Web Interface Guide
Web Interface Guide
Web Interface Guide
Web Interface for MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.2 Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite
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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 How to Use this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Finding More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Accessing Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Adding the Latest Version of the Guide to the Document Center . . . . . . 11 Introducing the Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 The Web Interface Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 MetaFrame Presentation Server Sites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Program Neighborhood Agent Services Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Conferencing Manager Guest Attendee Sites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Management Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Application Access Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Client Deployment Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Whats New. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Integration with the Access Gateway with Advanced Access Control . . 15 Enhanced Content Redirection Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Web Interface Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Server Farms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Web Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Client Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 How the Web Interface Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 What to Do Next. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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On Windows Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 On UNIX Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 User Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Personal Digital Assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 MetaFrame Presentation Server Client Device Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Installing the Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Installation Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Installing the Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Upgrading an Existing Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Performance Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Installing the Web Interface on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Installing the Web Interface on UNIX Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using Conferencing Manager on UNIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Installation Using the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Using Language Packs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Removing Language Packs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Deploying Languages to Users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 What to Do Next. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Configure and Run Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Creating Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Creating Sites on UNIX Web Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Specifying Site Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Using Site Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Troubleshooting the Web Interface Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Using the Repair Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Uninstalling the Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Uninstalling the Web Interface on Microsoft IIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Uninstalling the Web Interface on UNIX Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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Performing Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Managing Server Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Configuring Server Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Configuring Settings for All Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Specifying Advanced Server Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Configuring Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Methods of Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Authentication Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Enabling Smart Card Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Enabling Pass-Through Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Enabling Explicit or Prompt Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Two-Factor Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Enabling Secure Computing SafeWord on IIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 SafeWord Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 SafeWord Agent for the Web Interface Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Enabling SafeWord Authentication Using the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Enabling RSA SecurID 6.0 Authentication on IIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 SecurID Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Adding the Server Running the Web Interface as an Agent Host . . . . . . 62 Copying the sdconf.rec File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Enabling RSA SecurID Authentication Using the Console . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Node Secret Registry Key Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 RSA SecurID Multiple Domain Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Enabling RSA SecurID 6.0 Windows Password Integration . . . . . . . . . . 64 Enabling Two-Factor Authentication on UNIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Enabling RADIUS with SafeWord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Enabling RADIUS with RSA SecurID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Adding the Web Interface and RADIUS Servers as Agent Hosts . . . . . . 65 Creating a Shared Secret for RADIUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Enabling RADIUS Two-Factor Authentication Using the Console. . . . . 66 Using RADIUS Challenge Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Using Customized Challenge Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Changing Session Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Managing Application Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Managing Server Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Customizing the Appearance for Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Managing Secure Client Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Editing DMZ Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Editing Secure Gateway Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
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Editing Address Translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Displaying Secure Client Access Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Managing Client Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Remote Desktop Connection Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Configuring Installation Captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Compatibility with Asian Language Web Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Customizing the Client for Java Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Editing Client-Side Proxy Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Managing Client Connection Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Managing Client Configuration Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Using Application Refresh Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Configuring Workspace Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Feature Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Using Workspace Control with Integrated Authentication Methods . . . . 87 Enabling Workspace Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Controlling Diagnostic Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Load Balancing Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Using Local Site Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Managing Configuration Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Repairing and Unstalling Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Importing and Exporting Configuration Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Configuring the Web Interface Using the Configuration File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Program Neighborhood Agent Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Configuring Communication with MetaFrame Presentation Server . . . 106 Configuring Citrix SSL Relay Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Configuring Secure Gateway Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Disabling Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Making the Web Interface Available to Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Making the Log In Page the Default on IIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 What to Do Next. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
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Configuring SmartAccess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 On the Server Running Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 On the Server Running Advanced Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 On Both Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Creating Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Differences in the Access Suite Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Configuring Workspace Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Configuring Java Client Fallback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Configuring Session Time-Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
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Server Running the Web Interface/MetaFrame Presentation Server Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Recommendations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Using Citrix SSL Relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Enabling the Server Running the Web Interface on the MetaFrame Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Using the HTTPS Protocol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Client Session/MetaFrame Presentation Server Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Recommendations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Use SSL/TLS or ICA Encryption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Use Secure Gateway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 General Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
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Overview
Welcome to the Web Interface for MetaFrame Presentation Server. This chapter introduces you to the documentation and to the Web Interface. Topics include: How to Use this Guide Introducing the Web Interface Whats New
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Accessing Documentation
This administrators guide is part of the MetaFrame Presentation Server documentation set. The documentation set includes online guides that correspond to different features of MetaFrame Presentation Server. Online documentation is provided as Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Use the Document Center to access the complete set of online guides. The Document Center provides a single point of access to the documentation that enables you to go straight to the section of documentation that you need. The Document Center includes: A list of common tasks and a link to each item of documentation. A search function that covers all the PDF guides. This is useful when you need to consult a number of different guides. Cross-references between documents. You can move between documents as often as you need using the links to other guides and the links to the Document Center.
Important To view, search, and print the PDF documentation, you need to have Acrobat Reader 5.0.5 with Search or a later version with Search. You can download Acrobat Reader for free from Adobe Systems Web site at http://www.adobe.com/. If you prefer to access the guides without using the Document Center, you can navigate to the component PDF files using Windows Explorer. If you prefer to use printed documentation, you can also print each guide from Acrobat Reader. More information about Citrix documentation, and details about how to obtain further information and support, is included in Getting Started with MetaFrame Presentation Server.
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For more information about Conferencing Manager, see the MetaFrame Conferencing Manager Administrators Guide.
Management Features
Multiple server farm support. You can configure multiple server farms and provide users with a display of the applications available to them from all farms. You can configure each server farm individually using the Manage server farms task. For more information, see Configuring Communication with MetaFrame Presentation Server on page 106. Complete administrative control over application deployment. Web server-side scripting lets you configure all MetaFrame Presentation Server Client options in server-side scripts and ICA files. Integration with popular Web technologies. The Web Interfaces API can be accessed from Microsofts ASP.NET and Sun Microsystems JavaServer Pages. Novell Directory Services (NDS) support. The Web Interface Log In page for NDS contains a context field, allowing users to search for their user name in the tree to determine which context they are in.
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Active Directory and user principal name (UPN) support. All Web Interface components are compatible with Microsoft Active Directory. Users visiting MetaFrame Presentation Server sites can log on to server farms that are part of an Active Directory deployment and seamlessly access published applications. The logon pages are compatible with Active Directorys use of User Principal Names.
Security Features
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) support. The Web Interface supports SSL to secure communication between the server running the Web Interface and server farms. Implementing SSL on your Web server together with Web browsers that support SSL ensures the security of data as it travels through your network. The Web Interface uses Microsoft's Schannel security protocol on Windows platforms for MetaFrame Presentation Server sites. This protocol uses FIPS 140 validated cryptography, a standard required by some organizations. For more information about FIPS 140 validation, see the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Web site (http://csrc.nist.gov/ cryptval/). Secure Gateway for MetaFrame Presentation Server support. The Secure Gateway, together with the Web Interface, provides a single, secure, encrypted point of access through the Internet to servers on your internal corporate networks. The Secure Gateway simplifies certificate management, because a server certificate is required only on the Secure Gateway server, rather than on every server in the server farm.
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Ticketing. This feature provides enhanced authentication security. The Web Interface obtains tickets that authenticate users to published applications. Tickets have a configurable expiration period and are valid for a single logon. After use, or after expiration, a ticket is invalid and cannot be used to access applications. Use of ticketing eliminates the explicit inclusion of credentials in the ICA files the Web Interface uses to launch applications.
Whats New
The Web Interface offers the following new enhancements and features in this release:
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Navigation page integration. Administrators can now embed a MetaFrame Presentation Server site in the Advanced Access Control default navigation page. Users then access their network resources, such as Web sites, email, and applications, directly. This removes the requirement to publish a MetaFrame Presentation Server site as a link accessed from the default navigation page. For more information and configuration instructions, see Configuring SmartAccess for the Web Interface on page 109 and the Access Gateway with Advanced Access Control Administrators Guide.
Server Farms
A server farm is a group of servers managed as a single entity. A server farm is composed of a number of servers operating together to serve applications to MetaFrame Presentation Server Client users. Important among a server farms standard capabilities is application publishing. This is an administrative task that lets administrators make available to users specific applications hosted by the server farm. When an administrator publishes an application for a group of users, that application becomes available as an object to which clients can connect and initiate client sessions. The Program Neighborhood Client interface automates the client-side configuration process by eliminating the need for administrators or client users to browse the network for published applications. Using Program Neighborhood, users can log on to the server farm and receive a customized list of applications published for their individual user name. This list of applications is called an application set.
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The server running the Web Interface functions as a Program Neighborhood interface for connecting to one or more server farms. The server running the Web Interface queries server farms for application set information and then formats the results into HTML pages that users can view in a Web browser. To communicate with server farms, the server running the Web Interface communicates with the Citrix XML Service running on one or more servers. The Citrix XML Service is a MetaFrame component that provides published application information to clients and servers running the Web Interface using TCP/IP and HTTP. This service functions as the contact point between the server farm and the server running the Web Interface. The Citrix XML Service is installed with MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows, and MetaFrame Presentation Server for UNIX Operating Systems.
Web Server
The Web server hosts the Web Interface classes and Web server-side scripts. The Web Interface classes provide the following services: Authenticate users to a server farm or farms Retrieve application information, including a list of applications a user can access
The Web Interface classes are added to your Web server during installation. This installation program also adds Web pages and configuration files.
Client Device
In the context of the Web Interface, a client device is any computing appliance capable of executing a MetaFrame Presentation Server Client and a Web browser. Client devices include desktop PCs and network computers, among others. In a client device, the browser and client work together as a viewer and engine. The browser lets users view application sets (created by server-side scripting on the server running the Web Interface) while the client acts as the engine that launches published applications. The Web Interface provides Web-based client installation. Web-based client installation is a method of deploying clients from a Web site. When a user visits a site created with the Web Interface, the Web-based client installation code detects the device and the Web browser prompts the user to install an appropriate client. In the case of Windows devices, Web-based client installation can also detect the presence or absence of an installed client and prompt the user only if necessary. See Automatically Deploying Clients on page 75 for more information. The Web Interface supports many browser/client combinations. For a complete list of supported browser/client combinations, see MetaFrame Presentation Server Client Device Requirements on page 27.
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This diagram shows an example of a typical Web Interface interaction. The browser on the client device sends information to the Web server, which communicates with the server farm to allow users to access their applications.
1. Client device users utilize a Web browser to view the Login page and enter their user credentials. 2. The Web server reads users credentials and uses the Web Interface classes to forward the information to the Citrix XML Service on servers in the server farms. The designated server acts as a broker between the Web server and servers. 3. The Citrix XML Service on the designated server then retrieves a list of applications from the servers that users can access. These applications comprise the users application set. The Citrix XML Service retrieves the application set from the Independent Management Architecture (IMA) system and Program Neighborhood Service, respectively. In a farm running MetaFrame Presentation Server for UNIX, the Citrix XML Service on the designated server uses information gathered from the ICA browser and the local Web Interface configuration file to determine which applications the user can access. The Citrix XML Service then returns the users application set information to the Web Interface classes running on the server. 4. The user initiates the next step by clicking one of the hyperlinks in the HTML page. 5. The Citrix XML Service is contacted to locate the server in the farm that is the least busy. The XML Service requests a ticket from the least busy server corresponding to the users credentials. The XML Service returns the least-busy servers address and ticket to the Web Interface
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6. The classes finish parsing the template file and send a customized file to the Web browser. 7. The Web browser receives the file and passes it to the client device. 8. The client receives the file and initiates a client session with a server according to the files connection information.
What to Do Next
For information about system requirements, instructions for installing the Web Interface, and configuring the server running the Web Interface, see Deploying the Web Interface on page 21.
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Overview
This chapter explains how to install the Web Interface on your server and configure the server to run the Web Interface. Topics include: System Requirements Installing the Web Interface What to Do Next Installing the Web Interface on UNIX Platforms Troubleshooting the Web Interface Installation Uninstalling the Web Interface
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System Requirements
The following section describes server, Web server, and client device requirements for the Web Interface.
Server Requirements
To run the Web Interface, your servers must meet the following requirements.
The Web Interface operates with these MetaFrame Presentation Server versions on all of their supported platforms. For a list of supported platforms, see the appropriate MetaFrame Presentation Server documentation. Citrix recommends that you have the latest version of the service pack installed on your system.
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NDS authentication
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MetaFrame Presentation Server Requirements MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 or later MetaFrame XP Feature Release 2 MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 or later MetaFrame 1.8 Feature Release 1 MetaFrame XP 1.0 MetaFrame for UNIX 1.1 N/A MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 or later MetaFrame 1.8 Feature Release 1 MetaFrame XP 1.0 MetaFrame for UNIX 1.1 MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 or later MetaFrame XP Feature Release 2 N/A MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 or later MetaFrame XP Feature Release 2 N/A MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 or later MetaFrame 1.8 Feature Release 1 MetaFrame XP 1.0 MetaFrame for UNIX 1.1 Feature Release 1
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6.0 or later for SOCKS 6.30 or later for Secure Proxy N/A
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Provided by the Web Interface Full Program Neighborhood Client for Win32/Program Neighborhood Agent 6.20 or later Provided by the Web Interface 6.20.986 or later
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On Windows Platforms
You can use the Web Interface on the following Windows platforms and servers: Internet Information Services 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 Internet Information Services 5.0 on Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 .NET Framework 1.1 with Service Pack 1 (Windows 2000 systems only) Visual J# .NET 1.1 ASP.NET
The following software must be installed prior to installing the Web Interface:
On Windows 2000 systems, ASP.NET is installed with the .NET Framework if IIS was previously installed. If IIS is not installed, you must install IIS and reinstall the Framework, or install IIS and run the aspnet_regiis -i command in the WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322 directory.
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Note If you receive an internal error message when using the Web Interface on Windows 2000 systems, there may be a problem with the configuration of the .NET accounts. In this case, uninstall the Web Interface, Visual J# .NET, and all versions of the .NET Framework from the server and reinstall the software again. On Windows Server 2003 systems, ASP.NET is installed if you enabled IIS during the installation of Windows Server 2003. Otherwise, you must install IIS and select ASP.NET (which is a subcomponent of IIS). The .NET Framework and J# redistributable files are included on the Server CD-ROM in the Support folder. If your server has a statically configured IP address, you must define the primary DNS suffix or a fully qualified DNS domain name for the server. This can be done on Windows 2000 in My Network places/Local Area Connection Properties/ Internet Protocol properties. CAUTION Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Citrix cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk. To verify correct configuration, check to see if a valid DNS suffix is present in the following registry key value data: Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ Tcpip\ParametersValue: Domain
On UNIX Platforms
You can use the Web Interface with the following UNIX configurations:
Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Edition Red Hat Enterprise Edition Solaris 9 Solaris 9 Server Apache 2.x WebSphere Application Server 5.1 Sun ONE 8 WebLogic Server 8.x JDK Sun 1.4.x WebSphere Sun 1.4.x WebLogic Servlet Engine Tomcat 5.x WebSphere Sun ONE WebLogic
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User Requirements
The following browser and operating system combinations are supported for users to log on to the Web Interface:
Browser Internet Explorer 6.0 or later Safari 1.0 or later Mozilla 1.0 or later Pocket IE 2003 Operating System Windows XP, Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4, Windows 2003 Mac OS X Red Hat Enterprise Edition Pocket PC 2003
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Installation Overview
You install the Web Interface using the MetaFrame Presentation Server CD-ROM. Before installing the Web Interface, you must install the Access Suite Console, and for Windows platforms, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), and ASP.NET. If you install the Web Interface on Windows platforms running in Japanese, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, or Korean, do not log on to Windows with a user name containing multibyte characters. For information about installing the Access Suite Console, see the MetaFrame Presentation Server Administrators Guide.
For more information about how to install the Web Interface, see Performance Considerations on page 29 and Installing the Web Interface on UNIX Platforms on page 31.
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Security Considerations
Citrix recommends that, as with any Windows-based server, you follow Microsoft standard guidelines for configuring your Windows server.
Note If necessary, you can change the port used on the server. For more information, see the appropriate MetaFrame Presentation Server Administrators Guide.
Performance Considerations
If you are deploying the Web Interface to a high number of users, it may be necessary to adjust system and server parameters to increase user scalability.
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CAUTION Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Citrix cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk. On Windows systems, for example, you can increase the following registry value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ Parameters\MaxUserPort This key determines the highest port number TCP can assign when an application requests an available user port from the system. You can increase the default value of 5000 if you have large numbers of concurrent users. Additionally, you can increase the value of maxWorkerThreads and maxIoThreads on the .NET Framework. On Apache or Tomcat, you can adjust the parameters available in httpd.conf (Apache) or server.xml (Tomcat). Citrix recommends that you ensure that the Java heap size on Tomcat is sufficient to support high numbers of users if necessary. The heap size can be increased by passing the Xmxsize parameter to Java at start up. To do this, set or amend the JAVA_OPTS variable in the catalina.sh script on Tomcat.
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To install the Web Interface 1. Log on as an administrator. 2. If you are installing the Web Interface from the MetaFrame Presentation Server CD-ROM, insert the CD-ROM in your Web servers CD-ROM drive. If you downloaded the Web Interface from a download site, copy the file WebInterface.exe to your Web server. Double-click the file. 3. Select your language from the list. The language of your operating system is detected and is displayed as the default selection. Click Next. 4. On the Welcome page, click Next. 5. On the License Agreement page, select I accept the license agreement and click Next. 6. On the Common Components page, browse to a location for the common Web Interface components (the default is C:\Program Files\Citrix\Web Interface). Click Next. 7. On the Clients page, select Install the clients from the Components CD-ROM. Click Browse to search the Components CD-ROM or CD image for the client setup files. Setup copies the contents of the CDs ICAWEB directory to the directory C:\Program Files\Citrix\Web Interface\4.0\ICAWEB that it creates off the Web servers document root. All Web sites created by the installation process assume that the Web server contains the client files in this directory structure. If you do not want to copy the clients to the Web server during Web Interface installation, select Dont install the clients from the Components CD-ROM and you can copy the clients to the server later. 8. Click Next to continue the installation. 9. When the installation is complete, click Finish. 10. Open the Access Suite Console to begin creating and configuring your sites. After installing the Web Interface, you can begin to manage your sites by configuring and running discovery. For more information, see Configure and Run Discovery on page 36.
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Note If you are installing the Web Interface on WebSphere, an Application Security Warnings message is displayed, indicating a problem with the contents of the was.policy file. This is a policy file created by WebSphere if you select Enforce Java 2 Security under Security>Global Security. Ensure that you edit the was.policy in accordance with the WebSphere Java 2 Security policy, otherwise, the Web Interface may not function properly. This policy file is located in WEBSPHERE_HOME/AppServer/installedApps/node-name/ war-file-name.ear/META-INF. The Web Interface requires a servlet engine to work on UNIX platforms. The Apache Web server requires an additional servlet engine to support the Web Interface such as Tomcat (note that Tomcat can be used as a standalone Web server or as a servlet engine). To install the Web Interface on Red Hat (Enterprise or Fedora), ensure that the sharutils package is also installed. This is required for the uudecode utility. To install the Web Interface on Tomcat 1. Copy the WebInterface.sh.gz file from the Components CD-ROM Web Interface directory to a temporary location. 2. In a UNIX shell, navigate to the directory where the installation file was downloaded. Unzip the file by typing gunzip WebInterface.sh.gz. 3. Run the installer by typing sh WebInterface.sh. 4. Press Enter to read the EULA. 5. Type Yes to accept the license agreement. 6. Select a site type from the list provided. 7. Specify if you want to use a local configuration (for example, WebInterface.conf) or use the centralized configuration (the Configuration Service). If you select local file, enter the name of the server containing application information. The XML Service must be installed and running on this server. Select an XML Service protocol from the list provided. Specify the port on which the XML Service is listening. If you select Configuration Service, enter the server (name or IP address) on which the Configuration Service is running. Enter the XML port number for the Configuration Service. You can enter multiple Configuration Services and port combinations.
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8. If you are creating a Conferencing Manager Guest Attendee site, enter the External Conference Server location and the port number. Specify if the server is secured with SSL by selecting Yes or No. If you are creating a MetaFrame Presentation Server or Conferencing Manager site, the installer offers to copy the client files from the CD-ROM to the .war file. 9. Enter the path and name of the .war file to create. 10. A summary is displayed. Select Yes if the information displayed is correct. 11. The .war file is created and the clients are copied from the CD-ROM, if required. 12. Follow the instructions on-screen to complete the installation of the .war file.
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After installation, language packs can be added into the Common Files directory on Windows by copying the tree or unpacking the .zip file in that location. To customize a language for a specific site, you can copy the language pack into the sites location and modify it. The site will then use the modified language pack and other sites will continue to use the default. On UNIX, extra language packs can be installed by moving them into the appropriate directory within the site, and by extracting them if they are supplied in formats such as .zip. The installer defaults to the language of the operating system on which it is running, regardless of the language of the CD-ROM used for installation. For example, if you are installing on a French operating system using a German installation CD-ROM, the installer appears in French. The language default can be changed during installation, and this language is used as the default language for sites you create. The English language pack is used as the default language and must always be present on your server.
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After you install the Web Interface, you need to make the Web Interface available to your users. To do this, you create and configure sites using the Access Suite Console or edit the WebInterface.conf configuration file directly. Additionally, you may need to configure the Web Interface depending upon what other components are in your MetaFrame installation, or you may want to customize or extend the Web Interfaces capabilities. For information about how to configure the Web Interface for the Secure Gateway using the Access Suite Console, see Configuring Secure Gateway Support on page 107. For information about how to configure the Web Interface using the console or WebInterface.conf file, see Configuring Sites Using the Console on page 44 or Configuring the Web Interface Using the Configuration File on page 91. For information about security considerations, see Configuring Web Interface Security on page 123. To extend and customize Web Interface functionality, see the Customizing the Web Interface guide.
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6. On the Discovery Progress page, the number of items discovered appears. Click Finish to close this page and begin using the Access Suite Console. After running discovery to connect to a server farm, you can use the Access Suite Console to create sites.
Creating Sites
To create new sites, click Web Interface in the console tree, and click the Create site task. You can add one of the following sites: MetaFrame Presentation ServerFor users accessing published applications using the Web Interface. Program Neighborhood Agent ServicesFor users accessing published applications using the Program Neighborhood Agent. Conferencing Manager Guest AttendeeFor users logging on to Guest Attendee conferences.
You use this task to specify the IIS site, the URL to apply changes, and the configuration source for the site. These options can later be updated using the Local site tasks. You must be a local administrator on the system running the Access Suite Console to create sites. Note If you use centralized configuration, you cannot specify servers from multiple farms. Site configuration can be obtained only from servers on the same farm. When sites are created or edited, a bootstrap configuration file is updated to include the configuration source, default language, and installer-generated site identifier (used by the configuration service). The site identifier is in the form host name:IIS site number:site path:numeric where: host name is the host name of the server IIS site number is the number of the IIS site site path is the path (in the IIS metabase, under the site) of the site numeric ID is a random 128-bit ID
A backslash (\) is used as an escape character in these strings. For UNIX Web servers, host name and site path are dynamically generated, thus the SiteIDRoot field contains only the numeric ID. The site path is the recommended identification of the site obtained from the servlet engine running it, and may vary depending on the servlet engine.
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This chapter explains how to configure and customize the Web Interface using the Access Suite Console and the Web Interface configuration file. Topics include: Deciding Which Configuration Method to Use Configuring Sites Using the Console Making the Web Interface Available to Users
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For information about how to configure the Web Interface using the console, see Configuring Sites Using the Console on page 44 and the Access Suite Console online help. The Web Interface configuration file. The WebInterface.conf file allows you to change many Web Interface properties; it is available on both Windows and UNIX platforms. You can use this file to perform day-to-day administration tasks and customize many more settings. You edit the values in the WebInterface.conf file and save the updated file to apply the changes. For information about configuring the Web Interface using the WebInterface.conf file, see Configuring the Web Interface Using the Configuration File on page 91. The Program Neighborhood Agent configuration file. You can configure the Program Neighborhood Agent using the config.xml file located on the server running the Web Interface. The config.xml file contains a number of parameters divided into the following categories: FolderDisplaySpecifies where to display application icons: in the Start menu, on the Windows desktop, or in the notification area. There are also additional parameters to specify a particular folder in the Start menu and the icon to use on the Windows desktop. This corresponds to the options on the Application Display tab of the Program Neighborhood Agent Properties dialog box. DesktopIntegrationDo not edit.
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Configuration FileAllows you to specify a different URL for config.xml for the client to use in the future. This facilitates moving users to a different server running the Web Interface. RequestSpecifies where the client should request published application data from, and how often to refresh the information. LogonSpecifies the logon method to use. UserInterfaceSpecifies whether to hide or display certain groups of options presented to the user as part of the Program Neighborhood Agent interface. FileCleanupDo not edit. ICA_OptionsSpecifies the audio and video options for client connections. This corresponds to the options on the ICA Options tab of the Program Neighborhood Agent Properties dialog box.
Web server scripts and Java servlets. You can use the Web Interfaces application programming interface (API) to extensively customize your Web Interface site. You can use ASP.NET or JavaServer Pages to write Web server scripts for MetaFrame Presentation Server sites. For more information, see the Customizing the Web Interface guide.
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When using the console, some Web Interface settings may be disabled if their value is not relevant to the current configuration and the corresponding WebInterface.conf settings are reset to their default values. Citrix recommends that you create regular backups of the WebInterface.conf file.
Getting Help
You can display online help for the Web Interface by pressing F1 or by rightclicking any node in the context tree and selecting Help.
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Running Discovery
Before you can start using the console to manage the items in your deployment, you must run discovery, which establishes connections to your server farms. The first time you open the console, you are automatically prompted to start the discovery process: you are guided through selecting the components you want, configuring the discovery process, and finding the items to manage. Using the Configure and run discovery wizard, you specify in which components you want discovery to search for new items, indicate whether or not to retrieve remote configuration for sites installed on your computer, edit configuration servers, and specify farms running MetaFrame Presentation Server. Subsequently, you run the discovery process if you want to discover a component or if items were added to or removed from your deployment. Click Run discovery in the task pane.
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When discovery is complete, existing sites are displayed under the Web Interface in the console tree and you are ready to create new sites and administer existing sites. For example:
This diagram shows an example of the Access Suite Console containing existing sites.
Creating Sites
Using the Create site task, you can create the following site types: MetaFrame Presentation Serverfor users to access applications through a Web browser (the Web Interface) Program Neighborhood Agent Servicesfor users to access applications using Program Neighborhood Agent Conferencing Manager Guest Attendeefor guest users to log on to Conferencing Manager conferences
The Create Site wizard guides you through the process of creating one of these sites, allows you to specify the IIS location in which the site is hosted, specify whether or not the site is the default within the IIS site, and the URL to apply changes, add a location in which the site obtains its configuration, specify how users access MetaFrame Presentation Server sites, and add server farms. The new site is displayed in the console tree after this task is complete.
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To administer the site, click it in the console tree. Site tasks, information, and alerts are displayed in the task pane and details pane. If the configuration server is not available and cannot be contacted, site tasks are not displayed in the console.
Performing Tasks
Tasks that are available for each site type are displayed in the task pane. Tasks are either performed using wizards or by setting options in dialog boxes. To execute a task, either click a task name in the task pane or right-click the site you want to configure and select a task from the menu displayed. Some tasks are available only for certain site types. This information is specified at the beginning of each of the following sections.
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Citrix recommends that you disable user password changing in these situations. If necessary, it is possible to enable password changing in a mixed server farm deployment. The Web Interface contacts server farms in the order in which they are defined until a server farm reports that the password is successfully changed, at which point the process stops. This allows you to specify the server farm to which the change password request will be issued. However, use suitable password replication mechanisms between server farms to ensure that user passwords remain consistent. If the password change request fails, the next server farm in sequence is issued the change password request.
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4. Select the Use the server list for load balancing option. 5. Change the length of time a failed server is bypassed in the Bypass any failed server for box.
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5. If you are using SSL Relay, specify the TCP port of the Citrix SSL Relay in the SSL server port box (the default port is 443). The Web Interface uses root certificates when authenticating a Citrix SSL Relay server. Ensure all the servers running Citrix SSL Relay are configured to listen on the same port number. Note If you are using SSL Relay or HTTPS, ensure the server names you specify match the names on the certificate for the server running MetaFrame. 6. To enable ticketing, select the Enable ICA authentication tickets option. 7. To change the expiration time of tickets, enter appropriate values in the MetaFrame ticket time to live boxes. 8. Click OK to confirm your changes.
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Configuring Authentication
Note The following section is applicable to MetaFrame Presentation Server and Program Neighborhood Agent Services sites. You can use the Configure authentication methods task to configure the ways in which users can authenticate to MetaFrame Presentation Server and the Program Neighborhood Agent.
Methods of Authentication
Authentication takes place when a user accesses applications. If authentication is successful, the users application set is displayed. You can configure the following authentication methods: Explicit (MetaFrame Presentation Server sites) or Prompt (Program Neighborhood Agent Services sites). Users are required to log on by supplying a user name and password on IIS. User Principal Names (UPN), Microsoft domain-based authentication, and Novell Directory Service (NDS) are available. For MetaFrame Presentation Server sites, RSA SecurID, and SafeWord authentication are also available. Pass-through. Users can authenticate using the credentials they provided when they logged on to their Windows desktop on IIS. Users do not need to reenter their credentials and their application set is displayed automatically. Additionally, you can use Kerberos authentication to connect to servers. If you specify the Kerberos authentication option and Kerberos fails, pass-through authentication also fails and users cannot log on. For more information about Kerberos, see the MetaFrame Presentation Server Administrators Guide. Pass-through with smart card. Users can authenticate by inserting a smart card into a smart card reader attached to the client device on IIS. Pass-through authentication is enabled; thus, the user is not prompted for a PIN. If you are configuring a Program Neighborhood Agent Services site, you can use Kerberos authentication to connect to servers. If you specify the Kerberos authentication option and Kerberos fails, pass-through authentication also fails and users cannot log on. For more information about Kerberos, see the MetaFrame Presentation Server Administrators Guide. Smart card. Users can authenticate using a smart card on IIS. The user is prompted for a PIN.
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Anonymous. Anonymous users can log on without supplying a user name and password, and launch applications published for anonymous users on the server. Note Citrix recommends that you do not enable anonymous user access if you are using MetaFrame 1.8 with Feature Release 1. When anonymous user access is enabled with this version of MetaFrame, users can view explicitly published applications.
CAUTION Web Interface anonymous users can obtain Secure Gateway tickets, despite not being authenticated by the Web Interface. Because the Secure Gateway relies on the Web Interface issuing tickets only to authenticated users, this compromises one of the security benefits of using the Secure Gateway in your installation.
Authentication Recommendations
Ensure users log on to their workstations and the Web Interface consistently, either explicitly (with a user name and password) or using smart cards, not a mixture of both methods. For example, if a user logs on to the Windows desktop using a smart card, and then logs on to the Web Interface explicitly, the credentials supplied by the client may be incorrect. In this case, the client may supply the PIN rather than the user name and password. If you change the methods for authenticating to the Web Interface, error messages may be displayed to existing users. Users must close and restart any browsers used to access the Web Interface.
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Note Enabling pass-through authentication poses a security risk. See the Caution in Pass-Through Requirements on page 58 for more information.
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You want to enable smart card authentication for the user Gary. Gary is using a Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 client device. A smart card reader is attached to his client device and smart card support is configured on the server. Currently, the Web Interface is configured to allow only explicit authentication using a user name and password. To enable smart card authentication 1. Use the Components CD-ROM to install the full Client for Win32 on Garys client device. The installation of the client is performed using an administrator account. During installation of the Client for Win32, respond Yes to the prompt Would you like to enable and automatically use your local user name and password for Citrix sessions from this client? 2. Edit the Appsrv.ini file in Garys profile. This is located in C:\Documents and Settings\Gary\Application Data\ICAClient In the [WFClient] section, add the following entries:
EnableSSOnThruICAFile=On SSOnUserSetting=On
3. Ensure that the Windows Directory Service Mapper is enabled. For more information, see Step 3Enabling the Windows Directory Service Mapper on page 56. 4. Use the Configure authentication methods task in the Access Suite Console to enable smart card authentication. When Gary selects Smart Card on the Log In page, he enters his PIN to log on (assuming he logged on to his Windows desktop using his smart card). Note If you do not want Gary to have to reenter his PIN when he logs on to the Web Interface, select Pass-through with smart card.
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Pass-Through Requirements
To use the pass-through authentication feature, your servers must be running MetaFrame Presentation Server with Feature Release 2 or later, the Web Interface must be running on IIS on Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 or Windows Server 2003, and users must be running Internet Explorer Version 5.5 or later. CAUTION If the servers are running versions prior to MetaFrame Presentation Server with Feature Release 2, users may be able to view all applications when using pass-through. If users are using clients earlier than Version 6.30 and ICA encryption (SecureICA) is enabled, pass-through will not work. To use pass-through with ICA encryption, you must have the latest clients and the server must be running MetaFrame Presentation Server with Feature Release 2 or later. CAUTION When a user selects an application, a file is sent to the browser. The file can contain a setting that instructs the client to send the users workstation credentials to the server. By default, the client does not honor this setting; however, there is a risk that if the pass-through feature is enabled on the MetaFrame Presentation Server Client for Win32, an attacker could send the user a file that causes the users credentials to be misrouted to an unauthorized or counterfeit server. Therefore, use pass-through authentication only in secure, trusted environments.
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Select Never if you do not want to allow users to change their passwords. To let users change their logon password only when the password expires, select Only when it expires. When you enable this option, if a user fails to log on to the Web Interface due to an expired password, the user is redirected to the Change password dialog box. After changing their password, users are automatically logged on to the Web Interface using the new password. To let users change their password as often as they want in the Web Interface, select At any time. When you enable this option, the change password icon appears on users pages. When users click this icon, a dialog box appears where users can enter a new password.
If you are configuring a Program Neighborhood Agent Services site, you can specify if users can save their passwords using the Allow user to save password option. 5. Select the type of authentication that explicit users must use: Select Windows or NIS (UNIX) to specify Microsoft domain-based authentication. You can specify whether you allow any domains to be entered in the users Domain box, or specify which domains are permitted. Additionally, you can specify which User Principal Names (UPN) suffixes are accepted. By default, all UPN suffixes are permitted.
Note If users receive a wrong credentials error message during log on, this may be due to an empty domain box. To resolve this issue, select Hide Domain field during log in, or if you are using a mixed farm environment, add UNIX as the domain name and ensure it is the first item in the Domains list. Select Use NDS authentication to specify Novell Directory Service (NDS) authentication and enter a name in the Default tree name box. You can then configure context restriction or contextless authentication.
Note By default, eDirectory does not give anonymous connection access to the cn attribute, which is required for contextless logon. For information about how to reconfigure eDirectory, visit http://developer.novell.com/.
Two-Factor Authentication
You can configure the following two-factor authentication methods for MetaFrame Presentation Server sites:
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Secure Computing SafeWord for Citrix. A two-factor authentication technology, using alphanumeric codes generated by SafeWord tokens and (optionally) PIN numbers to create a passcode. Users enter their domain credentials and SafeWord passcodes in the Log In page before they can access applications on the server. RSA SecurID. A two-factor authentication method that uses numbers generated by RSA SecurID tokens (tokencodes) and PIN numbers to create a PASSCODE. Users enter their user names, domains, and RSA SecurID PASSCODES on the Log In page before they can access applications on the server. When creating users on the ACE/Server, user logon names must be the same as their domain user names.
Note When using RSA SecurID authentication, the system can generate and display a new PIN to the user. This PIN is displayed for 10 seconds or until the user clicks OK or Cancel to ensure that the PIN cannot be viewed by others. This feature is not available on PDAs. For security reasons, users cannot log on using the Program Neighborhood Agent if the Web Interface is using RSA SecurID or Secure Computing SafeWord authentication.
SafeWord Requirements
To use SafeWord authentication with the Web Interface for IIS: The SafeWord Agent for the Web Interface must be installed on the server running the Web Interface The Web Interface must be installed prior to installing the SafeWord Agent for the Web Interface
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If you do not have earlier versions of the Web Interface integrated with SafeWord, you must obtain an updated version of the SafeWord Agent for the Web Interface from Secure Computing. For more information about configuring your SafeWord product, see http://www.securecomputing.com/.
SecurID Requirements
To use SecurID authentication with the Web Interface for IIS: The RSA ACE/Agent for Windows 6.0 must be installed on the server running the Web Interface The Web Interface must be installed after the installation of the ACE/Agent
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If the node secret on the server running the Web Interface and the RSA ACE/Server does not match, RSA SecurID fails.You must reset the node secret on the server running the Web Interface and the RSA ACE/Server. CAUTION Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Citrix cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk. To reset the node secret on the server running the Web Interface 1. In the system registry, navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SDTI\ACECLIENT 2. Delete the NodeSecret key. Note Reinstalling the Web Interface does not delete the node secret key. If the Agent Host entry remains unchanged on the RSA server, the node secret can be reused.
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If users do not submit a response (for example, if they click Cancel), they are directed back to the Login page. Citrix recommends that this mode is used only if software components or products other than the Web Interface also use the RADIUS server for authentication.
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You can change challenge messages by launching the RSA RADIUS Configuration Utility. For more information about using this tool, see the RSA documentation provided with the SecurID software. To display the same messages to users accessing sites on IIS and UNIX servers, the following challenges must be updated:
Message For Does User Want a System PIN Is User Ready To Get System PIN Is User Satisfied With System PIN New Numeric PIN of Fixed Length New Alphanumeric PIN of Fixed Length New Numeric PIN of Variable Length New Alphanumeric PIN of Variable Length New PIN Accepted Enter Yes or No Next Token Code Required Packet Challenge Challenge Challenge Challenge Challenge Challenge Challenge Challenge Challenge Challenge Updated Value CHANGE_PIN_EITHER SYSTEM_PIN_READY CHANGE_PIN_SYSTEM_[%s] CHANGE_PIN_USER CHANGE_PIN_USER CHANGE_PIN_USER CHANGE_PIN_USER SUCCESS FAILURE NEXT_TOKENCODE
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Full screen only. Key combinations apply to the remote desktop in the ICA session only when it is in full screen mode.
Audio. Options enabled in this section are available for users to select. Workspace control options. Use these options to configure workspace control settings. For more information about workspace control, see Configuring Workspace Control on page 86.
Using the Manage application shortcuts task, you can also remove shortcuts. You can specify when shortcuts are removed (either when the Program Neighborhood Agent closes or when users log off from the Program Neighborhood Agent), and which shortcuts are removed (Program Neighborhood shortcuts or Program Neighborhood and user-created shortcuts). If you select both Program Neighborhood and user-created shortcuts, you can also specify the search folder depth to improve performance.
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Applications window. Specify the window title bar color and image, title bar text color, number of application icon columns that are displayed, and allow users to customize these settings. Welcome area. Specify the title bar background color, title bar text color, welcome message text language, welcome message text, and any additional languages.
The graphics in these option pages update as you make your changes, and are reflected in the main Customize appearance for user page.
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Alternate. The alternate address is given to the client. The server must be configured with an alternate address and the firewall configured for network address translation. Translated. The address given to the client is determined by the address translation mappings set in the Web Interface. Secure Gateway Direct. Secure Gateway Alternate. Secure Gateway Translated.
The Secure Gateway works with the Web Interface to provide a single, secure, encrypted point of access through the Internet to servers on internal corporate networks. This means office workers can access corporate information remotely, without compromising network security, from anywhere in the world, from any device, and at any time. Secure Gateway ticketing (STA) is the mechanism used to notify the Secure Gateway that a user is authenticated and can be granted access to the server farm. Tickets are generated and verified by the Secure Ticket Authority server. When a user selects an application, the Web Interface sends the address of the server on which the application resides to the Secure Ticket Authority in return for a ticket. This ticket is later exchanged by the Secure Gateway for the address of the server.
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The use of tickets enhances security, because the internal network addresses of servers are hidden. See Editing Address Translations on page 73 for an example of how to configure Secure Gateway support. For more information about the Secure Gateway, see the Secure Gateway for MetaFrame Administrators Guide. To edit Secure Gateway settings 1. From the Edit Secure Gateway settings dialog box, specify the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the Secure Gateway server that clients must use in the Secure Gateway address (FQDN) box. This must match what is on the certificate installed on the Secure Gateway server. 2. Specify the port number on the Secure Gateway server that clients must use in the Secure Gateway port box. The default port number is 443. 3. To use session reliability, select the Enable session reliability through Secure Gateway 3.0 option. 4. In the Secure Ticket Authorities area, click Add to specify the URL of a Secure Ticket Authority that the Web Interface can use. The Secure Ticket Authority is displayed in the Secure Ticket Authority URLs list. Secure Ticket Authorities are included with the XML service, for example, in http://mfsrv01/Scripts/CtxSta.dll. Secure Ticket Authorities are generally used for fault tolerance; however, Citrix recommends that you do not use an external load balancer for this purpose. You can specify up to 256 Secure Ticket Authorities in this list. 5. To place the Secure Ticket Authorities in order of priority, highlight a Secure Ticket Authority URL and click Move Up or Move Down. To remove a Secure Ticket Authority URL, highlight it in the list and click Remove. 6. Choose whether or not to enable load balancing between Secure Ticket Authorities using the Use for load balancing option. Enabling load balancing allows you to evenly distribute connections among servers so that no one server becomes overloaded. If an error occurs while communicating with a server, all further communication is load balanced among the remaining servers in the list. 7. The Web Interface provides fault tolerance among servers in the Secure Ticket Authority list. If an error occurs while communicating with a server, the failed server is bypassed for the time specified in the Bypass any failed server for box. 8. Click OK to finish making changes.
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Client Settings
The following clients are available for application launching: Local client. The full client is automatically deployed to users, including seamless window support. Applications are launched in desktop windows that can be resized. If users are accessing applications through a PDA device, you must enable the local client. Native embedded client (ActiveX or Netscape plugin). Users download and install this client when applications are launched. Seamless windows are not supported; applications are launched in a fixed-size window. Client for Java. The Client for Java is automatically deployed to users. This client supports seamless windows; applications are launched in desktop windows that can be resized. Embedded Remote Desktop Connection software. Remote Desktop Connection software is automatically deployed to users. Seamless windows are not supported; applications are launched in a fixed-size window.
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You must specify a default client. To do this, select a client and use the Set as default button in the Manage client deployment wizard. Note The native embedded client and embedded Remote Desktop Connection software are not supported on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) running Pocket PC.
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2. Select Client for Java and click Next. 3. In the Specify launch client settings page, select the Automatic fallback to the Client for Java option. 4. Continue through the rest of the wizard and click Finish to accept the changes. Note The Client for Java must be deployed for users connecting with a Safari Web browser. Additionally, you can automatically deploy the Web client to users running Internet Explorer. If you enable this feature, when users access the Web Interface, their client devices and Web browser are detected. If they are on a Windows platform and they do not have a client, or their current client is not up-to-date, the Web Interface attempts to install the specified client on their client devices automatically. Users install the client by clicking Yes in the dialog box that appears. You can deploy the minimal Web client installation file (wficac.cab). This client does not install all components (such as Program Neighborhood); therefore, this client is smaller and easier to download and may be suitable for users on low bandwidth connections. The following features are not available using the minimal Web client: SecureICA (RC5) encryption Universal Printer Driver SpeedScreen latency reduction Client audio mapping Wheel mouse support Multiple monitor support User-to-user shadowing Content redirection Novell Directory Services support Extended parameter passing Client COM port mapping
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Panning and scaling Per-user time zone support Support for protocols other than TCP/IP Single sign-on
For more information about the features available in the Web clients, see the Client for 32-bit Windows Administrator's Guide. To enable the Web client download option, select the Automatically update the Web Client at log on option in the Manage client deployment task. Note Automatic installation of the Web client on Windows workstations requires the user to have administrative rights on the client device, or that the ActiveX control be registered in Active Directory. See the Microsoft support Web site for more details.
This screen capture shows an example of an installation caption that may appear in the users Log In page.
Note To use Web-based client installation, ensure your Web server contains the client installation files. For more information about Web-based client installation, see MetaFrame Presentation Server Clients and the Web Interface on page 117.
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You can use one of the following settings: Auto. If the user does not have an appropriate client installed, the installation caption is displayed. This is the default setting and is valid for the Client for Win32 only. Yes. The installation caption is always displayed on all platforms. No. The installation caption is never displayed.
To configure the clients offered to users by installation captions, you must edit the WebInterface.conf file. For more information, see Configuring Web-Based Client Installation on page 119 and Configuring the Web Interface Using the Configuration File on page 91.
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Using Private Root Certificates with the Client for Java Version 9.x
If you configured a Secure Gateway or the Citrix SSL Relay service with a server certificate obtained from a private certificate authority (for example, if you issue your own certificates using Microsoft Certificate Services), you must import the root certificate into the Java keystore on each client machine. For more information, see the Client for Java Administrators Guide.
Using Private Root Certificates with the Client for Java Version 8.x
To use private root certificates with Version 8.x of the client, select the Use a private root certificate option. Enter the file name of the certificate in the Certificate file name box. The certificate must be located in the same directory on the Web server as the Java Client packages (such as ICAWEB\icajava in the common files directory on IIS).
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Important This option does not verify that the root certificate is delivered over a secure connection. Because the root certificate could be transmitted over an unencrypted HTTP link, it is potentially vulnerable to attack. Citrix recommends that you configure the Web server to use HTTPS connections.
Deploying the Client for Java Using the Web Interface with Custom SSL/TLS Certificates
Use the following procedure to configure the Web Interface to use a single custom SSL root certificate if you are using the Client for Java Version 8.x. The certificate is made available to the Java Client as an individual file in the clients codebase directory on the Web server. This can cause problems for .cer files because IIS sends these using MIME text and the file can become corrupted during transport (for example, line endings change). Also, some Java Virtual Machines (JVM), such as the IBM JVM on OS/2, will not retrieve certificates when specified as individual files. Citrix recommends that you package custom root certificates into a single archive file to supply multiple certificates. This procedure is documented in the Client for Java Administrators Guide. The following procedure describes how to configure custom certificates using the Web Interface and the Client for Java. To configure custom certificates 1. Contact your Certificate Authority and obtain the root certificates that correspond to the server certificates being used on the servers. 2. In a text editor, locate and open the appembedJICA.inc file. By default, this is located in C:\Inetpub\Wwwroot\Citrix\MetaFrame\site\include. 3. Locate the section between the <applet> and </applet> HTML tags. 4. Before the </applet> tag, specify which SSL/TLS certificates the Client for Java should use. Use the following parameters: SSLNoCACerts. The number of specified certificates in the client archive.
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SSLCACert0, SSLCert1...SSLCertn. The names of the root certificates to use when validating the name of the server certificate. The number of root certificates that you specify must match the number specified in the SSLNoCACerts parameter.
For example, if you have three custom root certificates with filenames A.crt, B.crt, and C.cer, insert the following lines: <param name="SSLNoCACerts" value="3"> <param name="SSLCACert0" value="A.crt"> <param name="SSLCACert1" value="B.crt"> <param name="SSLCACert2" value="C.cer"> 5. Search for the codebase parameter and make a note of the path listed on this line. <%=langCode%> is the folder name of the language with which you are working. Do not edit this line. 6. If the client will be deployed in Microsoft Internet Explorer with the Microsoft JVM, package the certificates in a .cab file. For more information, see the Client for Java Administrators Guide. 7. Search for the cabinets parameter. Add the name of the archive you created in Step 6. For example, if you named your archive MyCerts.cab, change the following: <param name=cabinets value="<%=jicaCabFiles%>"> to <param name=cabinets value="<%=jicaCabFiles%>MyCerts.cab"> 8. Copy your archive file to the directory specified in the codebase attribute that you noted in Step 5. The default path is C:\Inetpub\Wwwroot\Citrix\ICAWEB\en\icajava. 9. Save the appembedJICA.inc file. 10. On the client device, launch the Web browser and connect to the server running the Web Interface. All embedded Java Client sessions to secured servers work transparently using SSL.
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Using the Access Suite Console, you can set default proxy rules for clients. However, you can also configure exceptions to this behavior for individual clients. To configure exceptions, you associate the proxy servers external IP address with the proxy servers internal address and port. You can also specify that proxy behavior is controlled by the client. For example, to use the Secure Proxy feature in MetaFrame Presentation Server, configure the Web Interface to use the proxy settings specified on the client and configure the client for Secure Proxy. For more information about using clients to control proxy behavior, see the relevant MetaFrame Presentation Server Client Administrators Guide. To configure default proxy settings 1. Click the Edit client-side proxy task. 2. Click Add to create a new mapping or Edit to edit an existing mapping. 3. Enter the external address of the proxy in the IP Address box. 4. Enter the subnet mask in the Subnet Mask box. 5. In the Proxy list, select one of the following: Auto detect. The client auto-detects the Web proxy based on the clients browser configuration. Client defined. The settings configured by the user for the client. None. No proxy is used. SOCKS. If this option is selected, you must enter the address of the proxy server in the Proxy Address box and the port number in the Proxy Port box. The proxy address can be an IP address or a DNS name.
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Secure (HTTPS). If this option is selected, you must enter the address of the proxy server in the Proxy Address box and the port number in the Proxy Port box. The proxy address can be an IP address or a DNS name.
6. Click OK. The mapping is added to the Mapping list. 7. You can control the order in which multiple mappings are applied. Select a mapping and click Move Up or Move Down to place the mappings in order of priority. To remove a mapping, select the mapping and click Remove.
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Bandwidth control allows users to select session settings based on their connection bandwidth. These options are displayed in the Log In page under Advanced Options in the Connection Speed drop-down list. Bandwidth control provides control for color depth, audio, and printer mapping. To enable this feature, you must also select Allow user to customize printer mapping in the Manage client connection settings task. Additionally, you can use ICA override files to control other ICA settings for bandwidth control:
File Name bandwidth_ high.ica bandwidth_ medium_high.ica bandwidth_ medium.ica bandwidth_low.ica default.ica Description Contains the override ICA settings for high bandwidth connections. Contains the override ICA settings for medium high bandwidth connections. Contains the override ICA settings for medium bandwidth connections. Contains the override ICA settings for low bandwidth connections. Contains the override ICA settings used when no bandwidth is selected.
If the Client for Java is used, bandwidth control determines whether or not audio and printer mapping packages are downloaded. If Remote Desktop Connection is used, audio quality is either mapped to On or Off and further quality control is not provided. Low bandwidth is recommended for wireless WAN connections. Note If Remote Desktop Connection is used in conjunction with bandwidth control, the Web Interface specifies parameters appropriate to the selected bandwidth. However, the actual behavior depends on the version of the Remote Desktop Software, Terminal Servers, and the server configuration. By default, users can adjust the window size of client sessions. For Conferencing Manager Guest Attendee sites, you can configure: Windows key combinations Kiosk mode
Kiosk mode is ideal for situations in which client devices are public terminals and used by a variety of users. When kiosk mode is enabled, users settings are not stored and are retained only for the duration of their session. If you prevent users from adjusting a setting, the setting is not displayed in the user interface and the settings specified for the published application in the Management Console for MetaFrame Presentation Server are used.
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Feature Requirements
The following requirements and recommendations apply to the workspace control feature: If the Web Interface detects that it is being accessed from within a client session, the workspace control feature is disabled. To use single sign-on, smart card, or smart card with single sign-on, you must set up a trust relationship between the server running the Web Interface and the Citrix XML Service. For more information, see Using Workspace Control with Integrated Authentication Methods on page 87.
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Applications published for anonymous use are terminated when both anonymous and authenticated users disconnect, provided that the Citrix XML Service is set to trust Web Interface credentials. Thus, users cannot reconnect to anonymous applications after they disconnect. If client credential pass-through is not enabled, smart card users are prompted for their PINs for each session being reconnected. This is not an issue with single sign-on or smart cards with single sign-on because client credential passthrough is enabled with these options. Each session times out after a period of inactivity (typically 20 minutes). When the HTTP session times out, the Login screen appears; however, any applications launched or reconnected in that session are not disconnected. Users must manually disconnect, log off, or log back on to the Web Interface and use the Log off buttons or disconnect.
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Configure IPSec, firewalls, or other technology that you use to secure the environment to restrict access to the Citrix XML Service to only the Web Interface servers. For example, if the Citrix XML Service is sharing a port with Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), you can use the IP address restriction capability in IIS to restrict access to the Citrix XML Service.
To enable automatic reconnection when users log on 1. Select the Automatically reconnect to sessions when user logs in option. To automatically reconnect both disconnected and active sessions, select All sessions To automatically reconnect disconnected sessions only, select Disconnected sessions only
2. Use the Allow user to customize option to allow users to select these options in the user interface. To enable the Reconnect option 1. Select the Automatically reconnect to sessions after user logs in option. To configure the Reconnect command to automatically reconnect both disconnected and active sessions, select All sessions To configure the Reconnect command to automatically reconnect disconnected sessions only, select Disconnected sessions only
2. Use the Allow user to customize option to allow users to select these options in the user interface. To configure log off behavior 1. In the Log off section, to log users off from the Web Interface and all active sessions, select Log off all sessions when user logs off from the Web Interface.
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2. Use the Allow user to customize option to allow users to select these options in the user interface.
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The following table shows the parameters that WebInterface.conf can contain (in alphabetical order). If a parameter is not specified in WebInterface.conf, its default value is used.
Parameter AdditionalExplicit Authentication Description Defines the explicit two-factor authentication that must be carried out, in addition to SAM, ADS or NDS. This replaces the deprecated setting of EnableSecurIDWithExplicit Authentication. Specifies what type of address to use for the NFuse_AppServerAddress tag in Template.ica. Specifies whether users can provide MetaFrame Presentation Server with the type of connection between their Web browser and MetaFrame Presentation Server, to optimize ICA settings. Specifies whether to allow users to specify the number of columns. Specifies whether the user is permitted to adjust the audio quality for ICA sessions. Whether to allow users to enable/ disable client printer mapping. Specifies whether the user is permitted to change which client is used to launch the application. Specifies whether the user is permitted to change the Client for Java packages that are downloaded. Whether to allow users to choose which user interface to use. Values None, SecurID, SafeWord, RADIUS Site Types MetaFrame Presentation Server
AddressResolution Type
MetaFrame Presentation Server Program Neighborhood Agent Services Conferencing Manager MetaFrame Presentation Server
AllowBandwidth Selection
Off, On
AllowCustomizeApp Columns AllowCustomize Audio AllowCustomizeClient PrinterMapping AllowCustomize Clients AllowCustomizeJava ClientPackages
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Off, On
AllowCustomize Layout
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Description Specifies whether users can override the behavior displayed by the workspace control feature when the user logs off from MetaFrame Presentation Server. Specifies whether the MetaFrame Presentation Server user is able to override the behavior of workspace control at logon. Specifies whether the MetaFrame Presentation Server user is able to override the behavior of workspace control when Reconnect is clicked. Specifies whether the user can access the Settings screen and make changes. Specifies whether to allow users to select the key combination passthrough behavior. Specifies whether to allow users to enable/disable PDA synchronization. Specifies whether the user is permitted to change the color depth for ICA sessions. Specifies whether the user is allowed to change the window size for ICA sessions. Defines under what conditions users can change their password. Specifies whether to return the alternate server address in the ICA file.
AllowCustomize ReconnectAtLogin
On, Off
AllowCustomize ReconnectButton
On, Off
AllowCustomize Settings AllowCustomize TransparentKey Passthrough AllowCustomizeVirtual COMPortEmulation AllowCustomizeWin Color AllowCustomizeWin Size AllowUserPassword Change AlternateAddress
On, Off
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On, Off
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Description Defines the permitted logon methods. This is a comma separated list and can contain any of the specified values in any order. Specifies whether the ActiveX client should be downloaded to users with no client, or one that is out of date. Whether to use the Client for Java to launch applications if no native client is detected on Win32 platforms. Specifies the color for the lines and bars in the header and footer areas. Time before a failed RADIUS server is considered for reuse. Time before a failed STA server is considered for reuse.
Site Types MetaFrame Presentation Server Program Neighborhood Agent Services MetaFrame Presentation Server
AutoDeployWebClient
AutoFallbackToJava Client
Off, On
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BrandingColor
Hex color number or color name A number in seconds (600) A number in seconds (3600)
ClientAddressMap
Part of the server side firewall configuration. A list of client address, address type pairings. The first can be a partial address, or a subnet address and mask, while the latter takes the values: Normal, Alternate, Translated, SG, SGAlternate, and SGTranslated. Using an asterisk (*) in place of a client address or subnet indicates the default for all otherwise unspecified clients.
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Parameter ClientProxy
Description Client side firewall option. Specifies a list of client subnet addresses and masks, or address prefixes, and associated proxy settings. The client address in the returned ICA file is determined by these settings. Using an asterisk (*) in place of a client address or subnet indicates the default for all otherwise unspecified clients. The value of the third field (proxy address) in each set of three is ignored unless the second field (proxy type) is an explicit proxy type (SOCKS or Secure), but it must always be present; the default value for this field is the minus sign (-). A URL to be used as the hyperlink for the company logo if CompanyLogo is specified. A URL to the company logo image. Specifies from where Web Interface should load the configuration.
Values <ClientAddress>| <Subnet Address>/ <Subnet Mask>|*, Auto|Client|None| SOCKS|Secure, |<ProxyAddress>| <ProxyAddress>: <ProxyPort>,
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CompanyHomePage
A valid URL
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CompanyLogo
A valid URL
Configuration Location
Path to the configuration file within the web app | commaseparated list of server-address:port, where server-address is either a DNS name or an IP address File | ConfigurationService
ConfigurationSource Type
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CSG_EnableSession Reliability
Specifies whether or not to use Session Reliability through the Secure Gateway.
Off, On
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Parameter CSG_Server
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CSG_ServerPort
CSG_STA_URL<n>
DefaultClient
Whether to show all clients available for download when platform cannot be auto detected. Only relevant if install captions are to be shown. The default language to be used if a browser requests a nonsupported language.
On, Off
DefaultLocale
MetaFrame Presentation Server Program Neighborhood Agent Services Conferencing Manager MetaFrame Presentation Server Conferencing Manager
DefaultWelcome MessageLocale
Locale of the default Welcome message text to be displayed in the Welcome area of the Login screen and Application screen. This should match up to the langcode part of one of the defined WelcomeMessage_lang-code settings, for example, en. Whether to display the footer defined in footer.inc. Whether to display the header defined in header.inc.
DisplayFooter
On, Off
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DisplayHeader
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Description Whether to use background image or simple background color for the main box title bar. Specifies the time period over which DuplicateLogLimit log entries will be monitored.
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DuplicateLogLimit
Specifies the number of duplicate log entries allowed in the time period DuplicateLogInterval.
EnableFileType Association
Specifies whether file type association is enabled or disabled for a site. If this is Off, content redirection is not available for the site. Whether to enable Kerberos authentication. Specifies whether older MetaFrame Presentation Server Clients that cannot read UTF-8 ICA files are supported. If this is Off, MetaFrame Presentation Server will produce ICA files in UTF-8 encoding. Specifies whether the workspace control feature should logoff Active applications when the user logs off from MetaFrame Presentation Server. Turn this on to permit sessions on multiple RADIUS servers to be load balanced in a random-access manner. Failover between the servers still occurs regardless of whether this is On or Off.
On, Off
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EnableLogoff Applications
On, Off
EnableRadiusServer LoadBalancing
On, Off
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Description Turn this on to permit requests to multiple Secure Gateway STA servers to be load balanced.
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Whether to enable PDA synchronization through tethered USB connection. Specifies whether the workspace control feature is available to MetaFrame Presentation Server users. Specifies a URL for Web Interface to redirect to when an error occurs. It takes four query string parameters: NFuse_MessageType NFuse_MessageKey NFuse_MessageArgs NFuse_LogEventID Specifies all the information for a farm.
On, Off
On, Off
ErrorCallbackURL
A valid URL
Farm<n>
XML service address [,XML service address,...] [,Name:<name>] [,XMLPort:<port>] [,Transport:<HTTP| HTTPS|SSL>] [,SSLRelayPort: <port>] [,BypassDuration: <duration>] [,LoadBalance: <on|off>] [,ECSUrlURL>] [,AuthenticationTickets: <on|off>] [TicketTimeToLive: <seconds (200)>] A valid URL
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Description Controls whether the domain field is displayed on the Login screen. Specifies download caption and links for the associated platform. Specifies download caption and links for the associated platform. File name of the Client for Win32.
Values Off, On "Default". Caption and links "Default". Caption and links wficat.cab
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IbmAixClient
ICAWebClient
IcaWebClientClassID
ICAWebClientVersion
Version number of client (from the Client CD-ROM). Used with autoWebClientDownload. Ignore the client-provided client address when set.
IgnoreClientProvided ClientAddress
Off, On
InternalServer AddressMap
A list of normal, translated address pairings. The normal address identifies the Secure Gateway server address and the translated address is that which should be returned to the MetaFrame Presentation Server Client. Specifies download caption and links for the associated platform. The default set of Client for Java packages to download. Consists of a comma-separated list in arbitrary order.
NormalAddress = TranslatedAddress,
JavaClient
"Default". Caption and links ConfigUI, PrinterMapping, SecureICA, Audio, ClientDriveMapping, ClipBoard, SSL, Thinwire1, ZeroLatency
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Description The file name of a private root certificate for the Client for Java. The certificate must be located in the same directory as the Client for Java packages. Controls whether user settings should be persistent or last only for the lifetime of the session. When kiosk mode is enabled, user settings will not persist from one session to another. Defines from which clients the user is allowed to select. Used in conjunction with AllowCustomizeClients. Preferred client to use for launches. Specifies download caption and links for the associated platform. Domain names to use for display and/or restriction purpose for explicit authentication. Specifies which Login screen is displayed. May be either domainbased, or NDS. Specifies download caption and links for the associated platform. Specifies the background color for the main box title bar. Specifies a URL to the background image for the main box title bar.
KioskMode
Off, On
LaunchClients
Ica-Local, Ica-Java, Ica-Embedded, Rdp-Embedded Ica-Local, Ica-Java, ca-Embedded, Rdp-Embedded "Default". Caption and links List of NetBIOS domain names
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LaunchMethod
LinuxClient
LoginDomains
LoginType
Default, NDS
MacClient
"Default". Caption and links Hex color number or color name A valid URL.
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Description Font color for the main box title bar. Background color for the headings of the welcome area and the message center. Font color for the headings of the welcome area and the message center. Specifies the LDAP servers to use. If the port is not specified, it is inferred from the protocol: ldap for the default LDAP port (389), or ldaps for the default LDAP over SSL port (636). A maximum of 512 servers is supported. If this parameter is empty or not present, the contextless logon functionality is disabled. Specifies whether or not to load balance the configured LDAP servers. When using NDS authentication, this specifies the NDS tree to use.
Values Hex color number or color name Hex color number or color name Hex color number or color name None. ldap://[:]| ldaps://[:],...
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NDSContextLookup Loadbalancing
Off, On
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NDSTreeName
OtherClient
Specifies download caption and links for unrecognized client platforms. Specifies a custom message to be displayed along with the download links for the clients. Specifies whether to use socket pooling or not.
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Description Specifies the time-out value to use when waiting for a response from the session's RADIUS server. A comma-separated list of RADIUS servers and optionally the ports on which they listen. Servers can be specified using IPs or names, and the server and port for each element are separated using a colon. If the port is omitted, MetaFrame Presentation Server assumes the RADIUS default of 1812. A maximum of 512 RADIUS servers can be configured. Filename of the Remote Desktop Connection software used for embedded launches and autodeployment of this client. Class ID of the Remote Desktop Connection ActiveX client shipped with Windows Server 2003. Version number of the Remote Desktop Connection software shipped with Windows Server 2003. Specifies whether workspace control should reconnect to applications at logon, and if so, whether to reconnect all applications, or disconnected applications only. Specifies whether workspace control should reconnect to applications when the MetaFrame Presentation Server users click Reconnect, and if so, whether to reconnect to all applications, or disconnected applications only. Controls TLS settings.
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7584c670-2274-4efbb00b-d6aaba6d3850 5,2,3790,0
RDPWebClient Version
ReconnectAtLogin
ReconnectButton
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Parameter RestrictDomains
Description Controls whether LoginDomains is to be treated as a restriction or display list for explicit authentication. The number of times a failed request to the XML Service is retried before the service is deemed to have failed. Specifies download caption and links for the associated platform. An optional comma-separated list of context names for use with NDS authentication. Part of server side firewall support. A list of normal, translated address pairings. The normal address identifies the server address and the translated address is returned to the client. Specifies download caption and links for the associated platform. Controls the display of download captions. Auto specifies that the download caption is shown if the user does not have a client installed and automatic Web installation is disabled. On other platforms, the caption is always shown.
Values Off, On
Site Types MetaFrame Presentation Server Program Neighborhood Agent Services MetaFrame Presentation Server Program Neighborhood Agent Services Conferencing Manager MetaFrame Presentation Server Conferencing Manager MetaFrame Presentation Server Program Neighborhood Agent Services MetaFrame Presentation Server Program Neighborhood Agent Services Conferencing Manager MetaFrame Presentation Server Conferencing Manager MetaFrame Presentation Server Conferencing Manager
RetryCount
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"Default". Caption and links None. Comma delimited list of context names NormalAddress, TranslatedAddress,
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ServerAddressMap
SgiUnixClient
ShowClientInstall Caption
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Parameter SiteIDRoot
Description A string that provides the basis of a unique site identifier. For windows the SiteIDRoot is used directly as the site identifier when communicating with the configuration service. For UNIX, runtime information is added to the SiteIDRoot to form the site identifier for the configuration service. Specifies download caption and links for the associated platform. Specifies the time-out value to use when communicating with the XML service.
Site Types MetaFrame Presentation Server Program Neighborhood Agent Services Conferencing Manager
SolarisUnixClient
MetaFrame Presentation Server Conferencing Manager MetaFrame Presentation Server Program Neighborhood Agent Services Conferencing Manager MetaFrame Presentation Server Conferencing Manager MetaFrame Presentation Server Conferencing Manager MetaFrame Presentation Server Program Neighborhood Agent Services MetaFrame Presentation Server Conferencing Manager
Timeout
Specify the mode of Windows key combinations pass-through. Specifies download caption and links for the associated platform. Restrict UPN authentication to these suffixes for explicit authentication. Whether to use the compact user interface.
Local, Remote, FullScreenOnly "Default". Caption and links List of UPN suffixes
UPNSuffixes
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Description Localized welcome message text to be displayed in the welcome area of the Login screen and Application List screen. lang-code is en, fr, de, es, ja or any other standard language code. Specifies download caption and links for the associated platform. Specifies download caption and links for the associated platform.
Win16Client
MetaFrame Presentation Server Conferencing Manager MetaFrame Presentation Server Conferencing Manager
Win32Client
ForceLoginDomain
N/A
LoginType NDSTreeName
N/A N/A
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To configure the Web Interface when using the Program Neighborhood Agent 1. Open the WebInterface.conf file. 2. Locate the following parameters: AuthenticationMethods ForceLoginDomain LoginType NDSTreeName
3. Amend the settings for these parameters as shown in the table above. 4. Restart the server running the Web Interface to apply the changes.
Examples
This section provides typical examples of how to configure the Web Interface using the WebInterface.conf file.
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Note The server name specified must match the name on the servers certificate.
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What to Do Next
For more information about deploying MetaFrame Presentation Server clients to Web Interface users or about configuring the Client for Macintosh, see MetaFrame Presentation Server Clients and the Web Interface on page 117. For information about security considerations, see Chapter 5, Configuring Web Interface Security on page 123.
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Overview
This chapter describes how to configure SmartAccess for the Web Interface. Topics include: Controlling Access to Resources Making Resources Available to Users Configuring SmartAccess
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System Requirements
To use SmartAccess you must ensure the following software is installed on your servers: Citrix Access Gateway with Advanced Access Control 4.2 MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.0 Access Suite Console 4.0 (for MetaFrame Presentation Server), with the Access Suite Console 4.2, ASC00W004.msp, patch applied Web Interface for MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.2
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You must also ensure that address translation and firewall settings are identical for the Web Interface and Advanced Access Control.
Deploying SmartAccess
The recommended deployment for using SmartAccess with the Web Interface is illustrated below
This diagram shows the recommended deployment for using SmartAccess with the Web Interface.
MetaFrame Presentation Server, the Web Interface, and Advanced Access Control are all installed on servers within the internal network. Access Gateway is installed in the DMZ. When you install Advanced Access Control, an instance of the Logon Agent is also installed. The Logon Agent provides the user interface for logging on to a server in your access server farm. When a user logs on, they are authenticated by the Access Gateway and directed to their resources subject to the access policies configured in Advanced Access Control.
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Configuring SmartAccess
To configure SmartAccess and make MetaFrame Presentation Server sites available to users you must complete a number of tasks.
Deploy the logon point Create an access policy configured to allow the following: User logon Access to the Web resource
For more information and configuration instructions, see the Access Gateway with Advanced Access Control Administrators Guide.
On Both Servers
Configure workspace control settings for logon points. See Configuring Workspace Control on page 114. Configure Java Client fallback settings for logon points. See Configuring Java Client Fallback on page 114. Configure session time-out settings for logon points. See Configuring Session Time-Out on page 114.
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Creating Sites
You must create MetaFrame Presentation Server sites configured for use with SmartAccess. Note You must use Version 4.2 of the console to create and manage sites for use with SmartAccess. Version 4.0 of the console or command line tool cannot be used to manage sites created with later versions of the console. To create sites for use with SmartAccess 1. Under Common Tasks in the task pane, click Create Site. The Create Site wizard appears. 2. On the Site Type page, select MetaFrame Presentation Server and click Next. 3. On the IIS Hosting page, enter your required settings. Click Next. 4. On the Configuration Source page, enter your required settings. Click Next. 5. On the Access Method page, select Using Advanced Access Control and enter the Advanced Access Control authentication service URL created when you installed Advanced Access Control (see the Access Gateway with Advanced Access Control Administrators Guide for further information). For example: http://aac.server.net/CitrixAuthService/AuthService.asmx 6. Click Next. 7. Complete the remainder of the wizard according to the on-screen instructions. Click Finish.
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3. In the First system.web section of web.config, add a sessionState element to declare a new time-out value in minutes. 4. For example, to change the session time-out to one hour, add the line (in bold) to web.config:
<configuration> <system.web> <sessionState timeout="60" /> <compilation debug="false" defaultLanguage="C#"> <assemblies>
5. Save and then close the file. Note web.config entries are case-sensitive; therefore, use sessionState and not sessionstate. The settings take effect immediately.
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Overview
This chapter provides information about deploying and using MetaFrame Presentation Server Clients with the Web Interface. It explains how to deploy clients using the Web-based client installation feature, and provides additional information about the Client for Java. Topics include: Using Web-Based Client Installation Client for Java Overview The Program Neighborhood Agent Overview
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This screen capture shows an example installation caption that may appear in the users Login page.
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2. Insert the Components CD-ROM in the Web servers CD-ROM drive or browse the network for a shared Components CD image. 3. Change directories to the CDs \ICAWEB directory. Copy the contents from the \ICAWEB directory to the CD into the \ICAWEB directory on the server running the Web Interface. Make sure you copy the contents of the directory and not the \ICAWEB directory itself.
To configure the Web Interface to offer a different Client for Win32 1. Open the WebInterface.conf file. 2. Edit the ICAWebClient parameter. For example:
ICAWebClient=wficat.cab
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The OverrideClientInstallCaption parameter specifies a custom message that can be displayed along with the download links for the clients. By default, this parameter is commented out by a number sign (#) at the beginning of the line and the default messages are used. The default message is specific to the identified client platform, and is similar to the following: You do not have the Client (ActiveX) for 32-bit Windows installed on your system. You must install the client to launch the applications. Select the icon below to install the client. To display a custom message with the download links 1. Open the WebInterface.conf file. 2. Edit the OverrideClientInstallCaption parameter. For example:
OverrideClientInstallCaption=Please install a client. Here are the clients we offer:
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The console provides a tool to view and change current settings. Parameters and values from the config.xml file are displayed in the interface, allowing you to make changes by selecting options and entering values in fields. For more information about Program Neighborhood Agent configuration using the console, see Configuring Sites Using the Console on page 44. For specific information about installing and configuring the Program Neighborhood Agent, see the Client for 32-bit Windows Administrator's Guide.
What to Do Next
For information about security considerations, see Chapter 5, Configuring Web Interface Security on page 123.
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Overview
This chapter provides information about how to secure your data in a Web Interface environment. Topics include: Introduction to Web Interface Security Securing Web Interface Communication Securing the Program Neighborhood Agent with SSL Server Running the Web Interface/MetaFrame Presentation Server Communication Client Session/MetaFrame Presentation Server Communication General Security Considerations
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This diagram shows how the client device interacts with the server running MetaFrame Presentation Server and the server running the Web Interface.
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ICA Encryption
Using ICA encryption, you can encrypt the information sent between a server and a client. This makes it difficult for unauthorized users to interpret an encrypted transmission. Therefore, ICA encryption provides confidentiality to guard against the threat of eavesdropping. However, there are other security risks and using encryption is only one aspect of a comprehensive security policy. Unlike SSL/TLS, ICA encryption does not provide authentication of the server. Therefore information could, in theory, be intercepted as it crosses the network and rerouted to a counterfeit server. Also, ICA encryption does not provide integrity checking. ICA encryption is not available for MetaFrame Presentation Server for UNIX servers.
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Secure Gateway
You can use the Secure Gateway with the Web Interface to provide a single, secure, encrypted point of access through the Internet to servers on the internal corporate networks. The Secure Gateway acts as a secure Internet gateway between SSL/TLS-enabled clients and servers. The Internet portion of traffic between client devices and the Secure Gateway server is encrypted using SSL/TLS. This means that users can access information remotely without compromising security. The Secure Gateway also simplifies certificate management, because you require a certificate only on the Secure Gateway server, rather than on every server in the farm.
This diagram shows how the Secure Gateway secures communication between SSL/ TLS-enabled clients and servers.
For more information about the Secure Gateway, see the Secure Gateway Administrators Guide. For information about how to configure the Web Interface for Secure Gateway support using the Access Suite Console, see Editing Secure Gateway Settings on page 71.
Tip To ensure that only ICA connections using SSL (typically port 443) are allowed through a firewall, ensure port 1494 is blocked and open port 2598.
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To secure the connection between the Program Neighborhood Agent and the server using SSL, follow the instructions in Managing Secure Client Access on page 70 to configure the Web Interface to use SSL. Check the Enable SSL box in the ICA Client Options tab of the application properties dialog box in the Management Console.
Example
If the line specifying Request/Resource/Location is <Location>http:// server3.eng.citrix.com/Citrix/PNAgent/launch.aspx</Location>, change it to <Location>https://server3.eng.citrix.com/Citrix/PNAgent/launch.aspx </Location>.
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ICA files. When the user selects an application, the Web server sends an ICA file for that application to the browser. The ICA file contains a ticket that can be used to log on to the server (except in the case of smart card authentication). ICA files do not include a ticket for pass-through authentication.
Risks
Attackers can exploit Web Interface data as it crosses the network between the Web server and browser and as it is written on the client device itself: An attacker can intercept logon data, the session cookie, and HTML pages in transit between the Web server and Web browser. Although the session cookie used by the Web Interface is transient and disappears when the user closes the Web browser, an attacker with access to the client devices Web browser can retrieve the cookie and possibly use credential information. Although the ICA file does not contain any user credentials, it contains a one-time use ticket that expires in 200 seconds, by default. An attacker may be able to use the intercepted ICA file to connect to the server before the authorized user can use the ticket and make the connection. If single sign-on is enabled, an attacker could send the user an ICA file that causes the users credentials to be misrouted to an unauthorized or counterfeit server.
Recommendations
The following recommendations combine industry-standard security practices with Citrix-provided safeguards to protect data traveling between client devices and the Web server and data written to client devices.
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In a Web Interface deployment, SSL/TLS authentication and encryption create a secure connection over which the user can pass credentials posted in the Log In page. Data sent from the Web server, including the credentials cookie, ICA files, and HTML application list pages, is equally secure. To implement SSL/TLS technology on your network, you must have an SSL/TLS-capable Web server and SSL/TLS-capable Web browsers. The use of these products is transparent to the Web Interface. You do not need to configure Web servers or browsers for the Web Interface. For information about configuring the Web server to support SSL/TLS, see the Web servers documentation. Important Many SSL/TLS-capable Web servers use TCP/IP port 443 for HTTP communications. By default, the Citrix SSL Relay uses this port as well. If your Web server is also a server running the Citrix SSL Relay, make sure you configure either the Web server or Citrix SSL Relay to use a different port.
Risks
The Web Interface XML protocol uses clear text to exchange all data with the exception of passwords, which it passes using obfuscation. The XML communication is vulnerable to the following attacks: An attacker can intercept the XML traffic and steal application set information and tickets. An attacker with the ability to crack the obfuscation can obtain user credentials as well.
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Recommendations
Citrix recommends implementing one of the following security measures for securing the XML traffic between the Web server and server farm: Use Citrix SSL Relay as a security intermediary between the Web server and server farm. Citrix SSL Relay performs host authentication and data encryption. In deployments that do not support running the Citrix SSL Relay, run the server running the Web Interface on the server running MetaFrame Presentation Server. Use the HTTPS protocol to send Web Interface data over a secure HTTP connection using SSL if IIS is installed on the server for another purpose.
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To configure the Web Interface to use Citrix SSL Relay using WebInterface.conf 1. Open the WebInterface.conf file. 2. Change the SSLRelayPort setting in the Farmn parameter to the port number of the Citrix SSL Relay on the server. 3. Change the value of the Transport setting in the Farmn parameter to SSL. Tip For an example of how to configure the Web Interface to use Citrix SSL Relay using WebInterface.conf, see Configuring Citrix SSL Relay Communication on page 107.
If you want to add support for other certificate authorities, you must add the certificate authoritys root certificate to the server running the Web Interface. To add a new root certificate to the server running the Web Interface Copy the root certificate to your Web server. On Windows, the certificate is copied using the Certificate Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Snap-In. On UNIX, copy the certificate to the ./cacerts directory.
For information about certificates, see the installation chapter of the MetaFrame Presentation Server Administrators Guide. For MetaFrame Presentation Server for UNIX servers, see the Citrix SSL Relay for UNIX Administrators Guide.
Enabling the Server Running the Web Interface on the MetaFrame Server
For those deployments that do not support the Citrix SSL Relay, you can eliminate the possibility of network attack by running a Web server on the server supplying the Web Interface data. Hosting your Web Interface sites on such a Web server routes all Web Interface requests to the Citrix XML Service on the local host, thereby eliminating transmission of the Web Interface data across the network. However, the benefit of eliminating network transmission must be weighed against the risk of exploitation of the Web server.
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Note On MetaFrame Presentation Server systems, Setup lets you force the Citrix XML Service to share Internet Information Servicess TCP/IP port instead of using a dedicated port. If you enable port sharing, the Citrix XML Service and the Web server use the same port by default. At minimum, you can place both the Web server and the server running MetaFrame Presentation Server behind a firewall so that the communication between the two is not exposed to open Internet conditions. In this scenario, client devices must be able to communicate through the firewall to both the Web server and the server running MetaFrame Presentation Server. The firewall must permit HTTP traffic (often over the standard HTTP port 80 or 443 if a secure Web server is in use) for client device to Web server communication. For client to server communication, the firewall must permit inbound ICA traffic on port 1494 and port 2598. See the server documentation for information about using ICA with network firewalls. For information about using the Web Interface with network address translation, see the Customizing the Web Interface guide.
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Risks
To capture and interpret client to server network communications, an attacker must be able to crack the binary client protocol. An attacker with binary client protocol knowledge can: Intercept initialization request information sent from the client, including user credentials Intercept client session information including text and mouse clicks entered by users and screen updates sent from the server
Recommendations
Use SSL/TLS or ICA Encryption
Citrix recommends implementing SSL/TLS or ICA encryption to secure the traffic between your clients and servers. Both methods support 128-bit encryption of the data stream between the client and server, but SSL/TLS also supports verification of the identity of the server. Support for SSL is included in Feature Release 1 for MetaFrame XP and higher, and Feature Release 1 for MetaFrame for UNIX and higher. Support for SSL/TLS is included in Feature Release 2 for MetaFrame XP and higher. Support for ICA encryption is included in Feature Release 1 for MetaFrame 1.8 and MetaFrame Presentation Server and higher. See the client documentation or the Citrix download site for a list of clients that support each method. See the MetaFrame Presentation Server Administrators Guide for more information about ICA encryption.
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Overview
This chapter introduces the Program Neighborhood Agent and explains how to configure this feature using the config.xml file. Topics include: Using the Program Neighborhood Agent Using the Access Suite Console for Configuration Using the config.xml File Configuring the Web Interface with Program Neighborhood Agent Securing the Program Neighborhood Agent with SSL
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UserInterface. Specifies whether to hide or display certain groups of options presented to the user as part of the Program Neighborhood Agent interface. FileCleanup. Do not edit. ICA_Options. Specifies the audio and video options for client connections. This corresponds to the options on the ICA Options tab of the Program Neighborhood Agent Properties dialog box.
For more information about using the config.xml file, see the Client for 32-bit Windows Administrator's Guide.
ForceLoginDomain
N/A
LoginType NDSTreeName
N/A N/A
To configure the Web Interface when using the Program Neighborhood Agent 1. Open the WebInterface.conf file. 2. Locate the following parameters: AuthenticationMethods ForceLoginDomain
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LoginType NDSTreeName
3. Amend the settings for these parameters as described in the table above. 4. Restart the server running the Web Interface to apply the changes. For more information about config.xml settings, see the Client for 32-bit Windows Administrator's Guide. For more information about WebInterface.conf file settings, see Configuring the Web Interface Using the Configuration File on page 91.
To secure the connection between the Program Neighborhood Agent and the server using SSL, follow the instructions in Managing Secure Client Access on page 70 to configure the Web Interface to use SSL. Check the Enable SSL box in the ICA Client Options tab of the application properties dialog box in the Management Console.
Example
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Access Suite Console 42 about 42 getting started 45 using 44 Acrobat Reader requirements 11 address translation configuring 70 mapping 73 address translations editing 73 Advanced Access Control integration with 15, 110 advanced server settings 51 anonymous authentication 54 security considerations 54 application publishing 16 application refresh options 86 application sets 16 application shortcuts managing 68 appsrv.ini file editing for pass-through 59 editing for smart card support 55 authentication anonymous 54 configuring 53 explicit 53, 59 methods 53 pass-through 53, 57 pass-through with smart card 53 prompt 53, 59 recommendations 54 smart card 53 two-factor 60
C
certificate key size 125 Citrix SSL Relay configuring the Web Interface for 50, 107 overview 126 see also SSL Citrix XML Service configuring communication with 52, 106 configuring fault tolerance 49 role in the Web Interface 17 TCP/IP port configuration 50 viewing the port assignment 29 classes 17 client configuration files managing 85 client connection settings managing 83 client deployment managing 74 client devices requirements 27 role in the Web Interface 17 security 128, 134 client files copying to the server 118 Client for Java deployment of components 78 overview 121 using private root certificates with 79 Client for Win32 configuring for pass-through 58 configuring for smart card support 55 deploying automatically 76 installation files 119 Program Neighborhood Agent 121 client installation 77 clients deploying with custom certificates 80 download settings 77 installation 77 user customization 83 client-side proxy settings editing 82 command line 34
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bandwidth control 84
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Components CD 27 Conferencing Manager configuring on UNIX 33 Conferencing Manager Guest Attendee sites 13 configuration files exporting 91 importing 91 configure and run discovery 36, 45 configuring SmartAccess 112 using the Access Suite Console 42 config.xml 42, 121 about 138 content publishing 14 content redirection enabling 52 context-sensitive help 44 cookies 128 creating sites 37, 46
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help displaying 44 HTTP 50 HTTPS 50 HTTPS protocol 133
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ICA Encryption 126, 134 ICA files 129 initialization 134 installation using the command line 34 installation captions 77, 118, 120 installing on UNIX platforms 32 on Windows 30 overview 28 security considerations 29 integration with Advanced Access Control 15, 110 Internet Information Services requirements 25
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Dell Axim requirements 27 deploying SmartAccess 111 diagnostic logging controlling 89 discovery 45 DMZ settings editing 70 documentation other sources 10
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JavaServer Pages 43
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language packs 34 legacy support 78 load balancing between Secure Ticket Authorities 72 XML requests 49 load balancing sites 89 local site tasks 90 Login page making the default 108
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enabling content redirection 52 socket pooling 51 error messages disabling 107 expiry time of tickets 50 explicit authentication 53
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MetaFrame Presentation Server UNIX configuration requirements 25 MetaFrame Presentation Server for UNIX determining Citrix XML service ports 29 MetaFrame Presentation Server sites 12 Microsoft domain-based authentication 60
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fault tolerance configuring 49, 72 firewall configuring address translation 70
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RSA SecurID authentication 59 PASSCODES 61 tokencodes 61 running discovery 36, 45
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navigation page 110 integration with 16 NDS authentication 23, 60 support 13 network address translation 70 Novell Directory Services see NDS
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Safari requirements 27 SafeWord authentication 59 secure client access 70 secure client access settings displaying 73 Secure Gateway about 127 between clients and MetaFrame Presentation Server 135 configuring the Web Interface for 71 example of how to configure 107 ticketing 71 Secure Sockets Layer see SSL Secure Ticket Authority 71 SecureICA see ICA Encryption securing the Web Interface 127 security 123 and anonymous authentication 54 Citrix SSL Relay client-to-server communication 127 configuring the Citrix SSL Relay 131 general considerations 135 ICA Encryption 126 network communication 128, 130 client and server 134 protocols and Citrix solutions 125 Secure Gateway 127 between clients and MetaFrame Presentation Server 135 configuring the Web Interface for 71 SSL adding certificates 132 between clients and MetaFrame Presentation Server 134 between Web server and Web browser 129 TLS between clients and MetaFrame Presentation
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online help 44
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pass-through configuring 57 pass-through authentication 53 pass-through with smart card 53 password enabling users to change 59 performance considerations 29 Personal Digital Assistants requirements 27 supported configurations 27 private root certificates 79 Program Neighborhood Agent 121 about 121 configuration 42 configuration settings 105 configuring 138 config.xml 138 securing 128, 140 Program Neighborhood Agent Services sites 13 prompt authentication 53 publishing applications 16 publishing content 14
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readme file 10 Remote Desktop Connection and the Trusted Sites zone 75 requirements 75 Repair option 39 repairing sites 90
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socket pooling enabling 51 SSL adding certificates 132 and Secure Gateway 71 between clients and MetaFrame Presentation Server 134 certificate key size 125 configuring the Citrix SSL Relay 131 overview 125 secure Web servers 129 see Citrix SSL Relay support support for SmartAccess 15 system requirements 2227 client device 27 SmartAccess 110 Web server 25
Server 134 between Web server and Web browser 129 overview 125 when installing the Web Interface 29 server farms creating 48 managing 47 password change considerations 48 removing 48 role in the Web Interface 16 specifying settings for all servers 50 server settings managing 69 specifying advanced 51 servers configuring communication with 106 role in the Web Interface 17 scripts 43 security 129 security considerations 134 session options changing 67 sessions see client sessions site configuration 38 site tasks using 38 using local 90 site types 46 sites configuring using the Access Suite Console 44 creating 37, 46 creating for use with SmartAccess 113 creating on UNIX 38 load balancing 89 repairing 90 specifying configuration 38 uninstalling 90 smart card about 53 enabling 54 example of how to configure 56 requirements 55 SmartAccess 15, 110 and workspace control 114 configuring 112 creating sites for use with 113 deploying 111 support for 15 system requirements 110
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tasks performing 47 ticketing 15, 129 and Secure Gateway 71 configuring ticket expiry time 50 TLS and Secure Gateway 71 between clients and MetaFrame Presentation Server 134 certificate key size 125 overview 125 secure Web servers 129 troubleshooting installation 39 two-factor authentication 60
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Unicode ICA files 78 uninstalling 39 uninstalling sites 90 UNIX platforms installing on 31 upgrading 28 UPN authentication 60 restricting suffixes 60 support
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Web Client deploying 76 Web Interface configuring 42 configuring with Program Neighborhood Agent 139 features 12 how it works 18 introduction 12 making available to users 108 overview 18 running on a server 132 Web server requirements 25 Web-based client installation 17 copying clients to the server 118 WebInterface.conf about 42 configuring the Web Interface with 91 parameters 92 Windows authentication 60 Windows Directory Service Mapper 56 Windows platforms installing on 30 Windows-based Terminals 27 workspace control about 86 and SmartAccess 114 automatic reconnection 88 enabling 88 log off behavior 88 reconnect option 88 requirements 86 with integrated authentication 87