Best product for my citrix boxes startup in IE for Web

[hfidan]

I need to find a method or product so my users boxes will start up in IE for the web client. Any suggestion would be helpful
Thanks

 

[MikeBatters]

We have done this many different ways:

A really simple on eis to just drop a url link in to start up pointing at the appropriate page and a second is to fire a "start

http://1.2.3.4/"

from a login script if applicable.

I think that is one answer to the question you are asking but if not please elabolrate on the situation,

Regards,

 

[hfidan]

I have done that suggestion, what I am looking for is a method to prevent an user to anything else but use the citrix web access. I have used fortress for student computers but I need that will not work.
Thanks again

 

[ascotta]

The school I know of use Wyse Winterms. They cannot do anything else but connect to Citrix.

[blue]Arguably the best cat skinner around ! [/blue]

Cheers
Scott

 

[MikeBatters]

In similar cicumstances to your we deploy Wyse / VXL Terminals for our clients. At power up they autoconenct to the citrix farm and if you log out of Citrix the only option it to turn the terminal off or log back in - thats it.

Some of the VXL Linux based Terminals are about £135 each which is not far off as cheap as buying a software product to do that same job.

 

[dudenjersey]

Give Neoware look, excellant product. Download the trial version.

 

[terrywilson]

Are you using Win9x boxes? If you are you could always change the shell to be iexplore - I think you change shell=explorer.exe to shell=c:\progra~1\intern~1\iexplore.exe (or something similar) to get ie to become the default shell when you boot windows. If you do this you can also launch it in kiosk mode (using -k) and that will full screen the ie window as if you had pressed F11. Set the start page to be your web interface login and away you go.

There was a page that I found the other day - but for the life of me I cannot find now - that had a couple of freeware programs for launching ICA shortcuts on startup that sounded pretty cool.

 

[hfidan]

Terry
Yes, they are win98 boxes.That is what I am looking for. I have been working on this line, and if you do find the links please post.
Thanks again.

 

[terrywilson]

Here is a link that looks worth checking out:

http://www.thinworkplace.com/article_read.asp?id=45

I have looked at neoware; and while its a great looking product, but its probably getting hear to uneconomic - for us to purchase in NZ anyway; with their current special we look at paying 2/3 the cost of a terminal for the software - while its a good tool it does leave us with lots of older PC's still cluttering up the place. Just my opinion; when you add it up over a large enterprise, 1/3 is a very considerable amount - but it wasn't enough to convince me it was better than a terminal.