If I have a citrix server, and open those apps ona linux machine w/ Firefox, whould they work? I think they would and that would be cool! If someboady made a super citrix server, we could all login into it without using wine, correct? (well, everybody would have to get an account to login).

-Colin Stuart

The short answer is yes you can. I have a Citrix client installed here and I can run Windows apps from our Citrix farm. It's just a little weird seeing them there beside the Linux stuff...

One of the Windows fans in another office here tells me that MS is pushing for Citrix users to have to have a Windows licence. If that's correct, eventually not only will you have to have enough application licences for all of the apps that you serve up via Citrix, but there will need to be a valid Windows licence for each client even if the client is on Linux.

The reasoning is that to display the application you need the Windows stuff that goes with it. For example, the Save as and Open dialog boxes are part of Windows, not the application. I haven't checked this out yet, but if it's true, it would push up the cost of Citrix as a solution.

Citrix has a native linux client, I don't think you don't need ANY windows files on the viewing machine (I.E like a diskless workstation or thinclient. You are supposed to have a CAL (client access license) for each PC connecting to the server.

I'm not saying you need any windows files on the viewing machine. The argument as it was put to me was about dialog boxes that are part of Windows and not the application (the examples were for File Open and File Save). The underlying OS that the Citrix client is running on is not related to that.

Regardless, it hasn't happened yet (and may not). I only offered it to show that Citrix may not be the simple solution that it looked to be.

@gilead

You said "I have a Citrix client installed here and I can run Windows apps from our Citrix farm" is that from your company? Or is that yours? If it was yours, I would just ask you if I could login to it (I've never used one before, but it looks very intresting)(I have used Testdrive, but that I think doesn't have the real feel of actuall having the app on your desktop).

Unfortunately it's at work. We provide remote access to users over https but it requires an RSA token as well as a username/password for NetWare once the token's info is successfully processed.

Do you know any Citrix neighborhoods or Access 4.0 server stuff there letting people login for free?

Not off hand. I don't think you'll have much luck with this since the Citrix administrator is going to have pay licence fees based on the number of clients, they're not going to be letting people access their servers from outside their controlled environment.