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Configuring USB Redirection on a Mac Client
Administrators can congure the client system to specify which USB devices can be redirected to a remote
desktop.
You can congure USB policies for both View Agent or Horizon Agent, on the remote desktop, and
Horizon Client, on the local system, to achieve the following goals:
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Restrict the types of USB devices that Horizon Client makes available for redirection.
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Make View Agent or Horizon Agent prevent certain USB devices from being forwarded from a client
computer.
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Specify whether Horizon Client should split composite USB devices into separate components for
redirection.
Composite USB devices consist of a combination of two or more devices, such as a video input device
and a storage device.
Conguration seings on the client might be merged with or overridden by corresponding policies set for
View Agent or Horizon Agent on the remote desktop. For information about how USB seings on the client
work in conjunction with View Agent or Horizon Agent USB policies, see the topics about using policies to
control USB redirection, in the Conguring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7 document.
Using Rules From a Previous Horizon Client Release
In previous Horizon Client releases, you had to use sudo to congure USB ltering and spliing rules. You
can use the following procedure to move rules that use sudo to new rules that do not use sudo.
1 On the Mac client, open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and run the following
command:
sudo defaults export com.vmware.viewusb /tmp/usb.plist
2 Open a Terminal window (press command+N) and run the following command:
defaults import com.vmware.viewusb /tmp/usb.plist
3 In the rst Terminal window, run the following command:
sudo rm -rf /tmp/usb.plist
4 Close both Terminal windows.
You can now use defaults write com.vmware.viewusb property value to update the rules.
Syntax for Configuring USB Redirection
You can congure ltering and spliing rules to exclude or include USB devices from being redirected to a
remote desktop. On a Mac client, you congure USB functionality by using Terminal
(/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and running a command as root.
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To list the rules:
# defaults read domain
For example:
# defaults read com.vmware.viewusb
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To remove a rule:
# defaults delete domain property
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