[THIN] Re: Publishing applications to specific computers

Cool as a cucumber. I was an IBMer once as well.

We have a Citrix farm that runs Office applications, and data-centric
applications.
We have a client infrastructure with both Thin Clients (2/3) and PCs /
Laptops (1/3).
The requirement is to run all MS Office applications locally (on PC) where
possible, but still have file-type associations working on the thin-clients
so that we can launch office applications locally.

If I publish Word with filetype associations, I can launch a .doc straight
from the thin-client's explorer (Windows XP embedded). But on a PC, it also
lauches the published app instead of the local one.
If I publish Word without filetype associations, I can't launch word by
double-clicking on a .doc, but on a PC, it launches correctly with the local
copy of Word.

So I want to publish applications to a group of machines. I can do it for a
group of users, but when I add a machine to a group, the machine's group
membership is ignored.

I didn't write the requirements, and I didn't design the damned thing. I've
just got to make it work.

TIA,
Jeremy.

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From: Jeremy Saunders [mailto:jeremy.saunders@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday 26 August 2004 16:24
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Publishing applications to specific computers





Hi Jeremy (Cool name :)),

Explain more about what you are trying to achieve with filetypes. ie. What
devices are you using, and how should they differ?

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No - applications are published straight to the start menu. We don't use
NFuse or WI.

I've tried adding a computername to a group, but that does not seem to work.

My key problem is filetype associations. I need this to run on a per-device
basis, not a per-user basis. I can control it per-user using groups, but not
per device.

From: Arthur Reyes [mailto:artadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 4:32 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Publishing applications to specific computers

Well, if your thin-clients have local web browsers. . . . .
You need two web interfaces and the Hide Apps WI hack (detailed here
http://www.citrix4ge.de/wim/wimha.htm)
Configure all the thin clients to point to WI B.  Everyone else browse to WI
A.
WI A has the hack hiding all the apps you want to hide.

I saw somewhere how to replicate the NFuse structure on the same server, so
that you can effectively have two WI's hosted by one server, but I can't
remember where.


From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jeremy Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:58 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Publishing applications to specific computers

Hi folks,

I need to publish an application (say Word) to some PCs, but not others. So
devices that have word installed locally (laptops) run word locally, and
devices that are always attached to the network (Thin Clients) run word
through a published application. How do I publish an application to one
group of computers and not another?

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