Hi,
We are looking to deploy published applications with Horizon View 7.0.2 but we seem to be getting a little stuck when trying to open files from the client device via the remote application if the file originated from on a network share.
For example, if I have file in C:\Temp called Hello.XLSX, if I right click and Open With (Excel - Horizon), it will duly go to the RDSH server and open Excel with the file on the client PC.
If however, I try the very same operation from a file that resides on either a UNC path or a mapped drive on the client, it throws up an error, largely in part because the remote app server doesn't have the mapped drive or has trouble understanding how to open a file that isn't technically on the client that originated the request. (within the logs you can see its attempt to open \\tsclient\XXXX but that isn't really going to work with a file that isn't physically on the client.
In the world of Citrix, they permit the use of relative paths so you can call the application with the UNC path (I believe by updating the application publishing variables) also in alignment with a Registry Key, but is there any way of doing this in VMware as all our users documents are stored on DFS and we would rather the users didn't have to open the published application first to then File/Open the document as it means extra button presses, education for the users.
Many thanks
Andrew
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