[THIN] Re: Citrix and Novell
- From: "Keith Sirmons" <KSirmons@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <jim@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:27:27 -0500
The College provides the file storage for all users data. My department runs
just the hospital side. All of the hospital data is stored on our windows
servers, but any teaching data is stored on the college file servers which are
novel. I do not have control over the novel servers, but I do have some input
to request they open up different pathways to the data for me.
Keith Sirmons
Microcomputer/LAN Administrator
College of Veterinary Medicine
>>> "Jim Kerr" <jim@xxxxxxxxxx> 9/14/2005 9:59:48 AM >>>
Why don't you just get rid of the Novell side? The Microsoft side can
authenticate and be used as a fileserver too.
----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Sirmons
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:51 AM
Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix and Novell
Matt,
Thank you.
I was thinking that I will not publish a desktop, but only publish the apps to
the Wyse XP Embedded thin clients.
The only thing the Novel severs will be doing is authentication and data
storage.
Now, If I can figure a way around this, I would not be against syncing the
directories together so the authentication comes from the AD side, but the
files need to be on the Novel servers.
If there is a way to write files to the Novel servers without having the client
on the citrix servers I'm willing to explore that scenario as well.
Keith
Keith Sirmons
Microcomputer/LAN Administrator
College of Veterinary Medicine
>>> matt.kosht@xxxxxxxxx 9/14/2005 8:34:33 AM >>>
On 9/13/05, Keith Sirmons <KSirmons@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> We are looking to move our vet hospital toward a thin solution using citrix.
> We currently use the Novel Client on computers to access the file servers.
>
> When we move to Citrix, how well does the Novel-Citrix integration work?
>
> We are planning to deploy the Microsoft Office applications, Novel
> GroupWise, and our own custom written medical application.
>
> We want to still allow users to keep their office files on the Novel
> servers.
>
> Is there a good guide to go by for setting this environment up or any
> pitfalls I should be wary about?
>
>
> Also, what licensing issues should we be looking out for?
>
>
> Thank you in advance for any help or guidance this group can provide.
In my opinion it does not work as well as Citrix does with Active
Directory. It does work well enough to do what you want. You will
have to run at least Metaframe XP 1.0 FR2/SP2 to get the most out of
this.
We still have some issues with Zenworks DLU policy not being able to
delete roaming user profiles (we roam them from a novell server).
Password changes are an issue. Citrix PN doesn't recognize a grace
login on an expired password account (I would recommend setting grace
logins to 0 on you Novell User ID's) for example. The whole setup is
hypersensitive to Microsoft service packs/rollups (which Citrix in
general is), Novell client changes and Zenworks Management Agent
changes. Also you can look forward to Citrix support knowing next
nothing about Novell integration.
-Matt
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