I’ve been using the VMware View Open Client for a while now. One of the things that the VMware View Open Client is still lacking is USB redirection. I just received a cool workaround for this “problem” from Attila Bognár.
In short: VMware View Open Client calls rdesktop, if you add a script with the name rdesktop to your path you can add several commandline options:
- Create a script called /usr/local/bin/rdesktop
- The script needs to contain the following:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/rdesktop -r ‘disk:media=/media’ “$@” - Add “/usr/local/bin/” to the PATH variable and make sure it’s inserted before the original location of the rdesktop(usually /usr/bin) binary.
The -r option adds USB redirection, but you could use any of the other rdesktop commandline options to achieve the desired functionality.
Christoph says
Ive never tried that. Is the usb drive mredirected as a network drive?
Christoph