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Enabling session storage

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Enabling session storage - Amazon DCV
Enabling session storage on WindowsEnabling session storage on Linux

Session storage is a folder on the Amazon DCV server that clients can access when they're connected to a specific Amazon DCV session. When you enable session storage for a session, clients can download files from, and upload files to, the specified folder. This feature enables clients to share files while connected to a session.

Enabling session storage on a Windows Amazon DCV Server

To enable session storage, first create the folder to use for session storage. Then, configure the storage-root parameter using the Windows Registry Editor.

To enable session storage on Windows

  1. Create the folder to use for session storage (for example, c:\session-storage).

  2. Configure the storage-root parameter.

    1. Open the Windows Registry Editor.

    2. Navigate to the HKEY_USERS/S-1-5-18/Software/GSettings/com/nicesoftware/dcv/session-management/automatic-console-session key and select the storage-root parameter.

      If there's no storage-root parameter in the registry key, create one as follows:

      1. In the navigation pane, open the context (right-click) menu for the session-management/automatic-console-session key. Then, choose New, String.

      2. For Name, enter storage-root and press Enter.

    3. Open the storage-root parameter. For Value data, enter the full path to the folder that's created in step 1.

      You can also use %home% in the path to specify the home directory of the user who's currently signed in. For example, the following path uses c:\Users\username\storage\ as the session storage directory.

      %home%/storage/
      Note

      If the specified subdirectory doesn't exist, then session storage is disabled.

    4. Choose OK and close the Windows Registry Editor.

    5. Stop and restart the Amazon DCV server.

  3. Start the session and specify the --storage-root option. For more information, see Starting Amazon DCV sessions.

Enabling session storage on a Linux Amazon DCV Server

To enable session storage, create the folder to use for session storage and then configure the storage-root parameter in the dcv.conf file.

To enable session storage on Linux

  1. Create the folder to use for session storage (for example, /opt/session-storage/).

  2. Configure the storage-root parameter.

    1. Navigate to /etc/dcv/ and open the dcv.conf with your preferred text editor.

    2. Locate the storage-root parameter in the [session-management/automatic-console-session] section. Replace the existing path with the full path to the folder that you created in step 1.

      If there's no storage-root parameter in the [session-management/automatic-console-session] section, add it manually using the following format.

      [session-management/automatic-console-session]
storage-root="/opt/session-storage/"

      You can also use %home% in the path to specify the home directory of the user who's currently signed in. For example, the following parameter uses the $HOME/storage/ directory for session storage.

      [session-management/automatic-console-session]
storage-root="%home%/storage/"
      Note

      If the specified subdirectory doesn't exist, then session storage is disabled.

  3. Save and close the file.

  4. Stop and restart the Amazon DCV server.

  5. Start the session and specify the --storage-root option. For more information, see Starting Amazon DCV sessions.

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