Citrix questions

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1) Yes Citrix can use AD logins, as well as independant ones, secure keychains or a combination of all. Logon scripts are actually done through Terminal Services, so you can set TS scritps via Active Directory. Citrix sits on top of Microsofts Terminal Services.

2) No idea, but googling, its nothing to do with Citrix, looks like it is a third party logon script processor

3) Pass through appplications are applications that are pushed to the client. For instance, you have a client with no apps on at all, except for the citrix client, and on the server you install and publish Outlook & Excel, you then give that user the ability to access the applications, and the next time the user logs on, they appear on their computer and run as if they are installed on the local client. Printing, depending on the application can be tricky, but standard stuff like Office and mainstream CRM & ERP stuff will be fine, Citrix will by default load the printer as the users default, as long as you have the drivers on the PE server that is ;)
We had problems with an old application which meant everything had to have short names and use bog standard HP drivers, fortunately we ditched the software :)


What course are you doing?


The real magic is that if you have PE server you can get it so that remote users can access the servers via a webpage and run applications from anywhere with an internet connection. But it is a pain to set up ;)
 
Correct. Kix is a third party login script.

Printing shouldn't be an issue, except drivers, essentially you need drivers installed on the server for any printer a user has connected to their machine, which is royal pain...
 
I wouldn't have the print server directly on the Citrix Server though, it may hamper performance and if you get problems you really don't want to boot 30 people off the server to reboot it.

Best way really is to have the print devices installed on another server and just add the drivers to the citrix server(s)

Citrix does have a universal printer driver though, which works well with 90% of the apps I have used with it. That you can set up within the policies.



Top tip though, not printer related, due to the way it compresses data, 16bit colour actually has a smaller network footprint than 256 colours... Try it on a slow connection for yourself ;)
 
so how do you setup citrix to print to the local printer?

IIRC by default Citrix will try to map any local printers to the remote session automatically. This will work if there are drivers on the server for the printers.

One thing to note, the only times I've seen Citrix go really **** up is due to dodgy printer drivers being installed on the Citrix server. Always check compatibility before installing drivers.
 
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