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by starbury

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Hi all,

My company wants to move in the way of thin clients... We currently have Citrix Metaframe XP server and a few clients connected in a test situation. However we have many sales people who use such devices such as Palm pilots and Blackberry devices, etc. To my understanding these devices are looking for a physical conectiong to a local machine. Is it possible for the communication to occur over tcp/ip connection or through the ica connection. We would like expand this to our sales department, but the last thing we want is to have angry users because they cant sync they can sync their information...
Is this possible?

Thank you

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by rbm100

We have been using citrix for the last 4 years. The biggest headache is the printing issues(we use screwdrivers and it works great). The ica connection is actually faster than tcp/ip for our remotes. Which are P2P T1 lines.

by skidoggeruk

The company I am in, have successfully written an app for the XDA that allows remote database communication through GPRS. Office based staff can see updates and return info back to device.

Theoretically, you might be able to connect through some sort of VPN. Maybe you could re-think your handheld devices?

We have been using Citrix for some time now and have also allowed this through Web access. Which avoids the problems of VPNs and networking fantastically. Basically, I can login anywhere in the world and look at Citrix published app, (there is an authentication that happens).

Still agree that the age old networking problem of printing is still alive and well !! We still get print problems when drivers are not installed on servers, as Citrix "auto-creates", based on clients default printer. If the printer drivers are not installed on server, it guesses a PCL4 driver, with various results.

Good Luck. See if you can't get a shiny new gadget.

by scote_mi

We have been running "web based computing" or n-tiered computing for 3-4 years using light client desktops running Windows 2000 and Citrix and IE for almost all application delivery. The web is the primary direction. Many clients are wired to the network but we also run mobile 802.11. We also use Pocket PC devices and Symbol Windows CE devices. The Symbol devices have their own browser that has proprietary printing functions.

For reporting we built a web reporting model using Actuate for structured reports and HTML for simple output. We have default printers setup for the user LDAP profile.

by matthew moran

I run a Windows 2003 Terminal Server environment. Com port redirection works great for Palms but we have our issues with the Blackberrys. We are still working out that issue.

Search for Terminal Server and Palm Desktop - there are a number of decent articles on implementing it correctly.

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