topic Re: Horizon View 6 and Kiosk Mode via URL in Horizon Desktops and Apps

Horizon View 6 and Kiosk Mode via URL

heimdm — Tue, 19 May 2015 20:33:35 GMT

I want to automate logging in to desktops via URL.

I found the following syntax to access a desktop: VMware-view://<fqn>/<desktop-name>?desktopProtocol. Is there a way to pass in username, password, domain so a user is not prompted?

I want to do that with the thick client and HTML5/blast.

Re: Horizon View 6 and Kiosk Mode via URL

lirick — Fri, 29 May 2015 07:48:50 GMT

For HTML5/Blast, you can connect to your desktop via different parameters of URI:

https://{broker address}/?domainNam=xxx&userName=xxx&desktopId=xxxxx&action=start-session

The password is not supported by URI, please refer Using HTML Access guide for more information.

Re: Horizon View 6 and Kiosk Mode via URL

yuleyl — Fri, 29 May 2015 08:07:47 GMT

For native client, URI supports to pass username, domain and protocol, but it doesn't support to pass password.

Example:

vmware-view://username@server.com/desktopname?domainName=domainname&desktopProtocol=protocol-name

If you want to SSO for remote desktop via URI, you can configure SAML Authentication.

Example:

vmware-view://username@server.com/desktopname?domainName=domainname&desktopProtocol=protocol&SAMLAuth=abcdef123456

Thanks.