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Share Access to Local Folders and Drives
You can congure Horizon Client to share folders and drives on your local system with remote desktops
and applications. Drives can include mapped drives and USB storage devices. This feature is called client
drive redirection.
In a Windows remote desktop, shared folders and drives appear in the Devices and drives section in the
This PC folder, or in the Other section in the Computer folder, depending on the Windows operating
system version. In a remote application, such as Notepad, you can browse to and open a le in a shared
folder or drive. The folders and drives you select for sharing appear in the le system as network drives that
use the naming format name on MACHINE-NAME.
You do not need to be connected to a remote desktop or application to congure client drive redirection
seings. The seings apply to all your remote desktops and applications. That is, you cannot congure the
seings so that local client folders are shared with one remote desktop or application but not with other
remote desktops or applications.
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 Conguring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7
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.
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