• What is it?
• How do I connect?
  • UNIX
  • Windows
• What software is available?
• How do I disconnect?

Citrix is a company that makes a product called MetaFrame, later called Program Neighborhood, which the NRAO has available for Solaris, Linux and Windows. The MetaFrame product uses the ICA protocol to connect to a Windows server and display a remote login session. Each NRAO site - aoc, gb, cv - has a Windows server to which one can establish a remote login session. These servers are named %lt;site%gt;citrixa. For example, the citrix server at the AOC is called aoccitrixa.

What all this means is that you can use common Windows programs such as Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Pro from your office computer without having them installed on your office computer. You don't even need to have Windows installed, you can use either Solaris or Linux.

Simply type citrix in a UNIX shell. A Citrix ICA Client window should then appear.

If you don't see any server names like aoccitrixa or gbcitrixa listed, click on the new file icon in the upper left. A Properties window will appear. Type the name of the server you wish to use in the Description: and Server: boxes twords the bottom (e.g. aoccitrixa, gbcitrixa or cvcitrixa) Then click OK.

Select the server to which you wish to connect and click on the yellow lightning bolt.

Windows

Start the program by clicking on Start -> All Programs -> Citrix ICA Client -> Citrix Program Neighborhood

If you don't see any server names like aoccitrixa or gbcitrixa in the window that pops up, double click on Add ICA Connection. Select Local Area Network for the type of connection. Enter a description for the ICA Connection and enter the name of the Ctrix MetaFrame server (e.g. aoccitrixa, gbcitrixa or cvcitrixa). Choose the default Encryption Level. Just click Next when it asks for User name and Domain. Choose the default display options. Just click Next when it asks for Application and Working Directory.

To change screen resolution, click File -> Custom Connection Settings, select the Default Options tab and change Window Colors: to True Color (24 bit) and change Window Size: to 1024X768.

Double-click the server to which you wish to connect.

Disk space on aoccitrixa is limited so please save your data on in your filehost area. We suggest mapping your filehost area the first time you connect. You can do this via Start -> Run then type net use z: \\filehost\<username>

• Adobe Acrobat 7.0.8 Professional
• Adobe Illustrator 10
• Mainsaver 8.2.002.000
• MATLAB 6.5.1
• Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
• Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003
• Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003
• Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106
• WordPerfect Office 2002
• WinZip 9.0 SR-1

Whether you connected from a UNIX or a Windows computer the method to disconnect is to logout of the remote Windows computer via Start -> Log off... and then exit the Citrix window.

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