Latest revision as of 12:52, 11 May 2017

Introduction

Citrix Receiver is a lightweight software client that allows access to virtual desktops and apps including Windows, Web or SaaS apps on any PC, Mac, netbook, tablet or smartphone.

For further information on using Receiver see Citrix Receiver

Prerequisites

Citrix receiver Client

Swivel Appliance or Server

Citrix Netscaler

Netscaler 10.x Configuration for Receiver

To allow Primary and Secondary Authentication using Citrix receiver clients the following policies are required. On the Netscaler Access Gateway select Netscaler Gateway then Virtual Servers, click on the required server then Open. Click on the Authentication tab, and create a policy for RADIUS authentication and a Policy for LDAP authentication for the Primary and Secondary authentication. The below assumes that the Primary authentication server is LDAP and the secondary authentication server is RADIUS for methods other than Receiver authentication.

To create the Policy, click on Insert Policy, then from the drop down Tab below Policy name, click on Insert Policy and enter the following:

Name Name of the Policy

Authentication Type Usually LDAP and the RADIUS authentication servers

Server The authentication server for the above

Under Expression click on Add and select the following:

Expression Type General

Flow Type REQ

Protocol HTTP

Qualifier Header

Operator CONTAINS or NOTCONTAINS

Value Receiver

Header Name

Click on OK then create. Double click on the Priority to set the priority to 90 or 100 as appropriate.

Create policies for each as below.

Multiple Authentication servers can be created by multiple entries of the same priority, such as AD servers.

Citrix Access Standard Edition Gateway RADIUS authentication

The following article describes adding RADIUS authentication to the Citrix Access Standard Edition for Citrix Receiver. The RADIUS authentication needs to be set as the primary authentication and AD as the Secondary authentication.

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX121093

Citrix Access Advanced Edition Gateway RADIUS authentication

The following article describes adding RADIUS authentication to the Citrix Access Advanced Edition for Citrix Receiver.

http://cdn.ws.citrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/iphone-receiver-admin.pdf

Known Issues and Limitations

It has been observed by our customers that the Citrix Receiver only launches successfully on the Android platform when accessing links via the Mozilla Firefox browser (at the time this article was written)