Re: [SLUG] Linux client for Citrix Access Gateway?

[Sam Lawrance <boris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/06/2008, at 4:09 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > We're trying to deploy a Linux server into an all-Windows company.  
> > Our
> > client is actually quite happy with this solution, but we were
> > informed a couple of days ago that they have a Citrix Access Gateway
> > VPN server that we must go through in order to interact with their
> > network.
> >
> > I can't seem to find any clear information on how to connect to the
> > VPN with our Linux server. The client Citrix refers to appears to be
> > for remote desktop use through a Web browser, and is hence useless  
> > for
> > a server.
>
> Sadly, I think you are out of luck.  My understanding is that the  
> Citrix
> Access Gateway "VPN" server is actually a browser hosted RDP-over-SSL
> solution.
>
> Since there isn't, as far as I know, any functional RDP server for  
> Linux
> available you are not going to have an easy path to getting this
> working, as I understand things.

There is xrdp.sourceforge.net (a friend told me about it - I have not  
tried it).  Alternatively there are commercial packages available.

I'm not sure this helps if the server is on the evil side of the  
network and needs to VPN in.