A few month ago I wrote an article about using VMware View 3 with Novell eDirectory. At this time I was testing the installation with View 3, a Novell Netware eDirectory (not Open Enterprise Server) and a Active Directory Server which users and passwords were in sync through DirXML. As you see this environment has [...]

Since Virtual Desktop Manager 2.1 the VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure got a default setting which blocks direct RDP connections to the virtual desktops. When a user tries to connect to the desktop with a standard Microsoft RDP client he will get a message stating: Access denied. In case that there was a requirement for connections [...]

The users in a View environment access the virtual desktop via the RDP protocol. For that to work the user needs to have special access rights. As a standard only the administrator has direct RDP access to the remote system. To configure access for the user you could do that on a per desktop basis [...]