
With the client drive redirection feature, you can share folders and drives on the local client system with remote desktops and published applications.
Shared drives can include mapped drives and USB storage devices.
When using the client drive redirection feature to share a USB drive with a remote desktop, you cannot unplug the device and plug it back in during the remote desktop session.
The client drive redirection feature does not support sharing Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, and enterprise file storage.
In a Windows remote desktop, shared folders and drives appear in the This PC folder or in the Computer folder, depending on the Windows operating system version. In a published application, such as Notepad, you can browse to and open a file in a shared folder or drive.
You can turn on the ability to open local files in published applications directly from your local file system. If you select a local file and press Control-click, the Open With menu lists the available published applications. You can also open a local file by dragging it into the published application window or Dock icon.
If you set a published application as the default application for files that have a certain file extension, all files on your local file system that have that file extension are registered with the server. You can also turn on the ability to run published applications from the Applications folder.
The client drive redirection settings apply to all remote desktops and published applications.
To share folders and drives with a remote desktop or published application, a Horizon administrator must enable the client drive redirection feature.
Verify that you can see the shared folders from within the remote desktop or published application.
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In a Windows remote desktop, open File Explorer and look in the This PC folder, or open Windows Explorer and look in the Computer folder, depending on the Windows operating system version. |
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In a published application, select or and navigate to the folder or drive. |
The folders and drives that you selected for sharing might use one (or more) of the following naming conventions.
For some remote desktops, a redirected folder can have two entrances, such as under Devices and drives and Network locations in Windows 10, and both entrances can appear at the same time. If all the volume labels (from A: through Z:) are already in use, the redirected folder has only one entrance.