Archive for October, 2008

Using the Citrix web client with Fedora

Cuesta College, one of the places I (Greg Porter) teach, only allows you to access your cuesta.edu email 2 ways.  You can use their web based Outlook Web Access, which looks really lame and clunky if you’re not using Internet Explorer.  (I use Firefox on Fedora.)  The other way you can access your mail is by using Cuesta’s Citrix Presentation Server which uses the Citrix ICA Client plugin for your browser to get access to remote apps at Cuesta like Outlook or Office.  (No other access methods are allowed, no POP, no IMAP, my mail is “stuck” on campus.  I could launch into a rant about how silly that is, but I’ll do that another day.)

There’s a couple-three flaming hoops you have to jump through to get Firefox to use the ICA client… Read more