Nfuse/Published apps on mapped drives

[Ashaman074]

Hi,

We have Windows 2000 & Metaframe XP. We have Nfuse configured as well, and I have published some of our applications for our employees to use. However, some of the applications are network apps (the exe files reside on a mapped drive) rather than local (residing on the Citrix server) installations.

However, in the Citrix Managements Console, when you try to publish apps, it will only look to the local hard drive, you cannot browse to mapped network drives!

I found a way around this by publishing a local app (such as Notepad), then editing the properties and entering the path the the app I want to run. This works fine, however I am unable to use the correct icons (because I cannot browse to mapped drives).

Anyone else had this problem or found a solution?

TIA!

 

[CitrixEngineer]

This is the way the CMC works; it only browses ICA/IMA servers, since it was only designed to publish applications that run on a Citrix server.

If the network app was on a W2k box (I suspect it's not ), you could install MetaFrame XP and thus be able to browse for it.

Otherwise, your batch file solution is the only way I can think of to get this to work. As for the icon, maybe you could copy the executable to a local drive and point the icon location in the shortcut to it? A bit clunky, but it would probably do the trick.

I hope this helps

 

[Ashaman074]

Thanks for the reply!

Actualy, yes both of these machines are W2K machines; one is running Active directory, and the Citrix server is functioning as a member server.

I am unable to browse to the program locations though. I do have a "browse" button, however it only lists local drives.

If I have no choice, then I suppose I will just continue with the manual pathname entry thing....I just can't understand why it would be this way. Especially since apparently it WILL work if I jump through the necessary hoops! Networked apps are pretty darned common; I would
think that Citrix would have forseen this happening.

Thanks for the input!

 

[Ogi]

Hi,

Are you running them Anonymously? If so, your breaking Microsoft's Licensing Agreement! You are not allowed to make network connections!

However:-

Have you tried Subst'ing the drive and trying it that way, if not, why can the programs not be copied to the Citrix server and then run it from the networked drive?

Does this help any?
Ogi