Question

Grab Citrix Username in the Browser

Asked by: trower

Hi

Firstly I hope this is the right place to post, if it isn't could someone tell me where to go, nicely

We have an Intranet and when people are in the office we capture their details like this so that we can personalise the page they see:

var WshNetwork = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Network");
alert("using the WScript method");
alert(WshNetwork.Username);
alert(WshNetwork.UserDomain);

or

var oShell=new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
alert("using the oShell method");
alert(oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%USERNAME%"));
alert(oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%USERDOMAIN%"));

but when the person is logged on to Citrix all this reports is the local username and domain and not the one they are logged into.

Is there a way to ascertain who is logged on in the browser when the person is at home ?

I should add that we are using Lotus Notes / Domino to display our Intranet

Thanks
Paul

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2009-03-05 at 00:45:29ID24200644
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Answers

 

by: nprignanoPosted on 2009-03-16 at 14:55:02ID: 23902857

If it is displaying the local username and password, it sounds like the script is running on the local browser.  Where is the script running - you say Lotus Notes - is Notes published or locally installed?

 

by: trowerPosted on 2009-03-17 at 01:39:41ID: 23905643

Hi nprignano,

The script is running on the browser and it is some client side code that I am after.

I only added that we use Notes/Domino to serve up our pages for completeness.

Thanks for the comment.

Paul

 

by: nprignanoPosted on 2009-03-17 at 18:59:58ID: 23915035

Right - what I am driving at is that the method you are using (WSH) is going to return a different username if it is run on the client's local PC than if it is run on the Citrix server.  I do not think you are going to be able to achieve your goal using WSH unless you force the home users to access the Intranet as a published application that runs on the Citrix server.

 

by: trowerPosted on 2009-03-18 at 02:14:48ID: 23916644

Thanks for the comment.

I agree that the WSH method is not going to work I only included it for completeness and to give a better idea of what I was trying to achieve.

What I was looking for was maybe an equivalent method using a Citrix or some other property that I don't know about, which is why I needed a Citirx expert to help me :-)

Cheers
Paul

 

by: nprignanoPosted on 2009-03-18 at 08:23:22ID: 23919748

My suggestion would be to use the WSH method, but have your home users launch the Intranet as a published application instead of through their home browser.

 

by: trowerPosted on 2009-03-18 at 08:38:11ID: 23919909

Thanks for that but I don't understand it !!

I work on our Intranet and so am a Citrix imbecile - could you flesh out your answer a little so that I could pass it to our Networks department (which is the one that looks after the Citrix machine). Or is your answer already sufficient for a Citrix administrator to understand ?

Thanks
Paul

 

by: nprignanoPosted on 2009-03-18 at 12:26:27ID: 23922614

Your Citrix admin should understand, but specifically, they would need to create a published application that opens a published web browser which opens specifically to your Intranet - this can be done with command line arguments for a published instance of Internet Explorer, or using published content and publishing the URL to open on the server in the default browser.  Let me know if the Citrix admin has any questions for making that happen.

 

by: trowerPosted on 2009-03-19 at 01:41:41ID: 23927348

nprignano

thanks for all your help I will pass on the details to the Citrix guys.

Paul

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