[THIN] Re: Citrix Address some ICA Client issues with v8.1
- From: "BRUTON, Malcolm, FM" <Malcolm.BRUTON@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:43:04 -0000
Those 1004 events were killing me. Been complaining for over 6 months about
it to Citrix!!! The worst part was that this was stopping users logging on
but it only seemed to effect NT4 machines like that. Thanks for the read
me. Have been trying to find this before deciding which client to use in
next desktop build.
Malcolm
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Subject: [THIN] Citrix Address some ICA Client issues with v8.1
Finally I won't be plagued with so many 1004 Licensing Errors in the
Event Logs per this readme for v8.1 client:
Readme for MetaFrame Presentation Server Client for 32-bit Windows,
Version 8.100
Filenames Ica32pkg.msi, Ica32.exe, Ica32a.exe, Ica32t.exe, Wfica.cab,
Wficat.cab
For MetaFrame Presentation Server Clients for 32-bit Windows
Replaces All versions prior to May, 2004
Date September, 2004
Language English (US)
Description
The MetaFrame Presentation Server Client for 32-bit Windows supports
the following platforms:
Windows XP
Windows 2003
Windows 2000
Windows 98
Windows 95
Windows Me
Windows NT 4.0
Windows NT 3.51
Where to Find Documentation
This document contains information about the MetaFrame Presentation
Server Clients for 32-bit Windows. For more information about the
clients, see the Client for 32-bit Windows Administrator's Guide,
Version 8.x. Documentation, including the Administrator's Guide, is in
the Document Center located in the \Documentation\docs directory on
the Components CD. The Document Center provides a single point of
access to the documentation and enables you to go directly to the
section in the documentation that you need. You can access the
Document Center from the product CD or install it on your servers.
If you prefer to access the guide without using the Document Center,
navigate to the component PDF files using Windows Explorer. The guide
is in an Adobe Portable Document (PDF) format file. To view, search,
and print the documentation, you need Adobe Reader 5.0.5 or later with
Search. You can download Adobe Reader for free from the Adobe Web site
at http://www.adobe.com/.
All product documentation is also available in PDF format from the
Citrix Web site at http://www.citrix.com/support.
Notes about this Release
Certain fixes in this release require you to install a corresponding
server hotfix to gain full functionality. The required server hotfixes
are indicated with each applicable line item in this readme. If the
readme indicates that a server hotfix is required, but none is listed
for your platform and language version, contact customer support for
assistance.
With clean installations of this release (that is, on computers where
you did not previously install Version 8.0 of the client), the default
behavior of SSPI, controlled by the SSPIEnabled entry in the
wfclient.ini file, is different from the way it was in Version 8.0 of
the client:
For Version 8.100 of the client, the default value for SSPIEnabled is
ON. If you are upgrading from Version 8.0 of the client, the default
value for SSPIEnabled is OFF. [#83635]
The Gateway Client fails to open MetaFrame Secure Access Manager
access centers when Windows XP, Service Pack 2, is installed. This
issue is unrelated to MetaFrame Presentation Server Clients. Applying
this upgrade does not correct the issue. For more information and to
download a Microsoft Update for Windows XP Service Pack 2 that
corrects the issue, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB884020.
Issues Resolved in this Release
The following issues with the previous release of this product were
addressed and fixed in this current release:
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CAUTION! Several items in this fix require you to edit the registry.
Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may
require you to reinstall your operating system. Citrix cannot
guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry
Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.
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Large file transfers:
Transfers of large files over wide-are networks (WANs) tended to be
slow relative to the available bandwidth. This was caused, in part, by
the earlier design of the drive mapping feature. This fix, along with
the requisite server Hotfixes and registry entries, results in
significant performance gains for large file transfers over WANs.
Note: You must apply both this release and the following server
Hotfixes, depending of the server platform:
· For Windows 2000 and MetaFrame XP 1.0 with Feature Release 3 -
Hotfix XE103W2K081
· For Windows 2000 Server and MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 -
Hotfix MPSE300W2KR01
· For Windows Server 2003 and MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 -
Hotfix MPSE300W2K3R01
Enable the following registry entries:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal
Server\Wds\icawd
(REG_DWORD)CongestionMonitoring
(REG_DWORD)AsyncDiskWritesToClient
(REG_DWORD)DiskReadAheadFromClient
All three registry entries are independent and enabled by the value 1.
If undefined or set to 0, the corresponding feature is disabled.
CongestionMonitoring improves throughput without impeding on interactivity.
Recommendation: Always enable.
AsyncDiskWritesToClient improves the speed of disk writes and file
transfers from server to client. However, when a session is
disconnected or the client device runs out of disk space during an
asynchronous transfer, you must reinitiate the file transfer after
reconnecting to the server.
Recommendation: Only enable if client-side files written by server
applications are easy to recover in case of disconnected sessions.
DiskReadAheadFromClient improves the speed of disk reads and file
transfers from client to server, and, unlike AsyncDiskWritesToClient,
without any compromising functionality or data integrity.
Recommendation: Always enable.
[82457]
Automatic client reconnection:
Note: To get the automatic client reconnection feature for servers
running MetaFrame Server 1.2 for UNIX, you must install server Hotfix
ME113SB200, ME113HB200, or ME113AB200, depending on your server
platform.
Manually reconnecting to a disconnected session on a server running
MetaFrame for UNIX 1.1 with Feature Release 1 or MetaFrame for UNIX
1.2 prevented the auto client reconnection feature from being invoked
if the session was disconnected again.
[82345]
Automatic client reconnection:
As designed, clients would make an indefinite number of attempts to
reconnect to disconnected sessions until the connection was
reestablished or until you clicked Cancel in the corresponding dialog
box. Support has been added for disabling automatic client
reconnection and for limiting the number of automatic reconnection
attempts. To do this, you must edit each user's Appsrv.ini file. By
default, this file is installed in the %USERPROFILE%\Application
Data\ICA Client folder.
To disable automatic client reconnection:
Open the Appsrv.ini file in a text editor.
Add or modify the following parameter in the [WFClient] section to
read as follows:
TransportReconnectEnabled=0
To limit the number of automatic reconnection attempts:
Open the Appsrv.ini file in a text editor.
Add or modify the following parameter in the [WFClient] section to
read as follows:
TransportReconnectRetries =<value>
where <value> indicates the number of reconnection attempts.
In the same section, locate the TransportReconnectEnabled parameter.
If it is present, set its value to 1. If it is not present, no
additional action is required for Step 3.
Also, if an unrecoverable error occurred during a reconnection
attempt, the client ignored the error and continued its reconnection
attempt(s). With this fix, a dialog box has been added to inform you
of the error.
[85983]
Num Lock state:
Clients were sometimes slow or unable to update the server Num Lock
state (On/Off)..
[76606, 85057]
Num Lock state:
Users of terminal emulation software, such as WRQ Reflections, were
unable to use special function keys, such as PF1, that are mapped to
the Num Lock key. As a result, pressing the PF1 key also unexpectedly
changed the Num Lock state.
[77424]
Server-to-client content redirection:
If a redirected URL specified a non-standard HTTP port, that is a port
other than 80, the client was unable to access the URL. This was
caused by the fact that the URL was stripped of the port number when
the client Web browser was launched.
[80871]
Program Neighborhood:
Occasionally, the client failed to launch applications in an
application set and caused an ID 1004 terminal services event in the
event log. This was caused by an error in the client/server
capabilities negotiation process. Occasionally, the process
represented that the client supported smart card authentication and
was then bound by the server to use smart card authentication even
when you were not using a smart card for authentication.
[85645]
Program Neighborhood:
You were prompted for credentials for each connection you made to a
server. This was caused by a particular flag being cleared for each
connection. With this fix, the flag is no longer cleared so that logon
information is reused for subsequent connections.
[88712]
Program Neighborhood Agent:
Moving the cursor over Program Neighborhood Agent shortcuts placed on
the Quick Launch bar when Program Neighborhood Agent was not running
caused the shortcuts to display the Windows default icon.
[82108]
Program Neighborhood Agent:
The application list did not refresh properly under the following
circumstances:
· When a user closed the client's Properties dialog box
· When a user logged off and back on to the client
· When the client's configuration and application refresh intervals
were the same
[86422]
Program Neighborhood Agent:
Servers failed to recognize user names that contained the ampersand
(&) symbol, for example, j.smith@xy&z.com, and rejected users' logon
attempts.
[85421]
Program Neighborhood Agent:
Single sign-on failed when connecting to servers running different
versions of MetaFrame Presentation Server. This was caused by the fact
that the client was attempting to locate the server DLL, ctxrpc.dll,
which starting with Presentation Server 3.0 is located in a different
directory than in previous versions of the product.
[87760]
Program Neighborhood Agent:
If enabled from the Program Neighborhood Agent Console (or in the
config.xml file), single sign-on was available as a logon option from
the Program Neighborhood Agent properties dialog box even if you opted
not to enable single sign-on at install time.
[89478]
Program Neighborhood Agent:
When using Program Neighborhood Agent as the pass-through client,
users running Windows 98 occasionally experienced the following
issues:
· Published application shortcuts occasionally failed to launch the
associated application on clients running Windows 98
· When clicking Program Neighborhood Agent's system tray menu, the
application list failed to appear
[88610]
Web Client:
Occasionally, you were unable to launch applications from the ICA Web
Client. This was caused by an incorrect parsing of client proxy
settings for Internet Explorer.
[86426]
Web Client:
Updates to the Web Client from the Auto Client Update Database failed
if you were using a manually extracted addition of the ica32t.exe Web
Client package. This was caused by the fact that the installer package
failed to create a dedicated resource directory. Therefore, the update
database was unable to locate the resource files in the expected
location and the update failed.
[86946]
Web Client:
After installing the Web Client using the ica32t.exe file, the
client's name would appear as Citrix Web Client in the Add/Remove
Programs control panel. With this fix, the client name is displayed as
MetaFrame Presentation Server Web Client for Win32.
[89098]
Program Neighborhood and Secure Gateway:
Program Neighborhood Clients installed on Windows 98 and Windows NT
devices were unable to locate servers through the Secure Gateway over
HTTP/HTTPS.
[83732]
Zen Agent for Desktops V. 4.0:
Single sign-on failed in certain client configurations that included
combinations of Program Neighborhood Agent, Zen Agent for Desktops
4.0, and the Windows 98/SE operating system.
[82392]
Dragon NaturallySpeaking dictation software:
French users of Dragon NaturallySpeaking dictation software were
unable to display diacritic characters (é, è, à, ...) in published
instances of Microsoft Word.
[80227]
Unresponsive client sessions:
When using the scrollbar, certain published applications led the
client to become unresponsive in connections to servers where
SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration was enabled.
[79559]
Unresponsive client sessions:
When you minimized and then maximized or restored a session set to
100% screen size the window failed to redraw, giving the appearance
that the session was becoming unresponsive.
[80141]
Unresponsive client sessions:
Playing video files in client sessions occasionally resulted in an
unresponsive session or caused a fatal client error. This was caused
by the way the client multimedia driver was implemented.
[90600]
Unresponsive client sessions:
On clients running Windows 95 and Windows 98, dragging or resizing a
local application window while in an ICA session occasionally rendered
the display unresponsive.
[89001]
Print Screen key:
Pressing the Print Screen key in a non-seamless ICA session would
unpredictably capture either the client desktop or the ICA session.
[81712]
Print Screen key:
Pressing the Print Screen key in seamless connections caused
unexpected results in some applications. This happened when the
AlwaysSendPrintScreen entry in the appsrv.ini file was set to On.
[91858]
NEC PC-98 keyboards:
The Esc key did not work properly.
[84961]
NEC PC-98 keyboards:
An incorrect key message was sent to server applications when you
pressed the [vf.2] key on NEC PC-98 keyboards if ICAPrntScrnKey=F12
was set in the [WFCLIENT] section of the Appsrv.ini file.
[85579]
Client memory:
Memory allocated to the ICA ActiveX control was not properly released
for use by the client operating system or other applications after the
client exited.
[86717]
Connections through proxy servers:
If you were using a Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) file and the client
was unable to download the PAC file, for example, due to the client's
location, you were not able to connect to servers. Support for a proxy
fallback has been added that allows clients to bypass the proxy to
connect to servers. To enable the fallback:
Open the Appsrv.ini file in a text editor.
Locate the DoNotUseDefaultCSL entry.
· If set to True, add the following parameter to the
[applicationservername] and/or the [applicationsetname] sections:
ProxyFallback=yes
· If set to False, add the following parameter to the [WFClient] section:
ProxyFallback=yes
Save your changes and close the file.
[86975]
Connections through proxy servers:
When using a .ins file to dynamically configure proxy settings, you
were not able to connect to servers.
[88356]
Auto-created printers:
If you created printers from the command line, using the following entries:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /n\\printserver\printer (to
create a client printer)
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n\\printserver\printer (to set a
printer as the client default printer)
the printer at the top of the printer list was set as the client
default printer, regardless of which printer was the actual default
printer. This was caused by the way queries compared printer names to
default printer names.
[85953]
SpeedScreen Browser Acceleration:
Clients did not properly apply the compression and maximum compression
settings configured for servers running MetaFrame XP 1.0, Feature
Release 3 and MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0.
[90906]
Client display:
When changing client display settings before reconnecting to a server,
the tray icon of MetaFrame Password Manager occasionally displayed
transparent or invisible.
[87609]
Smart cards:
Occasionally, reconnecting to a server failed when using smart card
authentication. This was caused by improper handling of smart card
status routines.
[80574]
Special characters in published application names:
Published application names that contained special characters, such as
Ü and Ä, caused the following issues:
· The application failed to launch and generated the error message,
"Not able to find ICA connection settings. The connection cannot be
launched"
· A generic icon was displayed in place of the icon representing the
published application
· In Program Neighborhood, the name for the published application may
have displayed incorrectly
[90611]
Installing the client:
On devices running Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me, the two
client installer files, ica32.exe and ica32pkg.msi, showed different
default values for the Use machine name as client name option.
[90433]
Uninstalling the client:
You could not properly uninstall clients that were installed with
multiple Client Packager, ica32pkg.msi, files. This was caused by the
fact that certain registry keys were not removed when uninstalling.
[86333]
Error messages:
During network outages, an error message was displayed in SSL
connections, stating, "The Citrix server is unavailable." This was
misleading in that the message may have directed administrators'
attention to servers running MetaFrame Presentation Server rather than
to the network outage. The new error message does not make reference
to MetaFrame Presentation Server or Citrix.
[90513]
Mouse pointer:
Occasionally, the mouse pointer was not updated properly when moving
over a disabled seamless window. This was caused by the fact that the
window procedure does not receive mouse messages for disabled windows,
which caused servers to be unaware of mouse movements on disabled
seamless session windows.
[89708]
Connections launched from ICA files:
Seamless connections launched from an ICA file, such as those launched
from the Web interface, did not honor settings specified in Program
Neighborhood. This was caused by the fact that for seamless
connections launched from ICA files, only the parameters specified in
the ICA file were applied, but not those specified in the appsrv.ini
file.
[88985]
Seamless connections:
When running a published application in seamless mode, moving the
mouse pointer over associated icons in the system tray inadvertently
disconnected the session. This was caused by a buffer processing flaw.
[85458]
Miscellaneous:
When launching an ICA file from the desktop, associated temporary ICA
files were created in the same folder as the ICA file. With this
release, temporary ICA files are created in Internet Explorer's cache
folder.
[87648]
Miscellaneous:
Windows Explorer showed an inaccurate date modified time stamp for
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets on local devices running Windows 98.
Note: You must apply both this release and the following server
Hotfixes (#72187), depending of the server platform:
· For Windows 2000 and MetaFrame XP 1.0 with Feature Release 3: XE103W2K129
· For Windows 2003 and MetaFrame XP 1.0 with Feature Release 3: XE103W2K3041
· For Windows 2000 and MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0: MPSE300W2KR01
· For Windows 2003 and MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0: MPSE300W2K3R01
[91460]
Installation Instructions
See the Client for 32-bit Windows Administrator's Guide, Version 8,x.
for step-by-step instructions for installing the Clients for 32-bit
Windows.
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