{"id":10303,"date":"2011-09-08T17:49:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T21:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps4rent.com\/support\/?p=10303"},"modified":"2022-06-01T16:35:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:35:47","slug":"sharing-printersusb-devices-and-local-resources-between-hosted-desktop-and-your-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/kb\/article\/sharing-printersusb-devices-and-local-resources-between-hosted-desktop-and-your-computer","title":{"rendered":"Sharing printers\/USB devices and local resources between hosted desktop and your computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp; Click on Start and type mstsc.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE:&nbsp;&nbsp; Windows Vista; Windows 7; Windows 8\/8.1 and Windows 10 customers can click on Windows Button and R at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp; Type mstsc.<\/p>\n<p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp; Click on Options.<\/p>\n<p>4.&nbsp;&nbsp; Type the login name which will be in the format HOSTALLAPPS\\username or VDI\\<\/p>\n<p>5.&nbsp;&nbsp; Click on Local Resources Rab.<\/p>\n<p>6.&nbsp;&nbsp; To Share your Printer\/Clipboard of your local PC; put a check mark next to &#8220;Printers&#8221; and &#8220;Clipboard&#8221; options.<\/p>\n<p>7.&nbsp;&nbsp; For USB devices click on &#8220;More&#8221; and expand &#8220;Other Supported Plug and Play Devices by clicking the plus sign&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>8.&nbsp;&nbsp; Put a check mark next to &#8220;Devices that I plug in later&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>9.&nbsp;&nbsp; Click OK.<\/p>\n<p>Some other devices that you can share selectively are:<\/p>\n<p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp; Your local drives.<br \/>\n2.&nbsp;&nbsp; Smart Card.<\/p>\n<p>Tip:&nbsp;&nbsp; You can expand the Drives Section and select the devices which you wish to Share.<\/p>\n<p>Download PDF file with steps and images:&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MS-RDP-options-for-printer-and-local-drive-redirection.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MS RDP options for printer and local drive redirection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp; Click on Start and type mstsc. NOTE:&nbsp;&nbsp; Windows Vista; Windows 7; Windows 8\/8.1 and Windows 10 customers can click on Windows Button and R at the same time. 2.&nbsp;&nbsp; Type mstsc. 3.&nbsp;&nbsp; Click on Options. 4.&nbsp;&nbsp; Type the login name which will be in the format HOSTALLAPPS\\username or VDI\\ 5.&nbsp;&nbsp; Click on Local Resources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,1065],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hosted-desktop-functionality","category-hosted-desktop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}