Application mapping with Terminal services

[tvbruwae]

Hi

Is it possible to interact between a Terminal Services session and a program running locally on a client's desktop? I need some interaction between an application installed on the Terminal Server, which calls a local application that sends back data to this remote app. I know there is clipboard redirection, but is there any other (more direct) way to exchange data between a TS session and a local program?

Thanks.

 

[CitrixEngineer]

You could use \\%clientdrive%\app_path\appname, but exchanging data this way would make for a very slow connection - RDP wasn't designed for data transfer, just screen, mouse and keyboard updates.

You'd be better off, performance-wise, ftp'ing the files from the server to run in the local app.

Couldn't the client's app run on the Terminal Server desktop also?

HTH CE

 

[tvbruwae]

At first I wanted to install the second application (MS Excel) locally on the client's desktops for performance reasons. But since I haven't found any known procedures to dynamically exchange data between remote and local applications, I guess installing MS Office on the Terminal Server will be the best option.

Thanks