Author:Kristina De Nike
This release adds support of a scanner's automatic features, such as skipping blank pages, automatic rotation and border removal. Please See changelog for more information. If you own a license for v2, please click the button below to update your license. USB for Remote Desktop allows you to redirect all the USB devices plugged into your local computer to RDP, PCoIP or Citrix session. The remote system handles any redirected USB device as if it were plugged directly into the remote side. The only way to regain control of my USB devices through the remote desktop is to restart my Mac. Given the same behavior over several machines for the last year with two different operating systems (OS 10.8 and now OS 10.9 Mavericks), I firmly believe this is something inherent to VMWare's stability on the Mac when dictating.
Kristina De Nike is a product line manager for VMware EUC. In addition to her current responsibilities for Horizon Clients, she has worked on VMware Horizon FLEX and VMware Workspace ONE integration. She brings her love of consumer products, data-driven decision making and clear UI to the end-user side of VMware EUC.
The VMware View Client for Mac 1.7 now allows you to redirect your locally attached USB devices from the local Mac to your View desktop. You can now copy a file to a thumb flash drive, save a picture from a camera or print a document to your local printer, all from your View desktop.
To start, you just need to turn on USB services the first time, by selecting “Start remote desktop USB services” from the USB drop down. From then on, your attached USB devices will be listed in the USB drop down.
You can only use a device in one system at a time, either the local Mac or the remote desktop. However, it is easy to move a device between the two systems, using the drop down menu in the View Client. Note: When you add a device to the virtual machine, you may have to install the Windows drivers for the device.
Remote Desktop Client Mac Os X
RemoteFX USB redirection complements the native Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) device redirection features in order to provide users with a complete experience when managing different types of devices in a remote session. ← Remote Desktop Client for Mac USB redirection Enable USB redirection to allow the use of USB devices that only come with Windows drivers or USB pen drives.
To use this feature, your View administrator must have USB enabled for your View desktop. It is also possible to configure the client system to specify which USB devices can be redirected to a View desktop or to exclude devices.
Enable Remotefx Usb Redirection
Most USB devices will be visible in the menu, with the exception of devices such as keyboards and pointing devices, which the local computer and the View desktop already share. Note: webcams and audio device functionality depends on the state of your network and are not reliable in the View desktop.
Remote Desktop Folder Redirection
We are excited to add USB redirection to the VMware View Client for Mac. Go here to download the client.