Local Devices and Resources

Use the Local devices and resources pane to configure how local resources are used in a remote session.

Clipboard

Select the Allow clipboard redirection option to enable the local clipboard in a remote session.

Note: When you clear this option, it will also disable the Remote Clipboard functionality for affected users in Parallels HTML5 client. For more information, please see Using the Remote Clipboard.

Disk drives

Select the Allow disk drives redirection option and select local drives you want to redirect, or select Use all disk drives available.

If you select the Use also disk drives that I plug in later option, disk drives that you connect to a local computer later will be automatically available in a remote session. Note that this option applies to Parallels Client for Windows only.

Devices

On this pane, specify whether to redirect local devices in general, use all devices available, and also devices that will be plugged in later.

Local devices that can be redirected include supported Plug and Play devices, media players based on the Media Transfer Protocol (MTP), and digital cameras based on the Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP).

Please note that disk drives and smart cards are redirected using dedicated Disk drives and Smart cards options.

Video capture devices

Specifies video capture devices to redirect from a user device to the remote session. This is a high-level redirection that allows to redirect a composite USB device, such as a webcam with a microphone.

• Allow devices redirection: Allows to choose which video capture devices to redirect.
• Use all devices available: Redirect all available devices.

Ports

Select whether to redirect LPT and COM ports.

Smart cards

Select whether to redirect smart cards. Note that if smart card is selected as the authentication type in the Primary connection pane, the smart card redirection is automatically enabled and this option is grayed out.

Windows touch input

Enables or disables Windows touch input redirection. Windows touch input redirection allows users to use Windows native touch gestures from touch-enabled devices, including touch, hold, and release actions. The actions are redirected to remote applications and desktops as corresponding mouse clicks. This option allows you to disable touch input redirection in case of app compatibility issues.

File transfer

Select whether to allow remote file transfer. For additional information, see Enabling or Disabling Remote File Transfer.