Can't launch Citrix sessions from Firefox.

[SlntKngt]

Hi,

I'm new to using Linux so I apologise in advance for any stupid questions!

I'm using Fedora 17 x64.

I do work remotely through the use of Citrix. Now my problem currently is that when I've got Firefox open and logged into our Access Gateway and select an application to launch a pop-up appears asking me to save or open the 'launch.jsp' file. The default application that is trying to open the file is gpedit.

I have installed jre-7u7-linux-x64 on the system and enabled the QuickJava 1.8.0 extension in Firefox. Java/JRE does not appear as an option in FireFox to add on.

I have configure the Citrix ICA settings file in FireFox Application Preferences to be opened by default with wfica (/opt/Citrix/ICAClient/wfica).

The latest Citrix Receiver client is also installed on the system.

What am I missing? Is there some type file association that I need to manually make in order to launch applications automatically through FireFox when selected?

Cheers,
Hanre

[lklaus]

Are you running in SELinux enforcing mode? If yes, you'll have to extend your policy, as the citrix plugin tries to write into the home directory (I'm using Citrix plugin also for the access to some company terminal servers).

Set SELinux in permissive mode, start your session and terminate it after successful connection and then do, as root

"ausearch -m avc -ts recent" (if the session was shorter than 15 minyutes, else use -ts hh:mm:ss). Check fror citrix or plugin (I can't remember which, and I don't have access to the machine where I created the policy)

Then "grep <what you found> /var/log/audit/audit.log|audit2allow -M mycitrix" and then "semodule -i mycitrix"
And don't forget to switch back to enforcing.

Klaus

[SlntKngt]

Thanks Klaus but my problem is that I actually can't launch any applications in order to start a session.

When I select any application it just goes to the FireFox download screen and shows that the "launch.jsp" file has successfully downloaded. I need to figure out how to stop this behaviour so that the application just starts up automatically once I select it.

[lklaus]

SlntKngt,

what does aboutlugins say?

Mine says, besides others,

Citrix Receiver for Linux

    File: npica.so
    Version: 
    ICA Plugin (Linux) Version 11.100.158406 (/opt/Citrix/ICAClient/wfica)

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes
application/x-ica 	Handles ICA connections 	ica

And

klaus@acer:~$ locate npica.so
/opt/Citrix/ICAClient/npica.so
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/npica.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npica.so
/usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/npica.so
klaus@acer:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/npica.so
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 30 Aug 10 15:28 /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/npica.so -> /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/npica.so
klaus@acer:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npica.so
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 30 Aug 10 15:28 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npica.so -> /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/npica.so
klaus@acer:~$

[velsd]

I had a very similar problem: everything installed and configured according to the help specified on the citrix site itself. but always downloading a "launch.jsp" file, instead of a working connection.

I solved this eventually by starting firefox from a command line, and then noticing the error messages that firefox was outputting when I tried to launch a session.

it was complaining about a missing library (libXaut7-whatever), and I finally understood that citrix needs the 32 bit versions of these libraries. installed them, and... everything worked!

hope this tip of starting from the command line and looking at the output helps someone else ...