Installation and Setup Guide

Omiing any of these conguration seings is not supported for kiosk mode. If View Connection Server is
set up to require a non-default kiosk user name, you must also set the view.defaultUser property or use
the -u or --userName= command-line option. If a non-default user name is not required and you do not
specify a user name, Horizon Client can derive and use the default kiosk user name.
N If you set the view.sslVerificationMode conguration key, be sure to set it in
the /etc/vmware/view-mandatory-config le. When the client runs in kiosk mode, the client does not look in
the view-preferences le.
The command shown in this example runs Horizon Client on a Linux client system and has the following
characteristics:
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The user account name is based on the client's MAC address.
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Horizon Client runs in full screen mode without a Horizon Client menu bar.
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Users are automatically connected to the specied View Connection Server instance and View desktop
and are not prompted for login credentials.
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If a connection error occurs, depending on the error code returned, a script might run or a kiosk
monitoring program might handle the error. As a result, for example, the client system might display an
out-of-order screen or might wait a certain amount of time before aempting to connect to View
Connection Server again.
./vmware-view --kioskLogin --nonInteractive --once --fullscreen --nomenubar
--serverURL="server.mycomany.com" --userName="CM-00:11:22:33:44:55:66:77" --password="mypassword"
I If a pre-login message has been congured to appear before allowing Horizon Client to
connect to a View desktop, the user must acknowledge the message before being allowed to access the
desktop. To avoid this issue, use View Administrator to disable pre-login messages.
Using URIs to Configure Horizon Client
Using uniform resource identiers (URIs), you can create a Web page or an email with links that end users
click to start Horizon Client, connect to a server, and open a specic desktop or application with specic
conguration options.
You can simplify the process of connecting to a remote desktop or application by creating Web or email links
for end users. You create these links by constructing URIs that provide some or all the following
information, so that your end users do not need to supply it:
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Connection Server address
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Port number for Connection Server
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Active Directory user name
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Domain name
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Desktop or application display name
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Window size
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Actions including reset, log out, and start session
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Display protocol
To construct a URI, you use the vmware-view URI scheme with Horizon Client specic path and query parts.
N You can use URIs to start Horizon Client only if the client software is already installed on client
computers.
VMware Horizon Client for Linux Installation and Setup Guide
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