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speirsYO
2nd June 2006, 01:25 PM
Hi all.

Finally got my Airport Extreme to work on my iBook G4 with FC5 I really want to switch from Mac OS X to FC5. As it seems one thing is still holding me back though: Citrix. I need to use Citrix for my work and Iīve stumbled upon a few Citrix client but none are for PPC. Who knows what to do?

I goofed around a bit with rdesktop but it doesn work for me. I guess itś my lack of Linux experience but it could also be that we have a rather typical Citrix setup. So who knows if there are clients for FC5 on Mac? Or how to get it to work in any other way? FWIW: On the Mac we are using Citrix ICA client.

Many thanks,

speirs
brunson
2nd June 2006, 03:20 PM
Citrix is a closed source proprietary product. The only thing you can do is petition the authors to compile it for PPC.

Long live Open Source.
speirsYO
2nd June 2006, 03:25 PM

:eek:

So thereīs no way to make this work?

PS. Thanks for your reply. ;-)
tebbens
2nd June 2006, 03:34 PM
Why not setup VNC instead ?

http://www.tightvnc.com/
speirsYO
2nd June 2006, 03:44 PM
Although I donīt think this will work for me* I get installation errors (Missing Dependency)...

* There are a lot of users using more then one appliccations, I canīt imagine how TightVNC could fit in/replace Citrix ICA client
tebbens
2nd June 2006, 03:58 PM
If Citrix is not available for Linux PPC you have to move on, find another solution.

I'm not sure what Citrix is.... but if you are trying to setup a remote desktop solution VNC works great.
I can TightVNC (stand-alone or through SSH) to my FC5 system with no problems from a Windows or Linux system.
brunson
2nd June 2006, 04:03 PM
Citrix is an enterprise class server solution for thin client remote desktops. If his workplace has a Citrix infrastructure, he's not going to be able to use VNC or NX or anything else.
speirsYO
2nd June 2006, 05:19 PM
Citrix is an enterprise class server solution for thin client remote desktops. If his workplace has a Citrix infrastructure, he's not going to be able to use VNC or NX or anything else.
This is correct. I really need to get a Citrix client or something that does the same.

Thanks all for all the responses up to this point. Any suggestions are appreciated!
brunson
2nd June 2006, 05:40 PM
Unfortunately the last mention of it I could find on the Citrix boards was from 2004:
http://support.citrix.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=244808

Try posting a new request, you may get lucky and start a revolution. Other than that, you're fuxor3d, don't lose that OS X DVD. :-)
speirsYO
2nd June 2006, 08:15 PM
Unfortunately the last mention of it I could find on the Citrix boards was from 2004:
http://support.citrix.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=244808

Try posting a new request, you may get lucky and start a revolution. Other than that, you're fuxor3d, don't lose that OS X DVD. :-)
Yes I already found that thread, this sucks... :(

Back to Mac OS X I guess. This is the only thing holding me back.