Need Help!! Configure VMWare View Client with HP Thin Client

[buddaphunk]

Hi,

We've been using VMWare desktops with Citrix Xendesktop as a delivery system but for the past few days we've been toying with using VMWare View.

I have an HP t5740e Thin Client with VMWare View client 5.0 and I have the Thin Client in the domain and everything is set to auto-launch at start up and it works great: the user logs on to the Thin Client at the Ctl+Alt+Del screen and the VM client starts automatically and is set to logon as the logged in user and then eventually the user logs onto the VM.

Now the only issue is that when the user logs off their VM, they are left at the Thin Client desktop and then they would have to logoff again in order to get back to the Ctl+Alt+Del screen.

I've played with the settings on the View Client as well as the View Client GPO settings and there seems to be tons of great options to automate the log ON, but not the log OFF.

Any ideas?

**We don't use a "pooled" disk, each user has their own unique VM that they logon to and use as their personal desktop, don't know if that makes a difference.....

Thanks,

Scott

[EGarbuzov]

May be It's not a best way to do this, but you can autorun bat-file instead of View Client. Something like this:

start /wait /MIN /D "C:\Program files\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\" wswc.exe
shutdown /l

Add some keys (-serverURL, -userName, etc) in the end of first line.