[THIN] Re: Citrix / Novell Issues?

  • From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:21:07 -0700

Are you passing AD or LDAP credentials when a user logs into WI?  Have you
checked the order in which the GINAs are chained?  What version of the
Novell Client are you using?

 

Joe

 

From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jim Medeiros
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 5:35 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Citrix / Novell Issues?

 

I have 5 Metaframe XPe (FR3, SP4) servers running on win2k3 with SP1. all of
them have the Novell client installed. We are using WI (4.0) to front-end
the published apps. One of the 5 servers just has it's desktop published
while all the others have multiple pub apps incl desktop. 

The problem is that whenever anyone accesses the published desktop app on
this one server it is not running the Novell login, it appears like it is
just authenticating with Microsoft. I can then right-click on the N in sys
tray and login and then it will run the Novell logon script and so on.
Sometimes I don't even get a desktop, just a blank blue screen, although I
can see in the console that there is an active session running!!  I believe
this to be a result of us redirecting the desktop folder to one of those
mapped drives that are not mapping because the Novell login process didn't
complete.

This happens through WI, PN (using pass through auth) or PNAgent. It's even
happened once or twice with just a PN connection to the server (not pub app.
If I get prompted to login to Novell then things are good.  To complicate
things even more we are using roaming profiles (through group policy) and
redirecting both the desktop and my docs folders to another area of the
network.  To make things worse, it doesn't happen all the time, but it does
seem to affect most users at least some time.

I've been searching for days on all the Citrix sites and can't find anything
that comes close to helping me.  At first we tried deleting or renaming both
the Citrix local profile and the network profiles but that only works for a
short time and then it happens again.  

Anyone have any ideas? 
Thanks! 
Jim

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