[THIN] Re: passing client environment variables in citrix
- From: "Andrew Wood" <andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:48:03 +0100
You've still got the published application sat on the citrix farm - scripted
updates to the clients if needs be - its not as if all hope is completely
lost ;)
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jeff Pitsch
Sent: 27 October 2005 15:40
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: passing client environment variables in citrix
Keep in mind that with this solution you lose the centralized management
that is a great part of Metaframe. Now you have to individually control
every workstation if something needs to change.
Jeff
On 10/27/05, erik.blom@xxxxxxxxxx <erik.blom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Andrew,
Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for. I'll try this out.
Erik
> You could use, /param:, which is an argument to wfcrun32.
>
> You have to set your published application to have the standard client
> redirection "%*" at the end. Once you've done this you can launch the
> command line with:-
>
> Wfcrun32 (ica file).ica /param:"%envvar1% %envvar2%"
>
> For example, say you've got a published appplication with a command line
> as
> as follows:
>
> c:\windows\system32\wscript.exe "c:\store\test.vbs" "%*"
>
> You can then launch an .ica file for the published app with a local client
> command line -
>
> Wfcrun32 myapp.ica /param:"%envvar1%"
> Or
> Wfcrun32 myapp.ica /param:"%envvar1% %envvar2%"
>
> Once test.vbs is launched in the Citrix session, it will operate on the
> envvironment variables passed in from the client.
>
> Obviously, change the application name as suites, and your app needs to be
> able to take in a parameter.
>
> If its lots of information, pipe it out to a file, launch the ica session
> and use the file as the input - you'd need drive mapping for this to work
> tho'.
>
> Hth.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ] On
> Behalf
> Of erik blom
> Sent: 26 October 2005 13:22
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] passing client environment variables in citrix session
>
> Is there any way I can pass client environment variables into a citrix
> session? I have an app that defines a variable on the fat client, and
> that
> starts up an ica session to a published app. We now need this variable
> available in the published app.
>
> regards,
>
> Erik
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