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Mount a local drive

Mount a folder from your computer.

When you rent a Virtual Machine you may have some documents you want to transfer from your local computer into the Virtual machine. To accomplish this there are a few options. The one we recommend is to leverage the ThinLinc client. Thinlinc offers some options to mount a local drive directly into your virtual machine.

Learn how to use the ThinLinc client application

ThinLinc client options

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Screenshot of how to configure options to mount a local drive

  1. On the main ThinLinc client screen select Options...
  2. In Options select the Local Devices tab and enabled Drives
  3. Select the Details... button once you enabled Drives
  4. Select Add and configure the path to your local folder you want to mount into the VM. Make sure to provide Read & Write access if you want to push data between your computer and the VM.

What it looks like in the VM

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Screenshot of where in the VM you can find your mounted drives

Once you have logged into your VM you can open the Home folder. There will be an option for thindrives. Opening that folder will show you the folder or folders that you have mounted into your VM.

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