-2a12
# sudo defaults write com.vmware.viewusb SplitVidPid "'vid-0911_Pid-149a(exintf:03)'"
# sudo defaults write com.vmware.viewusb IncludeVidPid vid-0911_Pid-149a
Composite USB devices consist of a combination of two or more devices, such as a video input device
and a storage device. The rst line in this example turns on automatic spliing of composite devices.
The second line excludes the specied composite USB device (Vid-03f0_Pid-2a12) from spliing.
The third line tells Horizon Client to treat the components of a dierent composite device
(Vid-0911_Pid-149a) as separate devices but to exclude the following component from being redirected:
the component whose interface number is 03. This component is kept local.
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