Citrix (Pete's notes)

Web to the Citrix home page. Go to Products. Go to Citrix ICA Clients. At the bottom of the page, in the Downloads section, click on Follow this link. In the Citrix MetaFrame XP News section, in the Citrix ICA Clients 6.30 paragraph, click on Download ICA Clients. In the UNIX section, click on Linux client. Accept the license agreement. Get ICAClient-6.30-1.i386.rpm. Then do the obvious. This will install the /usr/lib/ICAClient directory.

Modify the .bashrc file to add:

#
# Set up Citrix
#
if [[ ${HOST} = 'proteus' || ${HOST} = 'kiev' && -d /usr/lib/ICAClient/ ]]; then
    if [ $DEBUGGING ]; then
	echo ".bashrc: setting up Citrix..."
    fi
    pathadd /usr/lib/ICAClient
    export ICAROOT=/usr/lib/ICAClient
    export CITRIX_SERVER=echo.scd.ucar.edu
fi
    
To start Citrix in order to configure it, run "wfcmgr". Bob Campbell wrote Using the ICA client in Linux, which you can follow to set up the connection to the SCD Citrix server, but his instructions won't tell you to turn on the Properites->Connection->Use Data Compression button and turn off the Properites->Connection->Enable Sound button. The former just makes Citrix faster, but the latter is crucial. If you have Enable Sound set and you're playing Internet radio via xmms when you start Citrix, Citrix will hang. Te client will connect to the server and display blue main window, but before displaying the "Metaframe" splash box. It'll just sit there with a blank blue screen, forever.

If you have problems connecting to the server, it may be because your system won't allow the server's packets to reach the client. See the ipchains web page.

Once you've configured Citrix with wfcmgr, you'll typically run it with "wfica", which starts it without making you select a server.

To change size of the window that Citrix displays, get out of Citrix and run wfcmgr. Highlight echo.scd.ucar.edu and click on the Properties button (the picture with the hand pointing to a page). Select Window and then unselect the Use Defaults button. Then you can selectFixed Size.

To look at a Word attachment from a mail message, scp the .doc file to netserver. On proteus, use the wfcmgr command to start Citrix. Double-click on ECHO. If a window appears and immediately disappears, double-click on ECHO again. You may need to do this a few times to get it to work. Log in as siemsen. Double-click on My Network Places. Double-click on siemsen on netserver. Then click on the file to open it.


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Last modified: Thu Dec 26 15:57:30 MST 2002