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Dennis smith-4

Is anyone using VW with citrix ???

We have a client who wants to use this, and we have not.

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Dennis Smith +1 416.798.7948
Cherniak Software Development Corporation Fax: +1 416.798.0948
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Canada http://www.CherniakSoftware.com
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Runar Jordahl

Re: Is anyone using VW with citrix ???

We have many customers using our Wrapper-based application in Citrix
environments. It is years since we had issues with this setup. I am
pretty sure you can advice your customers to try this.

Runar

Dennis smith-4

Re: Is anyone using VW with citrix ???

Thanks to all.

Runar Jordahl wrote:
> We have many customers using our Wrapper-based application in Citrix
> environments. It is years since we had issues with this setup. I am
> pretty sure you can advice your customers to try this.
>
> Runar
>

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Dennis Smith +1 416.798.7948
Cherniak Software Development Corporation Fax: +1 416.798.0948
509-2001 Sheppard Avenue East [hidden email]
Toronto, ON M2J 4Z8 sip:[hidden email]
Canada http://www.CherniakSoftware.com
Entrance off Yorkland Blvd south of Sheppard Ave east of the DVP

Nick Yannakoyorgos-2

Re: Is anyone using VW with citrix ???

In reply to this post by Dennis smith-4

We use Citrix Metaframe on Solaris servers capable of running many
images at the same time. It is an invaluable tool which has been in
production for us for at least 5 years now (maybe even more).

The Citrix client can run on pretty much anything. I have personally
used it on Windows, Solaris and Linux, but I am sure there are more.

Nick

Dennis Smith wrote:
> We have a client who wants to use this, and we have not.
>

Steven Kelly

RE: Is anyone using VW with citrix ???

In reply to this post by Dennis smith-4

Yes, we've had clients using our VW 7.1 app over Citrix across the
Atlantic. Since our app has graphics updating on the fly at high speed,
and the customers said it worked fine, I'd say Citrix is pretty good.

Remote Desktop Connection (and hence Microsoft Terminal Server) is also
good, I've used it with basically all VW versions 7.1-7.4.1. You'll want
to make sure you have BfDepthChangeFix from the public repository if you
leave a local desktop session open to come back to remotely later.

There was another customer with NetOp (Danish (?) remote desktop
software) in use, and that wasn't as good. After closing some dialogs VW
would freeze; pressing the User Interrupt or Emergency Evaluator key
helped. In the end that problem was resolved with a bug fix update to
the NetOp software (7.65 build 2004-317, problem was "some programs do
not receive mouse and keyboard events under Windows 2000").

Just the other day I had a Remote Desktop Connection from my home PC
(XP) to my work PC (XP), where VMWare was running Ubuntu Linux. From
Linux I opened a telnet connection to our ancient Solaris box, set the
DISPLAY to point to the Ubuntu IP, and started up our VW 7.4.1 app on
the Solaris box, displaying to the Ubuntu screen. Everything worked
fine, which was impressive. I've also seen less good results with remote
X servers, but that might just have been when new X versions were having
problems with VW anyway - local or remote.

HTH,
Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Smith [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: 2. marraskuuta 2007 20:46
> To: VWNC,
> Subject: Is anyone using VW with citrix ???
>
>
> We have a client who wants to use this, and we have not.
>
> --
> Dennis Smith +1 416.798.7948
> Cherniak Software Development Corporation Fax: +1 416.798.0948
> 509-2001 Sheppard Avenue East [hidden email]
> Toronto, ON M2J 4Z8 sip:[hidden email]
> Canada http://www.CherniakSoftware.com
> Entrance off Yorkland Blvd south of Sheppard Ave east of the DVP
>
>

Niall Ross

Re: Is anyone using VW with citrix ???

Dear Steve,
I've found recent NetOp releases well-behaved with VW.

(FYI, when pair-programming with NetOp, it is worth creating different
guest and host configurations, with mouse behaviour set approriately in
each.)

Yours faithfully
Niall Ross

>Yes, we've had clients using our VW 7.1 app over Citrix across the
>Atlantic. Since our app has graphics updating on the fly at high speed,
>and the customers said it worked fine, I'd say Citrix is pretty good.
>
>Remote Desktop Connection (and hence Microsoft Terminal Server) is also
>good, I've used it with basically all VW versions 7.1-7.4.1. You'll want
>to make sure you have BfDepthChangeFix from the public repository if you
>leave a local desktop session open to come back to remotely later.
>
>There was another customer with NetOp (Danish (?) remote desktop
>software) in use, and that wasn't as good. After closing some dialogs VW
>would freeze; pressing the User Interrupt or Emergency Evaluator key
>helped. In the end that problem was resolved with a bug fix update to
>the NetOp software (7.65 build 2004-317, problem was "some programs do
>not receive mouse and keyboard events under Windows 2000").
>
>Just the other day I had a Remote Desktop Connection from my home PC
>(XP) to my work PC (XP), where VMWare was running Ubuntu Linux. From
>Linux I opened a telnet connection to our ancient Solaris box, set the
>DISPLAY to point to the Ubuntu IP, and started up our VW 7.4.1 app on
>the Solaris box, displaying to the Ubuntu screen. Everything worked
>fine, which was impressive. I've also seen less good results with remote
>X servers, but that might just have been when new X versions were having
>problems with VW anyway - local or remote.
>
>HTH,
>Steve
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Dennis Smith [mailto:[hidden email]]
>>Sent: 2. marraskuuta 2007 20:46
>>To: VWNC,
>>Subject: Is anyone using VW with citrix ???
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>>We have a client who wants to use this, and we have not.
>>
>>--
>>Dennis Smith +1 416.798.7948
>>Cherniak Software Development Corporation Fax: +1 416.798.0948
>>509-2001 Sheppard Avenue East [hidden email]
>>Toronto, ON M2J 4Z8 sip:[hidden email]
>>Canada http://www.CherniakSoftware.com
>>Entrance off Yorkland Blvd south of Sheppard Ave east of the DVP
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