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Launch Public appl via WebInterface vs Custom ICA connection

Colleagues,

I am trying to access some public applications via a custom ICA connection. I am getting the following error.

"Cannot connect to the Citrix Presentation Server.
The Citrix Presentation Server you have selected is not accepting connections."

But I can access all my published application just fine via the Web Interface, just not via custom ica settings.

Can anyone point me into the right direction here?

Thanks

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Try the following:

Check your firewall configuration - are you using alternate addressing - as Web Interface will apply the correct IP info to the ICA file whereas using PN you are required to enter the correct information.

Run RDP client (go to Start->Run->mstsc), if RDP client fails, you should check your Microsoft Terminal Services Licensing server and the number/availbility of TSCAL licenses.
Also it is worth asking the following questions:

Has it ever worked?
If yes then what has changed?
Does it work on any other PCs or for any other users?
If so what is different?
Are you using a personal firewall on your pc which is blocking the ICA client or ports?
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Thegordo,

It has actually never worked, I have never tried it. No I am trying to setup some thin clients and because of that I experienced that problem for the first time.
It only works on the LAN but for no one and from nowhere WAN sided.

Can you please give me some more details to your first reply: "Check your firewall configuration - are you using alternate addressing - as Web Interface will apply the correct IP info to the ICA file whereas using PN you are required to enter the correct information."

What do you refer to when you say "enter the correct IP" ?

Are there additional ports to open for using PN (besides 1494 and 80)?
So the custom connection works from the LAN?

But not from the WAN?

Do you use the Web Interface from the LAN only or via the WAN as well?
Which one does it work for?

You will need to work out how connections are made via the WAN...

Are you traversing a NAT Firewall?
Are you using a VPN to connect in?

Please confirm which methods are connecting successfully for which environments using which components.....
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I found what is going on but don't know how to fix it.
I can browse the public applications via PNA but when I lunch any, the citrix server hands back the LAN IP and not the public IP, therefore the Launch fails. How can I fix that?

I am traversing a NAT firewall.

The WebInterface work from  the LAN and WAN side.
Did you setup the Web Interface and configure it for alternate addressing? This would assist the NAT FW traversal.

Unfortunately this is why you would use web interface - because it publishes the public address to you which is then translated at the NAT FW to the appropriate server...

I am not sure you could achieve the same using PN Agent - did you deploy PN Agent using web interface? I cannot remember if you can configure the agent for alternate addressing....
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I did setup the web interface for alternate addressing.

So if I do understand your correctly, in order for the PNagent to work, I have to be on the local LAN first? e.g VPN ... ?

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You have solved my problem !!!
I used the export configuration option to export the WebInterface.conf file and imported it via the import function for the PNA site.
Restarted the IIS and vola.
Now there is just some finetuning left.

I can't thank you enough.

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No problem - glad I could help!