Client deployment

[bob1000]

Hello- When the users click refresh in Program Neighborhood no farm/application set is returned - presumably this is because the servers sit on a different subnet. Does anyone know of a way around this?

 

[30362]

How many servers do you have? If you have more than 1 do you have them participating in load balancing and if so do you have any published applications defined?

 

[bob1000]

Hello- yes they are load balanced with applications published. We have to set the server location manually then clients can connect. In our test area the client automatically discovers the application set for that user. But not in production.

Does the PN client only broadcast to the same network segment / subnet as we use Vlans. And if so is there a workaround without configuring each w/station?

Thanks in advance..

 

[30362]

I am in a similar situation, I have 5 servers participating in load-balancing in our corporate office and 7 remote locations that use the servers. Any ICA client in the corp location can see a published application list just fine, but the remote sites don't return any published apps unless I put servers in the client's address list. I tried placing a MF server w/ no licenses in one of my remote locations just to act as an ICA browser (recommended by Citrix) but this didn't work.

I asked this same question and the answer I got was that I had to put manual entries in the address list for each client, which works fine. Like you, I don't want to have to touch each client machine, it was suggested that I create a custom client config and deploy it on each machine. Check out thread48-529448 in this group.

 

[bob1000]

Yes it must be a subnet thing. Strangely I can't find any info on the discovery part of the client connection process.

Now - does it matter if all users use the same PN.INI? ie the same app set name? And therefore the same .VL and .IDX file even if its empty?

 

[30362]

Check out Citrix support document CTX466058 - it has several supporting documents that help you to create a customized PN client install. You can then use a custom MSI in a login script or with some other deployment tools.

 

[bob1000]

Aha- best solution is to use the Citrix PN agent with NFuse. Fantastic. No more headaches for deployment!!