{"id":10311,"date":"2011-09-08T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps4rent.com\/support\/?p=10311"},"modified":"2022-06-01T16:38:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:38:53","slug":"prevent-sharing-of-local-resources-like-printers-and-devices-on-your-hosted-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/kb\/article\/prevent-sharing-of-local-resources-like-printers-and-devices-on-your-hosted-desktop","title":{"rendered":"Prevent sharing of local resources like printers and devices on your Hosted Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default; the RDP connection to your Hosted Desktop is configured to share your local PC&#8217;s resources like printers\/USB devices and drives.&nbsp; If for any reason you want to disable such sharing; please follow these steps.<\/p>\n<p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp; Click on Start and type mstsc<br \/>\nWindows Vista and Windows 7 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<\/p>\n<p>5.&nbsp;&nbsp; Click on Local Resources Rab.<\/p>\n<p>6.&nbsp;&nbsp; To prevent sharing of Printer\/Clipboard of your local PC; uncheck &#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; Uncheck &#8220;Devices that I plug in later&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>9.&nbsp;&nbsp; Click OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default; the RDP connection to your Hosted Desktop is configured to share your local PC&#8217;s resources like printers\/USB devices and drives.&nbsp; If for any reason you want to disable such sharing; please follow these steps. 1.&nbsp;&nbsp; Click on Start and type mstsc Windows Vista and Windows 7 customers can click on Windows Button and [&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-10311","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\/10311","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=10311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}