[THIN] Re: Accessing Published Applications From a Published Desktop
- From: "Jim Hathaway" <JimH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:18:48 -0800
Mike,
You can do ICA pass through from an ICA file, or through custom
configured connections to apps / desktops. If you already have pass
through authentication working from within the desktop sessions for your
users, you should easily be able to get customized ICA files to work.
Check the following tech articles from Citrix's site for the entries
you'll need to add to your ICA files.
http://support.citrix.com/kb/entry!default.jspa?categoryID=118&entryID=1
789&fromSearchPage=true - CTX368624 = troubleshooting Citrix
Pass-through
http://knowledgebase.citrix.com/kb/entry!default.jspa?categoryID=118&ent
ryID=1898&fromSearchPage=true - CTX632027 = Custom ICA connections and
ICA files in pass through mode prompt for credentials.
HTH
J
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike MacDonald [mailto:Mike.MacDonald@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:05 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Accessing Published Applications From a Published
Desktop
Thanks for the reply. Is there anywhere you could point me for more
information on the scripting that would need to be done?
Thanks,
Mike MacDonald
-----Original Message-----
From: Claudio Rodrigues [mailto:crodrigues@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:49 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Accessing Published Applications From a Published
Desktop
You can try a script that would retrieve the computer name that is
connecting and then check if that computer has another connection opened
already or even deny connections coming from the server where the PN ICA
passthrough is.
I know on SecureRDP (that works with ICA also) I can set the # of
connections allowed per user or per IP address and that would help I
guess. The script I think will work also...
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike MacDonald [mailto:Mike.MacDonald@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: December 4, 2003 10:35 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Accessing Published Applications From a Published
Desktop
One thing I forgot to mention, the most obvious solution of limiting the
number of instances of the published desktop the users can run to one
doesn't work. This is because some users need to be logged in from more
than one client.
-Mike MacDonald
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike MacDonald
Sent: Thu 12/4/2003 10:28 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: Accessing Published Applications From a Published Desktop
First, we are running W2K/MFXP FR3 and most users connect to a published
desktop. We also use published applications. Basically we follow an
80/20 rule, meaning if 80% of the users run an application it gets
installed on the published desktop server, if 20% or less use it we
install it on a published application server.
My issue is that once in the published desktop users have access to PN
using ICA passthrough, from which they can access their published
applications. The problem is that they can also access their published
desktops. Our users are not the most savvy, so we have a lot of cases
were they connect to their published desktop multiple times, one inside
the other.
What I would like to do is either:
1) Restrict their ability to launch the published desktop from the
published desktop servers.
>or<
2) Create ICA files on the published desktop servers and provide access
to the published apps that way. The problem here has been trying to get
the ICA file to use pass-through authentication. From what I understand
you can't do the pass-through authentication within an ICA file?
Is there a good way to implement either solution or is there another
alternative I haven't cosidered.
Thanks in advance,
Mike MacDonald, MCSE, CCA
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