Citrix Server
Thursday Jun 28, 2007
I do a lot of work with Sun Ray's. Many of our clients use Sun Ray's to display windows desktops through Citrix. While I have set this up many times, and understand how the Citrix Solaris client works, I really don't have a good understanding of Citrix. I learn by doing and it was recently pointed out to me that Citrix has a developer program now. With some pointers from one of my co-workers I am going to take a stab at getting a Citrix Server up and running.
Citrix Requires Terminal Services. Go to Start->Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs. Click on the windows component icon. Add terminal services. On the license button, I checked 120 days. Will need to figure out a license later. Restarting the server.
Now I am getting an error message about Terminal Server being past its license period and it needs a license server. So much for the 120 day eval... I have gone back to add windows components and am installing the license server, per the helpful pop up window.
The license server is installed and the directions are saying to go to administrative tools -> Terminal Service Licensing. A Microsoft Management Console has popped up, and the server is not activated. Of the course the drop down has a choice to activate. I select it and off it goes to ask Microsoft it it can be activated. Microsoft has given me the okay and it is now asking me to install my activation code. Note to people at Microsoft, black ink on a dark green sticker is very hard to read. After a couple of tries do to typo's it has accepted the code and my terminal server is licensed.
Start by Install the licensing server. This component can run on its own server, but for the lab we are putting it on the same server. During the install make sure to install the License Management Console and License Server. I choose IIS as the web server since it was already installed.
Next install the Citrix Presentation server. Take all the defaults. Next install the Management Console. Again take the defaults. Next install Citrix Web Interface Wizard. Again take the defaults, including do not install the clients. Next came the Citrix Presentation Server. Again I took all of the defaults. Finally came the Citrix Documentation center and again I took the defaults. The install has finished and a reboot has been requested.
After the reboot I have tried to log into the licensing server. I am getting an error message about not authenticating. I quick search of the Citrix forums turned up this thread. There are many suggests in the thread but the one that did it for me was this one.
Edit C:\Program Files\Citrix\Licensing\LMC\Tomcat\conf\tomcat-users.xml and make sure the following line has the correct information
<user username="username" password="" fullName="John Doe LMC" roles="lmc-access-role,lmc-current-usage-role,lmc-historical-usage-role,lmc-configuration-role,lmc-user-admin-role"/>
Mine did not. After correcting it and restarting the license server I am in. Click on the configuration tab and it will allow you to add the license you got from Citrix.
Next we need to publish a desktop. Start the Citrix Access Management Console. Under Presentation Server you will see the farm that you have created. Expand that and you will see applications. Select new and a wizard will start. Take the defaults accept where noted below.
Display name is important. It is what the clients will look for.
Choose Server Desktop since we are publishing a desktop.
Pick the server to publish from. I selected the one and only server in my farm.
Pick users. Select configured users and add administrators.
Select configure advanced Then on the appearance click on Full Screen and High Color.
With the desktop published, use a Citrix client. I used the the Solaris client on my Sun Ray server was able to connect!
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