Anonymous Citrix login issues

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Hi all

I'm experiencing some annoying issues due to the fact that we use anonymous logins on our Citrix servers when logging into JDE

They are as follows:

When logging in, under Active Era, a user always experiences the Tip of the Day. Even if they untick "Show Tips on Startup" it always returns next time they log in.

When logging in, a user always gets the Task Documentation panel. Even if they untick "View...Show...Task Documentation" it always returns next time they log in.

When a user logs in, the menus default the first task in the Task List, rather than the last task that they used in the previous login session

Any help would be appreciated.

Gerry
CNC Administrator
B7333 SP17_1
AIX4.3
Oracle817
MFXP

Gerry,

Your getting this because of the anonymous login. Each time you login, a new copy of the ini is created in the Anon users home folder. Each time you log out, it is deleted.

If someone knows what settings would affect these aspects of the OneWorld environment, perhaps we could set it up as a default.

Anybody?

Regards,
Doug

Gerry,

Along with this issue, we would like to use the anonymous login, but are having trouble resolving access to network resources.

How do you handle access to Helps and Media Objects or local user file/print servers with an anonymous profile? I learned a way to hardcode a NET mapping for helps and Media Objects, but the local file/print servers would be cumbersome to do this with.

Regards,
Doug

A couple of solutions to the problems you list are:
1. Modify the JDE.INI file in C:\WINNT on the terminal server to disable the "Tip of the Day." When anon users log in, the modified JDE.INI would then be copied.
2. Create an anonomous domain user account and grant it rights to the network resources on your network that you are concerned about.
3. Create a logon script on the local machine that executes a NET USE command for each share passing this Anonymous domain user's name and password. Assign this logon script to your ANON000, etc users on the local Terminal Server machine.

You can create the Anonymous user profiles as local users on the server that holds the media objects/help files.
Citrix by default generates random passwords for anon users making it impossible to sync them up.

There is a fix for this. You can set the password to a static one by adding it to the registry.

Run Regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Add a value:

Value: AnonPassword
Type: REG_SZ
String: yourpassword

Make string equal to whatever password you will set all local Anon accounts to (on Citrix and the server you are trying to get MO/Help from).

For more info on Anonymous accounts search
http://knowledgebase.citrix.com for document CTX153078

-Matt

Thanks for the posts peoples and apologies for taking so long to review them. I have found a way to get rid of the tips at startup (and change other default settings as well). It's in the registry, but the setting lives in ntuser.dat which gets loaded via the default user profile everytime an anonymous user logs in. Obviously this way of settings defaults is only good if the changes needed to be made are global. The line for the registry setting to change is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\hivenamet\Software\JDEdwards\OneWorld\Solution Explorer\Settings.USERNAME and the dword to change is ShowTipOfDay from 1 to 0, where hivename is temporary name you've given the hive once loaded via regedt32 and USERNAME is obviously the name of the user in question. I've created a script which can be run from a web page where it takes a pre-prepared export of the registry, custom made to whatever starting default you want and adjusts that file to whatever username you like, either from a file of name (so you can create default settings for multiple people), or for a single user. The script then creates a .reg file ready to be imported into the registry. If you want any more information about this or a copy of the script feel free to email me on [email protected].

Has anyone come up with a better solution for loading default settings from the registry?