Setting up drive mappings
You can configure the ICA Client so that you can access any directory mounted on your UNIX workstation, including CD-ROMs, from the Citrix server session as PC drive letters.
After changing drive mapping settings you need to log off and reconnect to the Citrix server for the changes to take effect; simply disconnecting is not sufficient.
To display the drive mappings
To enable access to a specific drive
To change the access to a drive
To enable drive mapping
The same drive mapping and access settings will apply to all connection files.
To use mapped drives
Depending on the setup of the server, your mapped drives may or may not be immediately available. They may also be mapped to different server drive letters than those you specified in the Drive Mapping panel, because the drives you specified have already been assigned by the server.
To find out the current status of your mapped drives, once connected to the Citrix server, open the File Manager and click the drive letter pull-down menu in the top left of the File Manager window.
This displays which local or client drives are mapped to which server drives.
Client drives are shown in the format \\Client\drive where drive is the drive letter specified in the Drive Mapping panel.
If a drive you specified in theDrive Mapping panel is not shown in this list you can connect it to a server driver letter as follows:
Filenaming conventions
As UNIX is a case sensitive filesystem and Windows NT is case insensitive, problems may occur if you use UNIX files within the ICA client session whose names are identical except for their case. For example, ReadMe and README.
In such circumstances, although Windows NT displays the names correctly in a file listing, when a file is referred to, for example as a link in an HTML file, the first file found is used.
It is therefore recommended that any files you intend to use within the ICA client session have unique names.
Using floppy disks
If you are running the ICA Client on SGI IRIX you can access DOS floppies mounted automatically by mediad in the same way as any other drive.
Files on the floppy disk with long file names are accessible only by their short file names.
If you are running the ICA Client on Sun Solaris 2.5.1 you can access DOS floppies mounted on your UNIX workstation, either automatically using vold, or by using the volcheck utility. For details on using vold or volcheck, see your workstation documentation.
If you are running the ICA Client on SunOS 4.1.4 two scripts are provided to allow you to mount DOS floppies on your UNIX workstation so they can be accessed from the client. The scripts are located in the client installation directory and are called:
mntfloppy - used to mount floppy disks
umntfloppy - used to umount floppy disks
These scripts are owned by root, but can be run by any user. They use a floppy disk device name of /dev/fd0 and mount the floppy disk to /pcfs. To change these settings log on as root and edit the script file.
Note that when saving files on the floppy disk it is recommended that you use the DOS 8.3 filenaming convention, as long filenames are not supported.
If you are running the ICA Client on IBM AIX you can use the dosread, doswrite, dosdir,dosformat, and dosdel utilities. See your workstation documentation for details.
If you are running the ICA Client on Hewlett-Packard HP-UX you can use the doscp, dosls, dosdf,dosmkdir, dosrm, doschmod, dos2ux, and ux2dos utilities. See your workstation documentation for details.
If you are running the ICA Client on Linux the superuser can allow ordinary users to mount and unmount floppies by adding an entry such as the following to the /etc/fstab file:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy msdos defaults,noauto,user 0
or
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat defaults,noauto,user 0
or by modifying an existing entry in the /etc/fstab file so that the 'user' option is included. See yourworkstation documentation for details.
You can then access floppies by mounting the floppy using the command 'mount /mnt/floppy' and selecting the /mnt/floppy directory in the Drive Mapping panel.
If you are running the ICA Client on SCO UnixWare or OpenServer the superuser can mount floppies on the UNIX filesystem using the following command:
mount -F dosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy
You can then access foppies by selecting the /floppy directory in the Drive Mapping panel.
SCO UnixWare and OpenServer also provide the doscat, doscp, dosdir, dosformat,dosls, dosmkdir, dosrm and dosrmdir utilities which can by used by ordinary users. See your workstation documentation for details.
Free disk space on mapped drives
Note that when viewing the amount of free disk space available on a mapped drive, for example using the DIRcommand, the amount displayed is the total amount of free space available on the file system which contains the mapped UNIX directory.
If another file system has been mounted below the mapped UNIX directory, the free disk space shown may not relate to the listed directory.
To map a Citrix server drive to a directory on your UNIX workstation
If the drive you have mapped is not available on the Citrix server, the directory you have specified is mapped to another free drive letter.
The meaning of the icons areas follows:
Icon
Meaning
Read access
Prompt for read access on first access per session
No read access
Write access
Prompt for write access on first access per session
No write access
This enables drive mapping for all your connection definitions.