Rui Carmo
Citrix is the cross-platform competitor to Microsoft‘s [Terminal Services]/Virtual Desktop. Its [ICA] protocol ([TCP] over port 1494) was originally lighter and more performant than [RDP], but if you ask me, it isn’t that hot in terms of user experience.
You see, a standard client install is usually crawling with [IE]-specific junk to allegedly make it easier to launch applications, and you’re usually better off using the [ICA] connection manager and configuring connections by hand – and not using the browser at all.
Resources
- [GlobalSign SSL Root Certificate] (needed for our particular config and some non-[Windows] clients)
- [Brian Madden’s Book], available as a [PDF].
- Citrix [Yahoo] [widget]
- [Bruno’s notes] on running it on older [Ubuntu] versions.
Notes
- The [Mac OS X] client (version 7.0) only installed properly under an administrative account – in the sense that it doesn’t even know how to ask for the administrative password and bombs out. It has no provision for a system tray/notification area or support for seamless windows.
- The [Java] client supports seamless windows in [Mac OS X], but it requires some tweaking and careful reading of the [documentation] (it is also buggy, but tolerably so).
[Terminal Services]: Terminal Services [ICA]: protocols/ica [TCP]: protocols/tcp [RDP]: protocols/rdp [IE]: com/microsoft/ie [GlobalSign SSL Root Certificate]: http://www.globalsign.net/securedby/check/index.cfm [Windows]: com/microsoft/windows [Brian Madden’s Book]: http://www.brianmadden.com/content/content.asp?id=491 [PDF]: com/adobe/pdf Citrix: com/citrix [Yahoo]: com/yahoo [widget]: http://www.frameworkx.com/frameworkx/contentblogdetail.aspx?blog=56&id=467 [Bruno’s notes]: http://org.against.org/citrix-client-on-ubuntu-606-the-odissey/ [Ubuntu]: os/linux/distributions/ubuntu [Mac OS X]: com/apple/macos [Java]: dev/java [documentation]: http://support.citrix.com/kb/entry.jspa?externalID=CTX106470