Username Remains

[N74jrw]

Hi,

Is there a way to get rid of the last user's username from the connection dialog? The View client is installed on public machines here and each time a user logs in, they have to delete the previous user's name. It's annoying. There's a registry setting to do this in Windows, but I can't find anything in the Mac preferences.

Thanks

[yuleyl · Accepted solution]

You can do it with command line with latest Mac client 3.2 build.

Run below commands as current user viaTerminal.app:

defaults delete com.vmware.horizon "https://<server>:<port>/broker/xmlusername"

defaults write com.vmware.horizon "$(defaults read com.vmware.horizon "https://<server>:<port>/broker/xml")" -dict "username" ""

Thanks.

[N74jrw]

This is great stuff! Where did you find it? What port should I use? I have all of the defaults running.

Thanks

[yuleyl]

The preference file is saved in /Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/com.vmware.horizon.plist

The default port for the View Connection Server is 443.

[hansiecox]

Is there anyway to get rid of the last username in when running the client in windows?

Thanks

[yuleyl]

For latest version of Windows client, the last user info will be saved in "%AppData%\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\prefs.txt", you can write a script to remove mruUsername="xxx" and mruDomain="xxx" from this file.

[hansiecox]

Thanks.  I was looking for this for ages.