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Share Access to Local Folders and Drives with Client
Drive Redirection
You can use Horizon Client to share folders and drives on the local client system with remote desktops
and applications. This feature is called client drive redirection.
Drives can include mapped drives and USB storage devices. Mapped drives can have UNC (Universal
Naming Convention) paths.
In a Windows remote desktop, shared folders and drives appear in the This PC folder or in the Computer
folder, depending on the Windows operating system version. In a published application, such as Notepad,
you can browse to and open a file in a shared folder or drive.
You do not need to be connected to a remote desktop or application to configure client drive redirection
settings. The settings apply to all remote desktops and applications. That is, you cannot configure the
settings so that local client folders are shared with one remote desktop or application, but not with other
remote desktops or applications.
You can also turn on the ability to open local files with published applications directly from the local file
system. When you right-click a local file, the Open with menu also lists the available published
applications. You can also set files to be opened automatically with published applications when you
double-click the file. When you enable this feature, all files on your local file system that have certain file
extensions are registered with the server that you are logged in to. For example, if Microsoft Word is one
of the published applications available from the server, you can right-click a .docx file on your local file
system and open the file with the remote MS Word application. This feature requires Horizon 6.2 or later
servers and agents.
Prerequisites
To share folders and drives with a remote desktop or application, a Horizon administrator must have
enabled the client drive redirection feature.
An administrator can hide the client drive redirection feature in Horizon Client.
Procedure
1 Open the Settings dialog box with the Sharing panel displayed.
Option Description
From the desktop and application
selection window
Right-click a desktop or application icon, select Settings, and select Sharing in
the left panel of the window that appears.
From the Sharing dialog box that
appears when you connect to a
desktop or application
Click the Settings > Sharing link in the dialog box.
From within a desktop OS Select Options > Share Folders from the menu bar.
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