topic Horizon 6 Direct Connection Plug-In + HTML Access in Horizon Desktops and Apps

Horizon 6 Direct Connection Plug-In + HTML Access

Herb0ne — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 18:06:18 GMT

Hello,

I've just set up a horizon view 6 enviroment with the direct connection plug-in successfully.

Now I try to get the most out of that envirement and by that try to accomplish the html access.

I followed this guide:VMware KB: Enabling HTML Access with the VMware Horizon View 5.3 Agent Direct Connect plugin for horizon 5.3 which doesnt work.

Can anybody guide me through the steps needed for the html access in horizon 6 with direct access plug-in?

Kind regards

Herb

Re: Horizon 6 Direct Connection Plug-In + HTML Access

lirick — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 05:33:16 GMT

The setup for View 6 has a little difference with 5.x, you can try by following below steps:

1. Install View Agent

2. Install VADC plugin

3. Get web client package: VMware-Horizon-View-HTML-Access-x.y.z-000000.zip

4. Install IIS and configure Web Client like the steps d in KB

Re: Horizon 6 Direct Connection Plug-In + HTML Access

Herb0ne — Thu, 14 May 2015 18:38:09 GMT

Thank you very much for your help. I got everything working so far. On my local network everything works great, but if I connect throu an external IP things are not so good.

I can access the main page and login to the VM from an external ip. All fine, but than the screen just stays blacj and I get disconnected with a certificate error. If I click on the link provided by the error nothing happens.

I've forwarded the ports according to this:http://blog.tsugliani.fr/featured/howto-horizon.view-agent-direct-connection-pcoip/ post.

can anybody help me to find out what's missing?

kind regards

Herb

Re: Horizon 6 Direct Connection Plug-In + HTML Access

heimdm — Fri, 22 May 2015 15:54:50 GMT

I have the exact same thing. Have you had any luck on this?

Re: Horizon 6 Direct Connection Plug-In + HTML Access

heimdm — Tue, 26 May 2015 02:12:25 GMT

This is what I have figured out:

1) Registry Entry externalBlastPort appears to change the port that the web client will expect Blast to be on

2) Whatever you set externalBlastPort to, if changing from the default you also need to change the Blast GPO parameter http service to that port.

By doing #1 and #2, blast internally works for me now, when using a non-default port. However, even with all the ports forwarded, blast does not work externally. Looks at the logs via fiddler, I never see the request for the HTTPS Tunnel to the blast port, everything shows as 1000, which is my HTTPS port for view agent.

Other thing I noticed, if I change the port that view agent is running on (registry entry: httpsPortNumber) to anything but 443, Blast is broken internally and externally.

Re: Horizon 6 Direct Connection Plug-In + HTML Access

Herb0ne — Sun, 31 May 2015 20:47:58 GMT

Hi heimdm,

I now use a full grown set up with connection server, active directory and vcenter. Now the html access works like a charm.

You can edit the external paths with ease in the connection server controll center. I know it's a lot more work to get that running,

but worth the time if you need to have html access. I drive this setup with 7.5Mbit upload and a k2 grid in vdga and autocad, youtube and such things run

verry well. I think my low upload is defenitely a bottleneck, so if you have a greater upload maybe mild gaming would also be possible.