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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
To connect a remote desktop or application, you must provide the name of a server and supply credentials
for your user account.
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 require a VPN connection to access remote desktops and
applications, verify that the client device is set up to use a VPN connection and turn on that connection.
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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 in Horizon Client,” on page 13.
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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 28.
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If end users are allowed to use the Microsoft RDP display protocol, verify that the client system has
Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac from Microsoft, version 2.0 or later. You can download this
client from the Microsoft Web site.
VMware Horizon Client for Mac Installation and Setup Guide
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