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See, that's just the attitude that the IT department takes when telling the CEO they need to deploy a Citrix solution. But heck, you can probably get your IT dep't to give you a honkin' big quad-core laptop because you need to run their Citrix client. After all, they've got lots of money, right?

My IT dept punted when asked about Linux. "We don't support it, and don't bother us with it again". I made Citrix work myself on my EeePC, but I don't need it badly enough to deal with making it work on an N800. That sounds too painful to endure.

Translated: "We got our jobs by getting our Microsoft certifications, and Linux wasn't covered in any of those courses."

Yeah, that's probably a pretty accurate translation. Most IT people seem to be pretty clueless, overall.

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything gets treated like a nail... and, if that doesn't work, then it's unsupported.

Citrix isn't "big honking".. Have you ever used it? We have an App server that publishes various apps (as in, *just* the app, not the entire desktop) and desktops. It runs fine locally and remotely as well. In fact, until recenly I used it to do work in the office as well as at home. We have clients running on low spec PC's over a standard internet connection to our data centre. They also use published apps.

Ignoring the technicalities of the protocol, I've used Citrix, RDP and VNC over similarly specc's connections (PC ANywhere too) and Citrix is by far the nicest overall option.

Heck, I used to use a P2 450 with 256MB RAM running Windows 2000 SP4 to connect to the Citrix server.

Sorry to dig up an old topic.

Based off Benson's ideas from the 1st page, I've setup x forwarding from a linux box to my tablet, rather than RDP or VNC. I'm able to launch firefox over SSH and login the citrix servers at work. This is where things breakdown, it appears X won't forward the graphics from a ica session. I end up with a black screen or box where there should be an app. I know it's running (I'm the Citrix admin, so I can check these things on the server at work) the Windows taskbar icons unique to our environment show up in the top status bar section on the tablet (which is wild in itself) but I can't get past the black screen.

I'm googled out at the moment and need some lunch, but always open to suggestions. I'd rather not use RDP or VNC as I prefer to come in via SSH through my firewall on a non-standard port.

you can use a nonstandard port for ssh using the -p argument, and thus for vnc tunneled through ssh. But about Citrix: It is the defacto remote application in the corporate world. Many people have no choice. But I guess we have to wait for the next iteration of the tablet for usable Java performance.

I have the -p sorted out. I'm able to run apps on my linux box no problem and forward them over x (-X in ssh). I hadn't thought of using vnc rather than x forwarding. That may get the ica applications to display correctly.

Sadly yes, Citrix is the corporate defacto. We have a vpn I would rdp through, but the client is activex or java, and the java client doesn't work on the tablet. Hell, it hardly works on regular linux

Just wanted to follow up. I have it working.

I enabled vnc on my Linux box at home. So now I ssh into it and launch firefox, than Citrix, and it works. I can than RDP through my citrix server to my utility machine at work (a VM on ESX server running essential apps)

The command I ultimately use is:

ssh -C -X -p <my custom port> <username>@<domain.name> vncviewer localhost

This grants me a full on desktop environment via SSH. (Ubuntu for the record)