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ShaunDarkLord
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Novell Client - RDP does Single Sign On - PCOIP prompts for login details......

Hi all

Now that I've got PCoIP working, I've discovered a minor issue. I'm running the Novell Client on my machines, and this works fine with RDP - I log into the View client, hit connect and am logged straight in to both AD and edirectory.

However, if I switch to PCoIP, the Novell login window appears. It's a minor annoyance, but I hope someone knows of a workaround.

Thanks

Shaun

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grossag
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I've been meaning to blog about this, but the solution is to put the Novell client into "passive mode" as shown here: http://www.novell.com/documentation/noclienu/noclienu/?page=/documentation/noclienu/noclienu/data/b7... . It looks like this is available starting in Novell Client 4.91 SP5. This causes the GINA to behave like the MSGINA so we can work correctly with it. I haven't tested this out myself, but SE's have reported success with this.

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grossag
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I've been meaning to blog about this, but the solution is to put the Novell client into "passive mode" as shown here: http://www.novell.com/documentation/noclienu/noclienu/?page=/documentation/noclienu/noclienu/data/b7... . It looks like this is available starting in Novell Client 4.91 SP5. This causes the GINA to behave like the MSGINA so we can work correctly with it. I haven't tested this out myself, but SE's have reported success with this.

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ShaunDarkLord
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That did the trick Smiley Happy

Thankyou!

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ShaunDarkLord
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Not sure if it was the 4.5 agent, or something else, but now that PCoIP is working fine with the passive NW client, RDP is not - It's prompting for a Novell login, and then not running the login script.........

Think I might have to build some connection specific workstations and limit them to only one connection type.........

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eswing
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Anyone know if their is a configuration for the Novell client that will allow Single Sign-On with either a PCoIP or a RDP connection? Seems to be one or the another for some reason.

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ShaunDarkLord
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I'm having to run two pools - one for PCoIP and one for RDP. It's a pain, but because you can restrict access to certain pools from certain connection servers, it has meant the my users have stopped trying to connect via PCoIP from home..........

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thorwitt
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Same problem here, anyone got a solution for SSO with Novell Client and RDP + PCOIP?

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grossag
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Have you complained to Novell about it? The issue is that when you switch their component into Passive Mode it doesn't work correctly in this way.

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jgruenke
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This did work correctly in past versions of View, until 4.5 came out. It seems with the agent install they don't give you the option to not install the 'view secure authentication' piece.

If you install the old 4.0.2 version of the View agent, and do not install the view secure authentication piece of the agent, that hopefully should start working for you again. Not really a great solution, but could be better than running two pools.

If anyone does find a solution to this using the 4.5 agent, I would be glad to know how they did it!

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grossag
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Our PCoIP session management code requires the presence of our GINA; if not, you may run into delays of up to 60 seconds when disconnecting/reconnecting. Our GINA works around a bug in Microsoft's GINA.

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thorwitt
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Any news to this, it would be great if we can do a single sign on with RDP and PCOIP with the Novell Client.

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ShaunDarkLord
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I'm testing now with View 4.6 and ZENworks 11

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ShaunDarkLord
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Still the same - Two pools with different connection types required.................

BUT - Now in RDP, the Novell login appears too late, so ZENworks 11 reboots the client in order to apply the GP!

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