Keeping A Citrix Session Alive?
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From: Samantha Turner on 16 Nov 2009 14:27 I'm having a similar problem. Because of compliance rules developed outside my company, we have implemented a 15 minute time out on the citrix connections. In reality, the rule states that the user is required to retype their password in order to regain access to the application(s) they are running. That's really what I would like to implement, but our IT staff hasn't found a way to do this yet so we have the timeout which ends all applications to which they are connected. What I would really like is.... If a user is connected to a database via MS Access and Crystal Reports and a 3rd application and they walk away to get coffee, when they come back to their desk 20 minutes later, I'd like for them to just be able to type their password and have their everything where it was when they walked away (similar to the Lock Computer option on windows). If anyone knows of how to do this, I'd be very grateful! Thanks! *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***
From: paii, Ron on 16 Nov 2009 15:37 "Samantha Turner" <sturner(a)accessint.com> wrote in message news:4b01a789$0$89394$815e3792(a)news.qwest.net... > I'm having a similar problem. Because of compliance rules developed > outside my company, we have implemented a 15 minute time out on the > citrix connections. In reality, the rule states that the user is > required to retype their password in order to regain access to the > application(s) they are running. That's really what I would like to > implement, but our IT staff hasn't found a way to do this yet so we have > the timeout which ends all applications to which they are connected. > > What I would really like is.... If a user is connected to a database via > MS Access and Crystal Reports and a 3rd application and they walk away > to get coffee, when they come back to their desk 20 minutes later, I'd > like for them to just be able to type their password and have their > everything where it was when they walked away (similar to the Lock > Computer option on windows). If anyone knows of how to do this, I'd be > very grateful! > > Thanks! > > > > *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Can you have your IT group change it to Disconnect after 15 min and not Reset. If they are doing a Reset on time-out, are you having any issues with corruption?
From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 17 Nov 2009 00:53 Samantha Turner <sturner(a)accessint.com> wrote: >I'm having a similar problem. Because of compliance rules developed >outside my company, we have implemented a 15 minute time out on the >citrix connections. In reality, the rule states that the user is >required to retype their password in order to regain access to the >application(s) they are running. That's really what I would like to >implement, but our IT staff hasn't found a way to do this yet so we have >the timeout which ends all applications to which they are connected. Your IT staff can't figure out how the users get back to their apps by rekeying their password? Umm, that's default behavior unless Citrix changed things there. And that's a very basic setting so if they can't figure it out either 1) they're lying 2) they're remarkably incompetent. I administer my Terminal Server remotely. Indeed I've only seen it "in the flesh" so to speak a few times in the past five or six years. I TS/RDP in, work away and close the session. Days later I can open up the session and everthing is right where I left it. >What I would really like is.... If a user is connected to a database via >MS Access and Crystal Reports and a 3rd application and they walk away >to get coffee, when they come back to their desk 20 minutes later, I'd >like for them to just be able to type their password and have their >everything where it was when they walked away (similar to the Lock >Computer option on windows). If anyone knows of how to do this, I'd be >very grateful! You can't do this from Access. This is a Citrix/Terminal server setting. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a free, convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 17 Nov 2009 00:55 "paii, Ron" <none(a)no.com> wrote: >If they are doing a Reset on time-out, are you having any issues with >corruption? Shuttong down a TS/Citrix session is very unlikely to cause corruptions. 1) after fifteen minutes any batch processing is likely to have finished. 2) I would think that TS/Citrix would send a program shutdown message to the apps running inside the session which would then gracefully end. Now what might not happen is your last updates which you haven't completed on the form might not make it to the data storage. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a free, convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: Samantha Turner on 17 Nov 2009 06:33
Thanks for the responses! I should have mentioned that before we had things set up this way, the timeout was set up differently and the citrix window with the app icons would timeout but, when the users came back to their workstations, they still had access to work in the applications they had already opened. This conflicts with the rules that we are required to comply with. I also should have explained about the Access and Crystal better, I guess. Those are applications that the users have published to them once they login to Citrix. So, if the user opens these applications, i.e. connected to a database, and they walk away from their machine for 15 minutes, I need them to have to enter their password in order to continue working in these applications. I'm even okay with them having to log back into Citrix and then have the applications right where they left off, but I can't have the open applications available to them once the idle timeout has been reached. Tony, if you can relay to me how I would go about setting this up, I would be grateful! Thanks! Sam *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** |