[THIN] Re: PNAgent, MPS4, and pass-through authentication

From: "Granatella, Adam" <granatella.adam@xxxxxxxx>
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:09:45 -0600
I just started this position this week, but based on what I've been able to
figure out, this gives the clients the best combination of features they are
looking for.  The main clients are Wyse terminals, and they want to be able
to have anyone use any terminal at any time.  During their testing they
discovered the easiest way to do this was to pre-configure an RDP session to
their load balanced TS "farm," then use pnagent on that farm to run the
applications.

I've seen it done before, but with ICA connections to the TS farm instead of
RDP. 

-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Philip Walley
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 3:03 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: PNAgent, MPS4, and pass-through authentication

i can't help with the issue but I'm curious why you would want users to RDP
into a server and then run a Citrix app from a different server?

Granatella, Adam wrote:

>Hi, any ideas on this?  I found this article:
>
>http://support.citrix.com/kb/entry!default.jspa?categoryID=118&entryID=
>4912&
>fromSearchPage=true
>
>Which states this behavior is by design.  Does this mean pass-through 
>authentication will not work from a terminal server?  If so, does 
>anyone know if there are any Microsoft articles or other information 
>from Citrix that details this?  Thanks!
>
>Adam
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
>Behalf Of Granatella, Adam
>Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 9:27 AM
>To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [THIN] PNAgent, MPS4, and pass-through authentication
>
>
>Good morning, and happy Friday everyone.
>
>I'm running into a strange problem here with pnagent.  I'll try to 
>break down the situation as best as possible.  The problem is, users 
>RDPing into a terminal server (Win2k, XP clients), then using pnagent 
>for their published apps.  We have pass-through authentication set as 
>the only choice in the config file, and it is set as default.
>
>When a user logs into the TS, they are prompted with a login box.  If 
>they right-click on the pnagent icon and choose properties, the Logon 
>Mode field is blank.  Clicking the drop-down shows the pass-through 
>authentication option, but if that is selected, it does not work.  It 
>will disconnect them when hitting OK, then if they try to reconnect, 
>the login box comes up, and if they go back into the pnagent 
>properties, the Logon Mode field is blank again.
>
>Their pilot environment is 2 load balanced WI4 servers on Win2k3 SP1, 3 
>load balanced Win2k terminal servers, and 4 MPS4 servers on Win2k3 SP1.
>
>Now here's where it gets strange.  Local XP clients work fine with pnagent.
>A user (admin or normal user), can login directly to the console of one 
>of the terminal servers, and pnagent works fine, but if they RDP into 
>the terminal server, even using the same userid, pnagent behaves as above.
>
>I've been through the Citrix KB article CTX368624 (troubleshooting 
>pass-through authentication) as well as the articles it references.  
>I've tried various forms of the client install, including a 
>pre-packaged one created here that works fine on XP desktops, and the 
>latest from Citrix's site.  I'm running out of ideas here, so if anyone 
>has seen anything like this, or has any ideas, it would be greatly
appreciated.  Thanks!
>
>Adam
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