[THIN] Re: ICA Gateway between MF 1.8 and MF XP
- From: "Ron Oglesby" <roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:44:00 -0500
Sorry to break the bad news but this isn't going to happen. MF XP needs
to run in mixed mode. And the Gateway 1.8 was a two way thing between
1.8 servers There is no gateway feature in XP since it is not needed.
1.8 needed it since its browse list was built by broadcast and therefore
limited to the local subnet and you needed this to span subnets with the
farm. XP does not use this method so it will not work.
So the only thing to do (in your case) Is create an XP farm in mixed
mode to incorporate the 1.8 servers. At least one of the XP servers will
have to reside on the same subnet as the 1.8 servers. This will allow
you to migrate from the existing 1.8 farm to XP since Mixed mode is not
meant for long term use (best practice not longer than a month, Longest
I have seen it successful before problems start to occur 8 weeks.
Longest I have SEEN it run. 5 months but the farm was falling apart by
my standards at that point.
In anyway you are going to have to upgrade or keep two different farms.
Ron Oglesby
Senior Technical Architect
RapidApp
Office 312.372.7188
Mobile 815.325.7618
email roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Slayden [mailto:rslayden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 10:29 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] ICA Gateway between MF 1.8 and MF XP
We have a fairly large MF 1.8 farm (27 servers-NT 4.0 TSE/3800 Wyse
Winterm users) and we are about to deploy a small MF XP farm (3
servers-W2k3/90 users). We use Wyse Winterms (3350 and 3360) and we want
to enable access to BOTH farms from the same Winterm. It appears that
the ICA gateway will fit the bill nicely. My question is the ability of
the ICA gateway to function across disparate versions of MetaFrame. I
have two questions related to this problem:
Has anyone used the ICA Gateway functionality across MF 1.8 and MF XP?
As each farm will reside in its own subnet, is there a better solution
than the ICA Gateway to enable this access?
Note that the option to upgrade the MF 1.8 farm is cost-prohibitive as
we would need to purchase a LARGE number of TS CALs and W2K3 CALs (not
currently in the budget!).
On another note, I FINALLY get to attend Citrix iForum after 4 years of
managing a large MF farm. I am looking forward to networking with others
of "my kind" and hearing about the different implementations of Citrix
MetaFrame, not to mention the technical breakout sessions! I will be
taking my family and am wondering if anyone has any good family-oriented
hotel recommendations. The Swan and Dolphin look like they would be fun
for the family but the rooms are a little pricey, even with the
iForum-attendee discount. Is it just me or does anyone else think Citrix
could have worked out a better deal than $239 per night??!!
Thanks for any and all responses.
Rob Slayden <><
NT/Citrix Systems Engineer
24 Hour Fitness, Inc.
2234 Rutherford Rd.
Carlsbad, CA 92008
760-918-4787 - Work
760-802-8498 - Cell
760-918-4854 - Fax
rslayden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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