4.6

Check Out a Desktop After Manually Copying the Base Image
After you manually copy the base image to the client computer and set permissions on the package files, you
must direct the user to check out a desktop.
Prerequisites
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Verify that View Client with Local Mode is installed on the client computer.
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Verify that you set permissions to use the package files that were copied to the client computer. See “Set
Permissions to Allow View to Use the Copied Package Files,” on page 253.
Procedure
1 On the client computer, start Vmware View Client, connect to View Connection Server, log in to View
Connection Server, and select a desktop pool.
2 Click the down-arrow button next to the desktop pool and click Check out.
3 (Optional) If you copied the package files to a custom directory, configure View Client to check out the
desktop into the custom directory.
a In the Check Out dialog, click Options.
b Next to Check-out directory, click Browse and select the directory that contains the pool-name folder.
Do not select the pool-name folder itself.
For example, if you copied package files for a pool with a display name LocalPool into a directory
named C:\CheckOutDirectory\LocalPool, select the C:\CheckOutDirectory directory.
c Click OK.
4 In the Check-out dialog, click OK.
View Manager checks out the desktop. View Transfer Server detects that the base-image files reside on the
client computer and downloads only the remaining desktop files. These files include the OS disk and a
persistent disk, if one is configured.
Troubleshooting View Transfer Server and Local Desktop Operations
Troubleshooting tips are available for common View Transfer Server and local desktop operations.
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Check-Out Fails with "No Available Transfer Server" Error on page 255
When users try to check out desktops, the operations fail and an error message, No available Transfer
Server, is displayed.
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Problems with Desktop Check-Outs After Initial Check-Out on page 256
Assuming that View Transfer Server is functioning properly, you might find that check-out problems
are due to View Connection Server no longer having the encryption key for files on the local machine.
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Login Window Takes a Long Time to Appear on page 257
Under certain circumstances, after you open View Client and specify a View Connection Server instance,
the login window does not appear for 30 or more seconds.
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View Transfer Server Remains in a Pending State on page 257
View Transfer Server is unavailable while it remains in a Pending state for an excessively long time. For
example, the Pending state might last longer than ten minutes.
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View Transfer Server Fails to Enter Maintenance Mode on page 258
When you attempt to place View Transfer Server in maintenance mode, it remains in the Maintenance
mode pending state for an excessively long time.
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