[THIN] Re: Lanch app through environment tab using WI
- From: "Andrew Wood" <andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:18:37 -0000
...sorry still a bit lost ... for a moment I thought you were asking if you
could configure Citrix to allow a connection to an individual desktop pc's
desktop.
When you say '2000 TS' you mean a Windows 2000 Terminal Server? So, your
users are connecting to their fat desktop (using remote administrator), then
connecting via RDP (from their desktop) to a Windows 2000 Terminal Server
hosted on the Terminal Server to run ... their desktop? And you've added
Citrix to this Terminal Server - or replaced the W2k Terminal Server with a
W2k3 Citrix Server?
In which case - you've now got the option of allowing your users to securely
connect to the Citrix Server from their remote machines without the need for
Remote Administrator.
As for why you should pay for a program - I'd agree, why indeed. Unless
there was some specific need to connect to your desktop for an application
or something - which it appears there isn't.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Evan Mann
Sent: 22 November 2005 13:57
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Lanch app through environment tab using WI
Remote Administrator is a tool like VNC. It gives the user remote control
of their actual PC.
These users are not Citrix users, thus they have a fat desktop, and nothing
via a Citrix environment. It's "I want to connect to my actual pc desktop".
They will have to do this via citrix now, because we replaced out 2000 TS
with Citrix.
There is no reason to pay for a program to do it. Why should I pay per user
for gotomypc or some other product and have a bunch of desktops with access
into them beyond my firewall? It's easy to do what I want in 2000 TS
because they actually have to login to a server via RDP. With WI, that
doesn't exist, so I need to find the ppropriate way to do it, preferrably
without having to create 1 published app per user, or a bunch of .cmd files.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Andrew Wood
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 5:24 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Lanch app through environment tab using WI
Does 'remote administrator' give you some additional functionality? Is it
giving access to their 'desktop' in that its their actual pc - or do you
simply want to provide a desktop type environment, not necessarily their pc?
If it was 'i want to connect to a desktop environment' I'd be asking why not
use citrix directly - why can't you just have an ica client on their remote
pc?
if it was 'i want to connect to my actual pc desktop' then you'd be looking
at using something like gotomypc or logmein
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Evan Mann
Sent: 21 November 2005 20:48
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Lanch app through environment tab using WI
Users approved for working from home use a tool called Remote Administrator
to get access to their desktop at work while at home. These are non-Citrix
users. Under 2000 TS, I'd specify the app to launch and connect to their
computer via the Environment tab. This app would launch when they login to
the TS server.
With Citrix, and them hitting Citrix through WI only, what would be the
appropriate way to accomplish the same behavior? Would I just publish a
regular desktop for the user and when it launches, the environment tab would
kick in?
When they close the remote tool, would the desktop session terminate and log
them out (this happens on 2000 TS), or would they be dumped to their Citrix
desktop?
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