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Configure Horizon Client to Select a Smart Card Certificate
You can congure Horizon Client to select a local certicate or the certicate on a smart card when you
authenticate to a server by seing a preference. If this preference is not set (the default), you must manually
select a certicate.
Prerequisites
For this seing to take eect, smart card authentication must be congured on the server and only one
certicate must be available on your client system or smart card. If you have multiple certicates,
Horizon Client always prompts you to select a certicate, regardless of how this preference is set.
Procedure
1 Before you connect to a server, select VMware Horizon Client > Preferences from the menu bar.
2 Click General in the Preferences dialog box.
3 Select Automatically select .
4 Close the Preferences dialog box.
Your changes take eect when the dialog box is closed.
Connect to a Remote Desktop or Application
After you connect to a server, you can open the remote desktops and applications that you are authorized to
use.
Before you have end users access remote desktops and applications, test that you can connect to a remote
desktop or application from the client system.
Prerequisites
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Obtain login credentials, such as a user name and password, RSA SecurID user name and passcode,
RADIUS authentication user name and passcode, or smart card personal identication number (PIN).
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Obtain the NETBIOS domain name for logging in. For example, you might use mycompany rather than
mycompany.com.
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Perform the administrative tasks described in “Preparing Connection Server for Horizon Client,” on
page 11.
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If you are outside the corporate network and are not using a security server to access the remote
desktop or application, verify that your client device is set up to use a VPN connection and turn on that
connection.
I In most cases, use a security server rather than a VPN.
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Verify that you have the fully qualied domain name (FQDN) of the server that provides access to the
remote desktop or application. Underscores (_) are not supported in server names. If the port is not 443,
you also need the port number.
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If you plan to use the RDP display protocol to connect to a remote desktop, verify that the
AllowDirectRDP agent group policy seing is enabled.
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Congure the certicate checking mode for the SSL certicate that the server presents. See “Seing the
Certicate Checking Mode for Horizon Client,” on page 26.
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If you are using smart card authentication, congure Horizon Client to automatically use a local
certicate or the certicate on your smart card. See “Congure Horizon Client to Select a Smart Card
Certicate,” on page 27.
Chapter 3 Managing Remote Desktop and Application Connections
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