David_Wallis

Whats the smallest / simplest (sp) Linux install that could be used for the ICA Client??

Links, documents??

Linux aint my thing incase you hadnt gathered!

David

Jodster

Check these out. Did a bit of an investigation myself a few months back but didn't get too far into it.

www.linuxdoc.org/howto/diskless-howto-15.html for boot rom Linux for ICA.

www.ltsp.org/contrib/ica-howto.html

www.neolinux.org

www.netvoyager.co.uk

dsmith

If you just need to get a client working on hardware that isn't quite up to a modern windoze OS, you could always dust off the Dos6.22/WFWG3.11 floppies and use the citrix 16 bit client

Hard to believe but my old 486SX with 8mb ram used to run that quite happily

David_Wallis

it was becuase we dont want to use 311 that we are looking at linux..

David

Jodster

There are graphic restrictions though from using the Dos ICA client.

ozzy

Checkout ThinPlanet too.

This thread might be just the ticket http://www.thinplanet.net/Community/...&t=116&b=Linux

Stefan

GaryK

David,

ICA client is easy enough:
http://www.citrix.com/download/bin/l...p?client=linux

But you will need one of the 'major' distributions, redhat, caldera or suse to run it. Im not a Linux expert by any means, just getting into it, however if you want an experts answer check out:
http://www.beds.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl

Cheers

Gary

ozzy

I'll second Jodster's comments. We tried the DOS client on PC's about 18 months ago and the video was terrible. It worked fine, just really slow compared to a Win311 or Win32 client.

Scrolling in Excel for example was unbareable.

Stefan

David_Wallis

ok, ive got a copy of redhat 7.2 with the linux ica client installed and working..

Is there anyway I can stop it coming up with the login, and make it autologin and then run an ica session without running xwindows??

I think I need to run

/usr/lib/ICAClient/wfica -desc "PCSS"

but seem to remember editing a file last time I pissed around with linux..

David

David_Wallis

ttt

ozzy

Did you read this http://www.ltsp.org/contrib/ica/ica-howto.html

Stefan

Andrewza

In short?
Twiddle the run level to stop X starting with login screen, create a user you want to use for the ICA client to run as, then create a script that runs at boot to run "startx" as that user, then edit the user's .xsession (or .xinitrc) file in their home dir and remove anything in it and add your line to start the ICA client full screen.

Should work or something like that.

Disclaimer: Never done anything with citrix ever

[Edited by Andrewza - 9/16/2002 4:48:13 PM]

David_Wallis

andrew... I work with nt 2k .net... not linux... twiddle the run level??

I was looking in inittab and something else ???

David

ozzy

When Linux boots it goes into different run levels (3 and 5 are the most common ones I know of and 0 is shutdown **I think**).

There should be rc3.d, rc5.d folders with the various scripts in them.

This should explain the boot process http://barclay.its.monash.edu.au/~kim/boot/boot.html

Stefan

David_Wallis

cheers... ill look at that.

David

ozzy

Jodster's already covered that link.

Stefan

[Edited by ozzy - 9/11/2002 5:01:47 PM]