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What

This is a "howto" install Citrix ICA Client on a Skolelinux ltspserver.

This first documentation has three objects, first the install of Citrix ICA client, second some config of the "settings file" .ica file, third some config of the .desktop entry to the users,

Important Notice

Citrix ICA client x86 - requires ?OpenMotif 2.2.x I have used libmotif3_2.2.3-2_i386.deb It is not the easiest package to find, so i have made it available from our website. http://skolelinux.hurum.kommune.no/ica-motif/libmotif3_2.2.3-2_i386.deb Download it when you need it in this howto.

Why

  • To have the opportunity to log on to a Microsoft based Citrix farm.
  • To be able to use a Skolelinux thin client as a "springboard" to another terminal server,
    • and use the applications which is installed on the Citrix farm.
  • To use a Microsoft based desktop environment via Citrix, on a Skolelinux thinclient.

How

1. prerequisites

  • A working Skolelinux setup, main server and a ltspserver.
  • Network access from the Skolelinux net to the Citrix net/farm
  • Ports 1494 and 2598 must be accessible from the Skolelinux net to the Citrix net,

those two ports are the "main" ports, but there maybe other ports which must be opened if you'r Citrix net is using other functions and so on.

Log on to the ltspserver you want to be able to connect to a Microsoft based Citrix server platform, make sure that you have a connection to the citrix farm, you can do that by using telnet. If telnet is not installed then type in terminal.

apt-get install telnet

Then check the connection after installing telnet:

ltspserver:~# telnet 192.168.1.20 1494
Trying 192.168.1.20...
Connected to 192.169.1.20
Escape character is '^]'.
IIICA

Above the result is OK. The ipadress to the citrix server is for example 192.168.1.20, port 1494 is used, and you can see the response from IIIICA.

Now create a folder in /etc called ICAConnections

mkdir /etc/ICAConnections

cd /etc/ICAConnections

Download libmotif by using wget, and install it.

wget http://skolelinux.hurum.kommune.no/ica-motif/libmotif3_2.2.3-2_i386.deb

dpkg -i libmotif3_2.2.3-2_i386.deb

/!\ Warning: The software you install has no trust path. Software installed with apt-get is cryptographically signed to ensure a trust path.

Object 1

Download the Citrix ICA client from this direct URL by using wget,this is the current version14/11/07, type in terminal:

wget http://download2.citrix.com/FILES/en/products/Linux10/en.linuxx86.tar.gz

Then "wrap" it up.

tar -xvzf en.linuxx86.tar.gz

Install it.

./setupwfc

/!\ Warning: The software you install has no trust path. Software installed with apt-get is cryptographically signed to ensure a trust path.

Now you should see something like this:

ltspserver:/etc/ICAConnections# ./setupwfc
Citrix Presentation Server Client 10.6 setup.

Copyright 1996-2007 Citrix Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Citrix, Independent Computing Architecture (ICA), Program Neighborhood,
MetaFrame, and MetaFrame XP are registered trademarks and
Citrix Presentation Server, Citrix Access Suite, and SpeedScreen are
trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Microsoft, MS, MS-DOS, Outlook, Windows, Windows NT, and BackOffice are
either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in
the United States and other countries.

All other Trade Names referred to are the Servicemark, Trademark,
or Registered Trademark of the respective manufacturers.


Select a setup option:

 1. Install Citrix Presentation Server Client 10.6
 2. Remove Citrix Presentation Server Client 10.6
 3. Quit Citrix Presentation Server Client 10.6 setup

Enter option number 1-3 [1]: 1

Install by entering option 1 and push enter. Then this will appear:

Please enter the directory in which Citrix Presentation Server Client is to be installed.
[default /usr/lib/ICAClient]
or type "quit" to abandon the installation:

Enter the default path,"/usr/lib/ICAClient" so it should look like this: And push enter.

Please enter the directory in which Citrix Presentation Server Client is to be installed.
[default /usr/lib/ICAClient]
or type "quit" to abandon the installation: /usr/lib/ICAClient

Then this will appear, press y and hit enter:

You have chosen to install Citrix Presentation Server Client 10.6 in /usr/lib/ICAClient.

Proceed with installation? [default n]:y

So proceed with the install:

Proceed with installation? [default n]:y

Accept the license agreement:

CITRIX(R) LICENSE AGREEMENT

Use of this component is subject to the Citrix license covering the
Citrix product(s) with which you will be using this component. This
component is only licensed for use with such Citrix product(s).

CTX_code EP_T_A34320

Select an option:

 1. I accept
 2. I do not accept

Enter option number 1-2 [2]: 1
Installation proceeding...

Accept the integration below by pressing "y", and hit enter.

Checking available disk space ...

        Disk space available 1164740 K
        Disk space required 4961 K


Continuing ...
Creating directory /usr/lib/ICAClient
Core package...
Setting file permissions...
Integrating with browsers...
Browsers found.

Integration complete.
Do you want to integrate the Citrix client with KDE and GNOME? [default y]: y

Finished installing.

Now create a folder:

mkdir /usr/lib/ICAClient/connections

Object 2

In current folder (/etc/ICAConnections), create a file named ica-admin.ica, and copy/paste the content listed below, this is the so called "settings" file. This file contains the IP-Adress to the Citrix server, color, resolution and so on.

touch ica-admin.ica

And then copy this text/content below to the ica-admin.ica file, use you'r favourite editor. Please read my comments in the file!

;******************************************************************************
; ica-admin.ica - settings file for ICA ADMIN connection, Name of your company
;******************************************************************************

[WFClient]
Version=1
TcpBrowserAddress4=192.168.1.20
TcpBrowserAddress3=192.168.1.21
TcpBrowserAddress2=192.168.1.22
TcpBrowserAddress=192.168.1.23
#Above is the ip adresses to the citrix servers, if you have several servers.

[ApplicationServers]
Hurum=
#Above is the name of the application of your citrix setup,
#for example in our case Hurum municipal, it's name is "Hurum"
#But in your case, it is certaint to be something else, probably/maybe company name.
#Below we follow Hurum's application, but remember you do probably have another name,
#so change it, change ewerything in this file which contains the word "Hurum"
#This is just an example file.
[Hurum]
WinStationDriver=ICA 3.0
TransportDriver=TCP/IP
DisableCtrlAltDel=On
SSLEnable=Off
BrowserProtocol=UDP
EncryptionLevelSession=Basic
Compress=Off
TransportReconnectDefault=True
SSLProxyHost=*
UseAlternateAddress=0
ProxyUseDefault=On
EnableAudioInput=No
AudioBandwidthLimit=2
ClientAudio=On
MouseSendsControlV=Off
CDMAllowed=Off
UseDefaultSettingForColormap=Yes
ZLMouseMode=2
ZLKeyboardMode=0
#DesiredColor=8
DesiredColor=15
NoWindowManager=True                         
UseFullScreen=Yes
#DesiredVRES=768
#DesiredHRES=1024
InitialProgram=#Hurum
Address=Hurum
Launcher=Custom

Save the file.

And move the ica-admin.ica file to /usr/lib/ICAClient/connections

mv ica-admin.ica /usr/lib/ICAClient/connections

Ok! Now we have installed the ICA Client on the server, and we have made som adjustments to the settings file so we actually can connect to the Citrix farm. Time to do object 3, which is to create the .desktop file, and copy it to the desktop of the user.

Object 3

You current directory is probably /etc/ICAConnection, stay there, and now create the ica-icon.desktop file:

touch ica-icon.desktop

Use your editor of choise and copy the text/content below. Please read any comments in the file, this is just an example.

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Adminnett.
Comment[nb]=Adminnett
Exec=/usr/lib/ICAClient/wfica -log -icaroot /usr/lib/ICAClient -file /usr/lib/ICAClient/connections/ica-admin.ica
GenericName=
GenericName[nb]=
Icon=/usr/lib/ICAClient/icons/session.png
MimeType=
Name=ICA ADMIN
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DCOP-ServiceType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

Now we have the created the ica-icon.desktop file, which you can copy to your desktop. And then try.

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