15.4 Installing the Citrix ICA and Microsoft RDP Client to Workstations

Whenever Novell Application Launcher™, the Novell Application Launcher plug-in, or the ZENworks Launch gadget launches a terminal server application, it uses the Citrix ICA or Microsoft RDP client to create the client session with the terminal server. This requires that the ICA and RDP client be installed on each user’s workstation.

ICA Client

The workstation must have either the ICA Program Neighborhood (PN) client or the ICA Web client installed. If the PN client or Web client is not already installed on your users’ workstations:

  1. Download the PN client or the Web client files from the Citrix Download Clients site.

  2. Distribute the client files to each workstation. To do so:

    1. Follow the installation instructions in the Citrix Administrator’s Guide, or use Novell Application Launcher to distribute the client files.

    2. (Conditional) If you are using the ZENworks Launch gadget, copy the Web client (wficat.cab) file to the following location on your portal server:

      tomcat\webapps\nps\portal\gadgets\com.novell.ondemand.gadgets.zenlaunchgadget\bin

      or

      For the PN client, rename the file to wficat.cab and copy it to the location listed above.

      When a user launches a terminal server application that you've configured to run in an ICA client session, the Launch gadget uses the .cab file to install the Web client. After that occurs, users can launch ICA applications from Novell Application Launcher, the Novell Application Launcher plug-in, and the ZENworks Launch gadget.

      For information about using the ZENworks Launch gadget, see Section 14.0, Installing the ZENworks Launch Gadget

RDP Client

The Microsoft RDP 5.1 client (msrdp.ocx) is included with the ZENworks Desktop Management Agent and the ZENworks Launch gadget. During installation of the Desktop Management Agent, msrdp.ocx is installed to the c:\program files\novell\zenworks directory. With the ZENworks Launch gadget, when a user launches a terminal server application that you’ve configured to run in an RDP client session, the Launch gadget installs the msrdp.ocx file to the c:\program files\novell\zenworks directory.