NFuse - browser: Need help with seamless 1st time client set up

[mulawa1]

I've spend two days on this and have got to the stage where I'm going backwards so would greatly appreciate some assistance. I'm an application programmer so I struggle with some of the "behind the scenes" stuff so please feel free to comment on my understanding as well as my problems.

Set up: MetaFrame XP with NFuse on a server called frog.

What I'm trying to achieve: When a Win98/2000 client connects to frog via a browser and tries to run a published app, the effect will be the same as the Citris Site Demo Room - ie the first time the client connects it will be offered an "Open this file from its current location" and the plugin will be seamlessly installed.

What's happening: Clients that have been to the Demo Room first can then use frog straight away - no problems. Clients that go to frog first, get offered the file ok (boilerplate.asp) but the browser (IE5 in both cases) doesn't know what to do with it so they can only save it to disk.

Also I have managed to get my main test client into an unusable condition. I thought I'd try installing the ICA Client. This worked fine but I realised that this is different to using just the browser plugin - I will look at this later. So I uninstalled the ICA Client via the Control Panel. I've tried many things to get this client all working as before and in fact have managed to do so with Netscape 3 but IE5 complains that it doesn't know what viewer to use with an application/x-ica file type - even going to the Demo Room and allowing the plugin installation to happen again.

tia ... Peter

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Have you checked the docs at

http://hqextsrvsft01.citrix.com/cgi...,ST=207,N=0009,K=15710,SXI=11,Case=obj(12050)

There is a section in the PDF document on Deploying the web client.

Hope this helps

 

[mulawa1]

Thanks for the reply CE - yes I have been through the Admin Guide several times ) In the meantime, I've been lucky enough to find another Citrix site in my town and hope to visit there soon.

To anyone following this thread, the link in the previous reply is simply the MetaFrame XP Administrator's Guide which comes with the product - note that the "(12050)" must be added to the url for it to work as intended.

Cheers ... Peter

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Sorry it's another link, but have you checked the NFuse docs?

http://hqextsrvsft01.citrix.com/cgi...1,ST=117,N=0012,K=10082,SXI=15,Case=obj(9435)

**Checked in preview, and the (9435) gets detached, so you'll need to add that too :-( **

There's a section in here that explains how it works.


Hope this helps