Citrix Web-Based ICA Client Installation

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Assumptions

The instructions provided in the following sections address a typical installation of the ICA Client download site on a Windows NT based Web server.  For Web servers other than Windows NT, please consult your Web server documentation.

Usage Notes

Web-based ICA Client Installation provides administrators with an ICA client deployment tool.  Citrix administrators can now deploy ICA 6.0 Clients from an internal Web server.  End users can then connect to this Web server and download the client they need.

Web-based ICA Client Installation consists of two components:

  1. HTML pages

    These HTML pages form the browser interface that users see when they access the ICA Client download site. These pages are distributed as a package on the NFuse I.5 CD and are located in the \webinst directory. Alternatively, you can download the package from the Citrix download site (http://download.citrix.com)

  2. ICA Clients

    Versions of ICA Clients are available for each supported platform, in each supported language.  The supported languages are English (en), German (de), French (fr), Spanish (es), and Japanese (ja).

    ICA Clients are distributed on the ICA 6.0 Client CD and are located in the \icaweb directory. Alternatively, you can download a client archive for Web-based installation from the Citrix download site (http://download.citrix.com)

Note

Language versions of the NFuse 1.5 CD and the ICA 6.0 Client CD are available on separate CDs; that is, one CD per language.

What do You Need to Set Up an ICA Client Download Site?

Web Server Requirements

Note

It is assumed that you already have a Web server up and running, and are familiar with routine installation and configuration tasks.

User's Web Browser Requirements (for downloading clients)

Users must have a standard Web browser installed on the client device to download an ICA client from the Web server. For example:

Steps to Set Up an ICA Client Download Site on a Web Server

To set up a single language version of the ICA Client download site

  1. Create a new directory; for example, \ica60, on the Web server.

    Important: \ica60 will be used throughout this document to represent the target directory on the Web server.

  2. To copy the HTML component to the \ica60 directory, do one of the following:
    1. Insert the NFuse CD into your CD-ROM drive and type the following command at the command prompt to copy the HTML component to the Web server:

      xcopy d:\webinst \ica60 /s

      In the above command, substitute d: with the drive letter corresponding to your CD-ROM drive.

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    2. If the NFuse CD is not available, download the HTML archive from http://download.citrix.com to \ica60 on the Web server.

      Extract the contents of the downloaded archive to \ica60, being careful to ensure that the subdirectory structure is recreated.

      For example, PKUNZIP uses the -d parameter to recreate the subdirectory structure.  To use PKUNZIP to unzip the archive, change the directory to \ica60 and type the following command:

      pkunzip -d <HTML archive>

      Delete the HTML archive file when finished.

  3. To copy the corresponding language version of the ICA clients to the appropriate subdirectory under \ica60, do one of the following:
    1. Insert the appropriate language version of the ICA 6.0 Client CD into your CD-ROM drive, and type the following command at the command prompt:

      xcopy d:\icaweb\en \ica60\en /s

      In the above command, substitute d: with the drive letter corresponding to your CD-ROM drive; and substitute en (identifier for the English subdirectory) with an alternate 2-letter language directory identifier (de, fr, es, or ja) to specify the correct language version of the client images you need.

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    2. If the ICA 6.0 Client CD is not available, download the appropriate ICA 6.0 Client archives from http://download.citrix.com to \ica60 on the Web server.
  4. You now have all the components required for a fully functional ICA Client Download page on your Web server.  As a final step, publish a link to \ica60\setup.htm
  5. To finish, test that the download site is fully functional, and publish end-user instructions on using the download site.

To add other language versions of the ICA Clients to your download site

Set up a single language ICA Client download site on your Web server as described previously.  To add other language versions of the ICA Clients to the download site, do the following:

  1. To copy the HTML component to the appropriate language sub-directory under \ica60, do one of the following:
    1. Insert the NFuse CD into your CD-ROM drive and type the following command at the command prompt to copy the HTML component to the Web server:

      xcopy d:\webinst\de \ica60\de /s

      In the above command, substitute d: with the drive letter corresponding to your CD-ROM drive; and substitute de (identifier for the German subdirectory) with an alternate 2-letter language directory identifier (en, fr, es, or ja) to specify the correct language version of the HTML pages you need to create

      -or-

       

    2. If the NFuse CD is not available, download the appropriate HTML archive from http://download.citrix.com to \ica60 on the Web server.

      Extract the contents of the downloaded archive to \ica60, being careful to ensure that the subdirectory structure is recreated.

      For example, PKUNZIP uses the -d parameter to recreate the subdirectory structure.  To use PKUNZIP to unzip the archive, change the directory to \ica60 and type the following command:

      pkunzip -d <HTML archive> de\*.*

      In the above command, substitute de (identifier for the German sub-directory) with an alternate 2-letter language directory identifier (en, fr, es, or ja) to specify the correct language version of the HTML pages you need to create.  Delete the HTML archive file when done.

  2. To copy the corresponding language versions of the ICA Clients to the appropriate subdirectory under \ica60, do one of the following:
    1. Insert the appropriate language version of the ICA 6.0 Client CD into your CD-ROM drive (there is one Client CD for each language) and type the following command for each language version of the clients that you need:

      xcopy D:\icaweb\de \ica60\de /s

      In the above command, substitute d: with the drive letter corresponding to your CD-ROM drive and substitute de with the 2-letter language directory identifier (en, de, fr, es, or ja) to specify the correct language version of the client images you need.

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    2. If the ICA 6.0 Client CD is not available, download the appropriate ICA 6.0 Client archives from http://download.citrix.com to \ica60 on the Web server.
  3. You now have all the components required for a fully functional ICA Client download site on your Web server.

Repeat this process for each language version of the ICA clients that you need to add to the download site.

 

For more information

Citrix provides technical support primarily through the Citrix Solutions Network (CSN) channel partners. Please contact your supplier for first-line support, or use Citrix Online Technical Support to find the nearest CSN partner.

Citrix offers Online Technical Support Services at http://support.citrix.com

Online Technical Support Services include downloadable ICA clients, Frequently Asked Questions, service packs, Online Knowledge Base, and interactive online support forums.