[THIN] Re: Published Explorer as an app, not a shell ... And how to restrict it?

  • From: "Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com" <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:00:47 -0700 (PDT)

Use a utility like the Free 2XExplorer (which gives you dual panes like the old 
windows 3.1 interface.  http://netez.com/2xExplorer/  You can publish that out 
and your users will like it even more than explorer.
   
  JK

Michel Roth <> wrote:
  PS4 hooks explorer.exe and doesn't allow for it to be run as the shell: 
http://www.thincomputing.net/newsitem1622.html

Regards,
Michel Roth

  On 7/21/06, Evan Mann <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:        That's fine 
and dandy, but publishing iexplore.exe with the -e option doesn't do the same 
as explorer.exe with a /root option.
   
  iexplore will still let you browse up past the start path.  Most of my users 
are not smart enough to go into the address bar and type a different path, and 
if I hide the address bar to begin with, it's even more "secure" for the 
general user.
   
  I don't offer this to more then 2 or 3 users to begin with, so i'm not really 
concerned with "possible" side effects.  
   
   

    
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  From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of Joe Shonk 
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 10:58 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Published Explorer as an app, not a shell ... And how to 
restrict it?



    
This method is not recommended and supported by Citrix.  The perfer method is 
to publish iexplore.exe instead.

Also,  has anyone noticed with W2k3 SP1 (PS4R1)  that if run explorer.exe you 
no longer get the shell,  just explorer. 

Joe

  On 7/21/06, Evan Mann <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:   I did the 
following:

1) Copy explorer.exe to an alternate location, rename to
ctx_explorer.exe (for ease of finding in process view)

2) Publish app as follows: ctx_explorer.exe /root,"c:\" (place the root 
path in the quotes, can be any location.

If you set the root path at say, H:\Jane, then it wont let them go
back/up beyond H:\Jane, but they can just go into the address bar and
type H:\ or C:\ or anything else and browse around.  I found no way 
around this.  Hidding the address bar is one way to prevent it I
suppose, but they can just show it again.

-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Landin, Mark
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 10:38 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [THIN] Published Explorer as an app, not a shell ... And how to
restrict it?

I need to give my users an Explorer file management window published
from a Citrix server, but when I publish it and they launch it, they get 
a full desktop instead. I guess it's launching Explorer as a shell, not
as an app. So, how do I give my users an Explorer window, as an app?

I'd also like to restrict their browsing to a particular directory tree 
and not let them get anywhere else, but am not usre how hard that would
be with Explorer. If others have alternative suggestions, I'd like to
hear them. Thanks!
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