[THIN] Re: passing client environment variables in citrix

  • From: Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:51:43 -0400

No I didn't say all hope. :) It really depends on how many clients and if
they are any good at scripting updates, etc. as long as your dealing with an
ica file on the client, it does make it more difficult to control. that's
all I'm saying.
 Jeff

 On 10/27/05, Andrew Wood <andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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 ;)
>
>  ------------------------------
> *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 ] 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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