View and Local Drive Access

[chrisbrooks]

Our view users connect with a company laptop and need access to the local drive on the laptop from the view vm. There is some discussion on scripting this drive mapping over PCoIP but I've yet to find a solution.

Are there any solutions that are currently being used that would work for this?

Thanks, Chris

[ebernard]

Chris,

You can find the script to access local drives here : http://communities.vmware.com/thread/268877

Don't forget to score if it resolve your issue !

Good luck

Emmanuel

[chrisbrooks]

Emmanuel,

I did see that thread but still can't get the drive to map. He says something about a registry change to get it to work with windows 7 but does not revel what it is.

Thanks,

Chris

From: Ebernard <communities-emailer@vmware.com>

To: <cbrooks@canarylabs.com>,

Date: 02/23/2012 06:26 PM

Subject: New message: "View and Local Drive Access"

[mittim12]

I think he is saying that you can utilize a script to look under Volatile Environment to get the name of the client connected and then map a drive to that client.   The Volatile Environment information is under HKU\Voatile Environment

[chrisbrooks]

Oh, ok cool. So we are trying to map a drive to the broker ip address harvested from the registry as per his script. There is something strange about that ip, it's not our ip. I have no idea who's it is. Should the IP not be our public ip for the view server? Are there any other ports that need to be open on the firewall for this to work other then the pcoip ports?

From: mittim12 <communities-emailer@vmware.com>

To: <cbrooks@canarylabs.com>,

Date: 02/24/2012 09:51 AM

Subject: New message: "View and Local Drive Access"

[mittim12]

This would be they entry named ViewClient_IP_Address which sould be the address of the connecting client.   Now this really only works if they are connecting from the LAN.

[chrisbrooks]

oh, I thought this was strange but figured there was a side tunnel action going on here. We only use view for outside users connecting from the internet. Is there a way for users to access local file storage when connected from the internet? Any work arounds people are using?

From: mittim12 <communities-emailer@vmware.com>

To: <cbrooks@canarylabs.com>,

Date: 02/24/2012 10:06 AM

Subject: New message: "View and Local Drive Access"

[mittim12]

Well PCOIP doesn't support drive redirection and the mapping of drives to the client was just a work around.  The only work around I can think of for outside clients is maybe a thumbdrive and USB redirection to give them the ability to copy back and forth.   It's not something I have ever had to worry about because it's against security policies for us.