Light Slax (119 Mo) + Citrix Receiver for Linux 12.0 in 10 minutes ;-)

Hello,

First of all, I wanted to upload an updated version of the Citrix Receiver module but module submission is actually disabled on slax.org.

So, here is a quick and dirty step by step to have a light bootable linux distro + Citrix Receiver 12.0 to access your XenApp or XenDesktop farms:

  1. Go to http://www.slax.org/build.php and select only Core, Xorg and KDE (you probably can do it even lighter but 119Mo was ok for me :) )
  2. Boot Slax
  3. Open Konqueror and surf to www.citrix.com and download Citrix Receiver 12.0 in tar.gz version
  4. In terminal, run : tar xvzf linuxx86-12.0.0.189834.tar.gz
  5. Always in terminal, launch :   ./setupwfc to begin the installation of the receiver (always answer y to have it installed in /opt/Citrix/ICAClient)
  6. Use Konqueror to login to your Web Interface, click on your published app/desktop
  7. Choose /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/wfica to open the file
  8. That’s it, enjoy your work ;-)

If you need more info/help about the receiver 12.0 for linux, you have the complete manual on Citrix eDocs

Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6

Hi all,

I will begin to read this new book from Packt Publishing on my favorite subject : Citrix XenApp :)

If you are impatient, you can already read a review of one of my colleague here

You can find the book description here

Stay tuned :)

OpenVPN 2 Cookbook – Review and Free copy available for reviewers !

Hi all,

As I told you in my last post, I was asked to review the OpenVPN 2 Cookbook from Packt.

First of all, I would like to thanks Ananjan Chaudhuri who contacted me an offered me a free electronic copy of this book for the review. The contact were really kind and professional !

As a bonus, he mentioned me that any reader  that would like to review the book, can contact him to have access to an electronic copy  !

About the book itself, it’s 100% what it’s supposed to be : A Cookbook and no more, no less :)

The book is organized in recipes that will cover most of the uses of OpenVPN and give concretes examples. For the review, I forced myself to follow it to configure a VPN connection for a customer and I had almost all the info required.

Obviously, you will need to know the basics of Networking, VPN’s and certificates but it’s certainly a resource I will keep in my toolbox to refresh my mind when I need it :)

Voilà, feel free to comment or contact me as usual if you need more info !

OpenVPN 2 Cookbook

Hi all,

Just wanted to share with you that I am currently reading the OpenVPN 2 Cookbook from Packt and will be back with a quick review as soon as I’ve finished it.

You can find a sample chapter here … stay tuned :)

Receiver for iPad “Wireless Trackpad” demo

Impressive demo on what Citrix Receiver will be on iPad with the possibility to use your iPhone as a trackpad !

http://community.citrix.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=133005705

Pushing the Limits of Windows articles

Mark Russinovich (one of the creators of sysinternals) posted on is blog 5 articles on different aspect of Windows performance.

They really technical and very detailed. Definately a MUST READ !

Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Memory
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Paged and Nonpaged Pool
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Processes and Threads
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Handles

Slax Module Citrix Receiver 11.000 added

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Hello,

I just created/added a new module to Slax for the 11.000 Citrix Receiver.

With Slax and this module, you will have a bootable USB Disk with access to your XenApp/XenDesktop in 15 minutes !

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Citrix Receiver for iPhone available on AppStore !!!

Just search on “Citrix Receiver” on the AppStore and there you go :)

More info : http://community.citrix.com/display/xa/Citrix+Receiver

Activate NFS Support on QNAP TS-209 II

 

Not difficult but even more easy with the nice post of George Zhu

You can find his tutorial here : George Zhu’s Blog

Citrix plugin (client :) ) for iPhone !!

The iPhone Plugin becomes really concrete now with even a ship schedule !

Right now the ship schedule is first half of ’09 , but keep those votes and use cases coming and help us increase the priority further !

You can see here a video on the copy/paste feature and the file browser :

Source : Citrix Blog

And HERE you can find the iPhone plugin blog aka Project Braeburn!

Qnap, Windows, DeltaCopy, Rsync and Unicode/UTF-8 : it’s working !

I was used to use robocopy to backup my XP machine to the Qnap NAS and I was really missing rsync’s speed …

Now I finally have a working solution based on rsync with a really nice GUI provided by DeltaCopy and, most important for me, special character support (accents and so on) !!!

Steps are :

  1. Allow remote Rsync server to back up data to NAS on the Qnap’s Remote Replication menu
  2. Install DeltaCopy on your Windows Machine and configure your backup task (plus you can receive a log by mail, schedule the task, add rsync parameters, …)
  3. Replace the cygwin.dll located in the DeltaCopy folder with the one found on Okisoft’s website (with UTF-8 support)
  4. It’s done :)

Enjoy fast and easy backup ;-)

How-to Install the Citrix Client (plugin ;-) ) on Ubuntu

The most downloaded and best rated Citrix tools

Dmitry Vostokov, the famous webmaster of http://www.dumpanalysis.org/, has just posted a summary of the most downnloaded and best rated Citrix Tools !

You can find this list HERE

Process Monitor v2.0 availabe !

From the author :

This major update to Process Monitor adds real-time TCP and UDP monitoring to its existing process, thread, DLL, file system and registry monitoring. You can now see the TCP and UDP activity processes performed, including the operation (e.g. connect, send, receive), local and remote IP addresses and DNS names, and operation transfer lengths. On Windows Vista, Process Monitor also collects thread stacks for network operations.

Very good tool when you need to troubleshoot file/registry access and now some netwoking issues !

Download it from http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessMonitor.zip

Or use it directly from http://live.sysinternals.com/Procmon.exe

Public Citrix Symbol Server

The Citrix Escalation team is pleased to announce the new Citrix Symbol Server. The Citrix Symbol Server provides on-demand access to public Citrix symbol files from any machine connected to the Internet. Prior to the symbol server, public symbol packages had to be downloaded over the Internet and copied to the local computer before debugging could be performed.  Additionally, customers routinely had to upload large dump files to Citrix’s FTP site before analysis could begin. We are excited to leverage this new resource to decrease problem resolution time and drive seamless cross-vendor collaboration.

Usage

To access debug symbols for the Citrix XenApp products – simply add the Citrix Symbol Server to the symbol path in your debugging tool of choice:

example: SRV*<your local symbol folder>*http://ctxsym.citrix.com/symbols

Reference article CTX118622 – How to Use the Citrix Symbol Server to Obtain Debug Symbols