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4.2.1 Drive Redirection
The Drive Redirection function gives the administrator another virtual disk drive on the Host
computer. With Drive Redirection, you do not have to use a disk image file. Instead, the
Remote-side user can open a drive on his or her local computer and use it on the Host machine.
Thus, the drive is shared over a TCP network connection. Devices that can be redirected are
floppy drives, hard disks, CD-ROM drives, and other removable devices such as USB storage
drives.
It is even possible to enable write support so that the Remote-side user can write data to his or her
local disk from the Host machine. However, if write support is enabled, care should be taken that
the two systems do not write onto the same disk at the same time, as computer operating systems
cannot distinguish a local system from a redirected system.
WARNING: If both the Host system and the Remote system try to write data on the same
device at the same time, data may be damaged and/or lost. Please use this feature only if
you know what you are doing.
Above: Click on Drive Redirection to see the status and setting options for this function.
Please note that Drive Redirection works on a more basic level than the operating systems of the
computers. This means that neither the Remote-side nor the Host-side operating system is aware
that the drive is being redirected. This may lead to inconsistent data when the operating system
(either on the Remote-side or Host-side machine) is writing data on the device. If write support is
enabled, the Host computer/server might damage the data and the file system on the redirected
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