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To specify options to forward to the xfreerdp program, use the appropriate command-line option or
conguration key, and specify the FreeRDP options.
Command-line option:
--xfreerdpOptions
Conguration key:
view.xfreerdpOptions
For more information about using the vmware-view command-line interface and conguration les, see
“Using the Horizon Client Command-Line Interface and Conguration Files,” on page 28.
Syntax for Network Level Authentication
Many conguration options for the rdesktop program are the same as for the xfreerdp program. One
important dierence is that xfreerdp supports network-level authentication (NLA). NLA is turned o by
default. You must use the following command-line option to turn on network-level authentication:
--enableNla
Also, you must add the /cert-ignore option so that the certicate verication process can succeed.
Following is an example of the correct syntax:
vmware-view --enableNla --rdpclient=xfreerdp --xfreerdpOptions="/p:password /cert-ignore /u:user-
name /d:domain-name /v:server"
If the password contains any special characters, escape the special characters (for example: \$).
Syntax Specific to Using FreeRDP with Horizon Client
Keep the following guidelines in mind:
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You must escape special characters that you might normally place in quotation marks. For example, the
following command does not work because the special character $ in pa$$word is not escaped:
(incorrect) vmware-view --rdpclient=xfreerdp --xfreerdpOptions="/p:'pa$
$word' /u:'crt\administrator'"
Instead, you must use:
(correct) vmware-view --rdpclient=xfreerdp --
xfreerdpOptions="/p:'pa\$\$word' /u:'crt\administrator'"
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If end users will use a session-in-session implementation of Horizon Client, you must use the /rfx
option. An example of a session-in-session implementation is one in which an end user logs in to
Horizon Client on a thin client, so that the Horizon Client interface is the only one the end user sees,
and the end user then launches a nested version of Horizon Client in order to use a remote application
provided by an RDS host. In cases like this, if you do not use the /rfx option, the end user will not be
able to see the remote desktop and application icons in the desktop and application selector of the
nested client.
Install and Configure FreeRDP
To use a FreeRDP client for RDP connections to View desktops, your Linux machine must include the
required version of FreeRDP.
For a list of the packages that xfreerdp depends on in Ubuntu, go to
hps://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/wiki/Compilation.
Prerequisites
On your Linux client machine, download FreeRDP 1.1 from GitHub, at
hps://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP.
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