Trying to setup access to a VM using Blast and VADC without going through a Connection Server

[KPNZ]

Unless I've misinterpreted this article it should be possible.

Admittedly step 'N' isn't particularly clear, but I'm assuming they meant place the contents of everything unzipped in a folder called "portal" on the root folder of IIS (C:\inetpub\wwwroot\portal\). In any case I've tried that and creating a virtual folder within IIS called 'portal' with the files at wwwroot both complain that MainUI.html doesn't exist (and it doesn't! But I also can't locate that file on a Connection or Security Server - which leads me to believe it is generated from one of the .json files)

Has anyone been able to pull this off? Any suggestions as to where I've gone wrong?

[KPNZ]

Bumping this back up because it'd be really good if this could be done.

[markbenson · Accepted solution]

You can do this by locating the file portal.war on the Connection Server and copying it to the View virtual desktop running VADC. The procedure is on page 18 in the VADC Admin Guide.

We will be making this procedure simpler by allowing this portal.war file to be downloadable via VMware-Horizon-View-HTML-Access-y.y.y-xxxxxx.zip  instead of first needing to install a Connection Server but for now just copy the portal.war file across and unzip it.

Mark

[KPNZ]

Thanks for that Mark, I was quietly hoping you'd pop by since it was one of your comments that got me trying this out!

So tried with v6 and hey presto it worked! Some things I found along the way:

I had to locate the 'portal.war' file by running the connection server installation and then locating the VMwareHTMLAccess64.msi in the user\appdata\local\temp\...\ dir... and then ran an msi extract on this to finally get to the portal.war file (the zip file will help immensely when it's released!).

And at least for Windows 8, the step regarding adding the MIME type wasn't possible until I deleted the existing entry for '.json'. This may have been the issue when I initially tried it on Windows 7 as its IIS allows you to add multiple MIME types. Win8 doesn't.

Also as a suggestion step 19 of page18 may be easier to interpret by rewording it to 'create a new folder under wwwroot called 'portal' and extract the items from portal.zip to this.' or something similar.

Cheers

[markbenson]

Thanks for the feedback and your suggestion.

Yes, we want to make this easier and so we'll allow the correct portal.war file to be downloadable directly via VMware-Horizon-View-HTML-Access-y.y.y-xxxxxx.zip so that you don't first have to install a Connection Server with HTML Access etc.

Anyway, I'm glad it's working for you.

Mark

[JimmyDean77]

Good evening, I was wondering if anyone has experienced an issue after logging in, then attempting to launch the desktop through html I receive an error unknown, but I am seeing this in the logs:

Some additional information from logs:

2021-02-08T12:45:19.817-05:00 ERROR (0494-079C) <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> [vmwrdspp] RdsppService::ValidateClientInfoParams(): Machine name, client IP address and broker IP address - all are NULL
2021-02-08T12:45:19.817-05:00 ERROR (0494-079C) <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> [vmwrdspp] RdsppService::StartSession(): Mandatory Client parameter check failed
2021-02-08T12:45:19.817-05:00 ERROR (0A30-0A6C) <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> [wsnm_desktop] Protocol provider reports a session start failure: Mandatory Client parameters not set
2021-02-08T12:45:19.817-05:00 ERROR (0A30-0A6C) <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> [wsnm_desktop] Session not chosen for BLAST connection
2021-02-08T12:45:19.817-05:00 DEBUG (0A30-0A6C) <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> [wsnm_desktop] Requested protocol for session is not available, user DESKTOP-CQRB2KH\Administrator
2021-02-08T12:45:19.817-05:00 DEBUG (0A30-0A6C) <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> [wsnm_desktop] session::pendingSessionDuplicateCount(): final duplicate count = 0
2021-02-08T12:45:19.817-05:00 DEBUG (0A30-0A6C) <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> [wsnm_desktop] SessionCounts: total=1, pen=0, con=0, dis=0, por=1, lgf=0
2021-02-08T12:45:19.817-05:00 DEBUG (0A30-0A6C) <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> [wsnm_desktop] Publish SESSION PENDING_EXPIRED
2021-02-08T12:45:19.817-05:00 DEBUG (0A30-0A6C) <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> [wsnm_desktop] No need to stop protocol, already cleared
2021-02-08T12:45:19.817-05:00 DEBUG (0A30-0A6C) <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> [wsnm_desktop] No need to stop protocol, already cleared
2021-02-08T12:45:19.817-05:00 DEBUG (0A30-0518) <MessageFrameWorkDispatch> [wsnm_desktop] DesktopManager got a SendEvent message (66)
2021-02-08T12:45:19.817-05:00 DEBUG (0A30-1BF4) <7156> [wsnm_xmlapi] StartSession refused with agent error 'AGENT_ERR_PROTOCOL_FAILURE', protocol error 'PROTOCOL_ERR_PROVIDER_FAILURE'
2021-02-08T12:45:19.817-05:00 INFO (0A30-1BF4) <7156> [wsnm_xmlapi] Processing set-user-global-preferences

[JimmyDean77]

Additionally, I realize this is an older thread ,and the version I am attempting to use is ver8/2012