[THIN] Re: Running a dos based application from a share on a file server
- From: DMelczer@xxxxxxxx
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:02:02 -0500
I know this sound silly, but it may help...
Write you're app launching batch file to do the following steps:
- Map drives
- Write a small temp file to newly mapped drive
- Delete the small temp file from newly mapped drive
- Launch application from mapped drive
I know that even though drives have been mapped, they appear in explorer
with an "X" through the drive icon...I forgot what this means, but basically
writing a small temp file and then deleting it allows future read accesses
to be unencumbered. Write accesses seem to be allowed, just not reads. We
do this "kludge" with an application we have here. Try it and see if it
works for you...
By the way, to create and delete the temp file, just do something like the
following:
ECHO This is a temp file > Q:\letmein.txt
DEL Q:\letmein.txt
It doesn't really matter how you create the file...
Hope this helps.
-Dave Melczer
dmelczer@xxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: ShaneBroomhall [mailto:shanebroomhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 7:20 PM
To: Thin. net Mailing List
Subject: [THIN] Running a dos based application from a share on a file
server
Hi All,
I have an issue with a clients site, where I have configured a batch file
which I have published that maps a drive to a file server and then runs the
dos application.
the problem being when I try to run the application via the script the drive
maps and shows me the mapped I: drive but the applicaiton does not run.
When the drive is already mapped the same line to run the application from
the run command works ?
I have tried mapping the drive when the user logs on to the Citrix server
but no Luck as the profile loads, and then unloads but does not run the app.
I would prefer not to have it running inside a published desktop which
works.
Any hints and suggstions would be appreciated.
Cheers and thanks in advance.
Shane Broomhall
Citrix Trainer & Consultant
Shane Broomhall Consulting Pty Ltd
Brisbane Australia
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