Single Sign On - Physical and Virtual Desktops

[RafaNovo]

Hi,

Today, the users has to perform 2 logons: one to the physical Desktop (XP) and other in the View Client 3. (view client automatically sign on the user in the Virtual Desktop).

There is any way to automatically sign on the user in View Client, using the username and password of the physical desktop?

Regards,

Rafael

[jbruelasdgo]

take a look to these thread:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/131002

Jose

[jbruelasdgo]

take a look to these thread:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/131002

Jose

[asherman]

I am trying to find an answer to this as well. Using re-purposed machines, a user has to login to the physical box first, then clicks on the View Client, and has to provide credentials again. From there, they connect to their virtual desktop, without having to provide credentials, because the GINA is working.

but how to achieve single sign-on from the very beginning? Surely there is some way the View Client can look at environment variables?

Right now, my workaround is to have the physical machine auto-login to a local account, and then for that local account I have the shell replaced to the View Client. The user puts in their credentials from there and doesn't know the difference. This works, but if the user decides to lock their machine (windows key + L), then they have to unlock the machine with the generic local account password....not ideal at all.

[Leostream]

Hello,

I'm not positive if you can accomplish this with View. Depending on how urgently you need this feature, you could look at the Leostream solution. It requires the Leostream Connection Broker, but then allows you to use the Leostream Connect client to provide the single sign-on feature you are looking for.

When you install Leostream Connect on your Windows desktops, select the "Enable Single sign-on" and "Enable Run as Shell mode" tasks. The "single sign-on" feature instructs Leostream Connect to use the credentials entered into the Windows Login of the physical desktop. In "shell mode", when the user logs into the physical desktop, Leostream Connect runs instead of the Windows Explorer. Combine these two features and you see the following behavior:

1. The user enters their credentials into the physical desktop's Windows login prompt.

2. Because Leostream Connect is in shell mode and using client-side single sign-on, after the user logs in to the physical desktop, Leostream Connect automatically starts up (without presenting another login dialog), grabs the user's credentials from the Windows login, and passes those on to the Leostream Connection Broker.

3. If the user's policy in the Leostream Connection Broker offers them a single desktop, Leostream Connect automatically launches the remote session and signs the user into the remote desktop.

Ta da! Enter credentials once, and go straight through!

Just some food for thought. With Leostream, you can continue using your existing VMware infrastructure, but would have to swap out View.

Good luck,

Karen