Running a Published App actually starts a desktop instead

[Pritch5000]

This is a new installation of Windows 2003 TS with Citrix MetaFrame v3. The farm is existing but this is a new server and application.

The configured application starts perfectly ok on the desktop but specifying it as a published application doesnt work - it just gives a desktop instead and gives a pop up box saying about starting Windows Explorer in a seamless session.

Anyone got any ideas as I'm finding it tricky to search on the problem. Thanks

 

[ascotta]

How have you published it.

If explorer starts then you get a desktop, sounds like that is what is happening.

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[Pritch5000]

Thanks for your reply.

But no I am not specifically starting Windows Explorer. I am publishing an .exe file (its a propreitory app so you wont have heard of it - but it does work because it has been published a million times before (approximately -lol!).

Any more ideas greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[ascotta]

I've told you amillion times not to exaggerate!

Here is what to do if the exe doesn't run.

Put it in a batch file and publish the batch file, Iv'e done that about a million times too.

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Scott

 

[Pritch5000]

I will try that for testing but I can't run live with it... I have to find the solution. I am wondering whether this has anything to do with an incomplete SSL config.

Thanks and any more ideas most welcome?

 

[Pritch5000]

Have done some checking...

It doesnt matter what I publish! Even stuff like the CMC, Shadow Taskbar, batch files, everything (literally).

Doesnt matter what I publish or how, when you doubleclick the icon in PN, you get a rather poor quality looking desktop and a message about running Windows Explorer in a seamless session.

I have removed SLL and encryption config too.

Any more ideas?

 

[bran2235]

Is this app installed locally? ...curious
Is this server part of any other published app? or only your unique one?

 

[Pritch5000]

Sorry I dont understand your q's.

The important app is installed (add/remove if thats what you mean by locally) on the citrix server. Actually it is installed on the 2 new servers.

The two new servers are not sharing any apps with any other servers in the farm.

All applications (on these servers but no the earlier ones I am told) have this exact same problem and when I say all apps I mean evrything I try (see above), so the problem isnt this mission-critical app.

I have nothing to do with the other servers and have no rights to them either (domain user & local admin rights on the new boxes)

Keep the thoughts coming - thanks

 

[ascotta]

I saw this at a client site once. It was the users profile that was doing it for some reason. I deleted their Terminal services profile and it fixed it. I also re-installed the client, but that did not fix it.

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Scott

 

[Pritch5000]

Hi Scott thanks for your reply (I only just got it now).

We were looking at profiles and domain authentication so I tried it with a local account and it does the same thing. I dont have access to the domain configuration.

There are two publications of CMC in this farm, mine and theirs. Theirs works and mine doesnt, so I compared and the only thing different is that theirs and mine are published to different servers. So I pointed mine at their server and it worked.

So whatever this is has somehting to do with my server not the farm, not user authentication.

Trouble is I didnt build this server from scratch, I got it when the OS and Citrix were installed.

Any more ideas?

 

[ascotta]

Could mean that the CMC is not installed at the right location on your servers, if you go into a desktop on your server and run it from a command prompt does that work ?

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Scott

 

[Pritch5000]

Thanks for all your help but the answer turned out to be somehting very differnet. When I was given the server something was unticked and I didnt think to look there because I dont use that config!

In the Citrix Connction Configuration - ICA-TCP - Advanced tab, we have got a check-box to either specify an 'Initial Program' or 'Inherit' the setting.

The check-box was unticked but no initial program was specified. So just like a Custom ICA connection, a desktop is started. Obvious when you know the answer!

 

[ascotta]

That would do it, yup.

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Cheers
Scott

 

[Pritch5000]

CTX644401 for more info and more troubleshooting tips on this.