Citrix and the Web

[Dawn Kovacs]

We have a Citrix WinFrame server set up for dial access to our 
databases and we just started offering Web access.   We only have 3 
CD-ROM databases that we're allowed to offer remotely (the others 
are online) and they're our most popular databases.  

Our patrons are using the Citrix WinFrame plugin to get to the 
CD-ROMs from the Web and it works fine.  Once they download the 
plugin it automatically installs itself in Netscape.  There are a 
few extra steps involved in using it with Internet Explorer.

Dawn Kovacs
Wheaton Public Library
Wheaton, Illinois


> However, if you want people to be able to access the CD-rom's over the
> internet, the problem is much more involved. We've used Citrix
> (http://www.citrix.com) Winframe in the past to do this (not via the Net,
> but via dialup). Supposedly they're working on a Net-based version,
> requiring users to install a special browser plug-in. This is also
> something we're considering installing, as we still have our Citrix server
> and CD Towers (in disuse since we switched to web-based databases last
> summer).
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