Administrator Guide

Enable username hint for smart card login
You can enable users to specify the account to be used in the Username hint field when you log in to a Horizon View session using a
smart card. Enabling this option allows you to use a single smart card certificate to authenticate to multiple user accounts.
To enable the username hint field, do the following:
1. Log in to the View Administrator Admin console, and click View Configuration > Servers.
2. On the Connection Servers tab, select the View Connection Server instance, and click Edit.
The Edit Connection Server settings page is displayed.
3. Click the Authentication tab.
4. In the View Authentication section, select the Allow smart card user hints check box.
You cannot configure the smart card user name hints feature when you set the smart card authentication to Not Allowed.
5. Click OK.
On the ThinOS client, log in to a Horizon View session with a smart card. In the VMware Horizon View broker sign-on window, enter
the username and the smart card PIN to authenticate the user.
NOTE: If the user name does not match the smart card certificate user, an error message No user could be
found for your Certificate is displayed.
VMware Real Time Audio-Video
Use the Real-Time Audio-Video feature to run Skype and other online conference applications on the remote desktop. Using this feature,
both audio and video devices that are connected to your thin client are available to use for VoIP in remote desktop.
To know more about the VMware Real Time Audio-Video support, go to pubs.vmware.com/horizon-62-view/topic/com.vmware.horizon-
view.desktops.doc/GUID-D6FD6AD1-D326-4387-A6F0-152C7D844AA0.html.
NOTE:
There is no additional configuration for ThinOS. RTAV video requires RTME package to be installed on your
device.
To validate the VMware Real Time Audio-Video, do the following:
1. Connect to the VMware PCoIP or Blast desktop with the audio and video devices.
NOTE:
USB redirection must be disabled for the audio/video devices.
2. Verify the audio playback of the system using the VMware virtual audio.
3. Verify the system audio recording using the VMware virtual microphone.
4. Verify the audio settings in VoIP application.
5. Verify the video settings in VoIP application using the VMware virtual webcam.
6. Start the audio or video calls.
Dependencies and known issues
• Dependency: RTME.i386.pkg needs to be installed for RTAV video.
• The answer call button of the local audio device, supported by HDX RTME, is not supported by RTAV.
• RTAV does not support RDS desktop, for example, 2008 R2/ 2012 R2 according to VMware.
• Support for PCoIP and Blast protocol only. RDP protocol is not supported according to VMware.
• Webcam preferences are not supported. For example, the first webcam displayed in the Camera tab in local peripheral settings is used
always.
• Camera/Video: High Definition video is not supported because of the RTAV limitation. The local camera setting does not affect RTAV
video because of the application design. Dell recommend users not to interfere with the local camera settings.
VMware Blast
VMware Blast display protocol can be used for remote applications and for remote desktops that use virtual machines or shared-session
desktops on an RDS host. Select this protocol connection to display the desktop with the Blast protocol.
NOTE:
When you pause the pointer over the connection icons, the corresponding connection protocols are displayed in
tooltip. This is designed for RDSH applications. The RDSH application is supported for both PCoIP and Blast protocol.
These two protocols share the same application icon, and hence it is necessary for you to pause the pointer over the
connection icons to identify its protocol.
84 Configuring the connection brokers