basically we control all our apps to our own farm the old way of copying icons to a desktop based on group membership its been set up for a while on Metaframe XP. we have a requirement for a published app from head office farm only one app for a handful of people there is a upgrade project in the pipe line for to upgrade farm to 4.5 with web interface but being tied down in a Vista roll out at the moment has put that on hold for now but that is the way we will be progressing which will make my life much easier. For not it looks like I have to script to copy the required files for these handful of users to their app data based on a group membership. -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Stalhood Sent: 19 March 2008 12:46 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: connecting to a farm in different farm If everybody needs to run the same app and only one app, it's easier to use an .ica file rather then doing it in PN. If you need multiple apps, then create a pre-configured Program Neighborhood that has the .ini files ini it. Configure your published apps to put the icon on the desktop and start menu. When the user launches PN the first time, it will be pre-configured and the shortcuts will appear automatically. The major problem with PN is that it is not centrally configured. You have to be good at scripting to change the configuration once the client is deployed. Another problem with PN is that some of the newer features, like Workspace Control, are not supported. I suspect that Citrix won't be doing much development in the PN client. Just out of curiosity, why is Web Interface/PNAgent not a possibility? On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Hamilton, Ronnie <ronnie.hamilton@xxxxxxx> wrote: sorry to revisit this again but I wont be able to use PNagent as It would need a web interface to populate the icons as I recall, I can set the published app up on a pre user bases but what I would like to be able to do is just copy the pn.ini , the appsrv.ini and the uistate.ini as these are the ones were I see the changes that seem to apply. the part that is killing me here is the three hidden files that relate to the shortcut for the published app. Where the target is "C:\Program Files\Citrix\ICA Client\pn.exe" /APP "E I S" /PNI "kf4gs4n5" and the kf4gs4n5 relates to the hidden files with the shortcut being a different random number. When I try to use the same shortcut it fails, is this even possible when it created in a users profile is it linked there some way. -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Shonk Sent: 18 March 2008 16:23 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: connecting to a farm in different farm Yes, and you can merge multiple farms together as a bonus. This will also allow you to manage the ICONs on the Desktop of you existing farm. Joe ________________________________ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hamilton, Ronnie Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:16 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: connecting to a farm in different farm Joe, can this be used on an XP server ? ROn -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Shonk Sent: 18 March 2008 16:07 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: connecting to a farm in different farm You will want to use PNAgent to manage the shortcuts and not PN. Joe ________________________________ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hamilton, Ronnie Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:55 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] connecting to a farm in different farm Hi , Need to connect to a published app in head office in a 4.5 farm, I have all this running fine on the server if I create the application set and the run the published app it runs fine My question is how do I make this available to our clients from within their desktops? When I copy the shortcut the application set is unavailable, I have tried using the same PN.ini file but still no difference as I see all the settings is in this file. thanks Ronnie Visit our website : www.ltai.ie <http://www.ltai.ie/> __________________________________________ Lufthansa Technik Airmotive Ireland Limited. Registered in Ireland. Reg. No. 45999. Registered Office: Naas Road, Rathcoole, Co.Dublin. Lufthansa Technik Airmotive Ireland Leasing Limited. Registered in Ireland. Reg. No. 140891. Registered Office: Naas Road, Rathcoole, Co.Dublin. __________________________________________ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please advise by return email and delete all copies of the message.