That's fine and dandy, but publishing iexplore.exe with the -e option
doesn't do the same as explorer.exe with a /root option.
iexplore will still let you browse up past the start path. Most of my
users are not smart enough to go into the address bar and type a different
path, and if I hide the address bar to begin with, it's even more "secure"
for the general user.
I don't offer this to more then 2 or 3 users to begin with, so i'm not
really concerned with "possible" side effects.
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*From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
Behalf Of *Joe Shonk
*Sent:* Friday, July 21, 2006 10:58 AM
*To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [THIN] Re: Published Explorer as an app, not a shell ... And
how to restrict it?
This method is not recommended and supported by Citrix. The perfer method
is to publish iexplore.exe instead.
Also, has anyone noticed with W2k3 SP1 (PS4R1) that if run explorer.exeyou no
longer get the shell, just explorer.
Joe
On 7/21/06, Evan Mann <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I did the following:
>
> 1) Copy explorer.exe to an alternate location, rename to
> ctx_explorer.exe (for ease of finding in process view)
>
> 2) Publish app as follows: ctx_explorer.exe /root,"c:\" (place the root
> path in the quotes, can be any location.
>
> If you set the root path at say, H:\Jane, then it wont let them go
> back/up beyond H:\Jane, but they can just go into the address bar and
> type H:\ or C:\ or anything else and browse around. I found no way
> around this. Hidding the address bar is one way to prevent it I
> suppose, but they can just show it again.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Landin, Mark
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 10:38 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Published Explorer as an app, not a shell ... And how to
> restrict it?
>
> I need to give my users an Explorer file management window published
> from a Citrix server, but when I publish it and they launch it, they get
>
> a full desktop instead. I guess it's launching Explorer as a shell, not
> as an app. So, how do I give my users an Explorer window, as an app?
>
> I'd also like to restrict their browsing to a particular directory tree
> and not let them get anywhere else, but am not usre how hard that would
> be with Explorer. If others have alternative suggestions, I'd like to
> hear them. Thanks!
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