Restrictions Launching an app from a published app

[timscronin]

Have run into critical issue. We have a vendor supplied app where they let us call an application from inside of their published application. If I call a app (have tried a C, VB6, and dotnet app) when running as a fat client they launch fine. However, if I am running the vendor supplied app as a ctrix client it will not launch the application (they all attach to a db, but it does not seem they we are even getting that far). It will launch notepad or Query analyzer. Anyone seen this before?

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Sounds like the app is not Terminal Server aware - you may be able to get around this by editing *.ini files, or you may be able to persuade the developers to modify the code accordingly.

Try running Filemon, from

http://www.sysinternals.com

at the same time as this program. It MAY show where the program is attempting to launch the external application from. In which case it should be relatively simple to make necessary adjustments.

I came across similar issues with a VB front-end that was supplied to my client by ICL. ICL were really good and modified the code to make it more compliant, and exposed extra parts in the API so that we could tailor *.ini files.

Hope this helps.