Hello,
Does anyone have some suggestions on how to access local drives with the VMware View client using pcoip? Is there a way to pass the drives similar to the way the RDP protocol does it?
Thanks,
Jeremy
You might be able to work around it with some scripting. You can get the fat clients name from the "Volatile Environment" section of the registry on the VM, then from there you can map a drive with a logon script or such. Not ideal, but depending on your security requirements, pool type, and deployment size its a possibility.
I was about to post the same question. We are using fat clients and they connect in to our View connection servers using PCoIP. I need to know how to map the users (on the fat client) local hard drives (which are not USB) to the virtual desktop. Since our end-users are manipulating video on the virtual desktop using RDP is not an option. Someone please share this knowledge with the community.
Thank you,
Casey
From information gathered from both VMWare support and these forums, PCoIP currently does not support redirection of IDE/SATA devices. Only USB redirection is supported right now. I'm hearing that Teradici is currently working on enhancements that will provide this support in a future release of the PCoIP protocol, but how far in the future I'm not sure.
Mike... VM, Virtually!!
You might be able to work around it with some scripting. You can get the fat clients name from the "Volatile Environment" section of the registry on the VM, then from there you can map a drive with a logon script or such. Not ideal, but depending on your security requirements, pool type, and deployment size its a possibility.
You might be able to work around it with some scripting. You can get the fat clients name from the "Volatile Environment" section of the registry on the VM, then from there you can map a drive with a logon script or such. Not ideal, but depending on your security requirements, pool type, and deployment size its a possibility.
You're right. I was able to grab the fat client name from the HKCU\Volatile Environment registry key and map the drive. That should work just fine for us. Hopefully we'll see some type of IDE/SATA pass through feature in the near future for PCoIP.
Thanks for the help!
Jeremy, how did you do this? I'm in the same situation right now. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Hi,
I ended up using a logon script that reads the IP address from the registry. Here's the value I read:
ViewClient_Broker_Remote_IP_Address value under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment
Once I have the IP address I map a drive to it. I was able to do this pretty easy with Vista, but Windows 7 gave me some grief. I was able to get Windows 7 to work after adjusting a registry value.
I am using a KiX script to do this (could do with group policy with out much hassle). Here's a piece of my KiX script:
If InGroup("VMware View")
$IPAddress = ReadValue ("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment", "ViewClient_Broker_Remote_IP_Address")
If @ERROR = 0
Use I: "
" + $IPAddress + "\c$"
EndIf
I hope this points you in the right direction, if you need some more information let me know.
Thanks,
Jeremy
that is so cool. I'll give it a try. much thanks!
Hi JeremyV,
i tried to execute the script manually first at the command prompt in my virtual session (Windows7-64bits)- horizon view 6, i got this error message :
error : error in USE statement
Script : P:\kix\local.kix
Line : 6
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
local.kix script :
If InGroup("GDP-TeletravailVMView-AME01")
$IPAddress = ReadValue ("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment", "ViewClient_Broker_Remote_IP_Address")
If @ERROR = 0
Use O: "
" + $IPAddress + "\c$"
EndIf
what is wrong with this ????
many thanks