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CTX246795 - How to Create an Unattended Installation of the ICA Win32 Program Neighborhood Client versions 4.21.779 to 6.21.986

This document was published at: http://support.citrix.com/kb/entry.jspa?externalID=CTX246795

Document ID: CTX246795, Created on: Sep 8, 2000, Updated: Sep 8, 2003

Products: ICA Win32 Web Client, ICA Win32 Program Neighborhood Client

This technote explains the current method of performing an unattended install with the Program Neighborhood 32-bit ICA Client.

NOTE: The procedure in this article does not apply to client 6.30.1050 and above because the silent installation method for these versions is now effected through the use of the Windows Installer Service and the MSI distribution of the ICA Client for Win32. Please see the Administrator's Guide for Citrix ICA Win32 Client, http://www.citrix.com/download/bin/license.asp?client=w32 ,for more information.

This procedure requires a system that does not have any version of the Citrix ICA Client installed on it. This fresh system is used to create the Setup.iss file necessary for the silent installation to function properly. The client version being updated must be Program Neighborhood build .715 to .779. The WinFrame 1.8 and the MetaFrame 1.0 Remote Application Manager Clients do not work with this procedure.

WARNING: The License Agreement is always accepted without prompting the user.

Extracting the Installation Files

Build 779 of the client is on the MetaFrame 1.8 for Windows 2000 CD and the directories are already extracted.

However, the build 6.0.910 client and higher use a self-installing executable and the files must be extracted manually. Follow the procedure below to extract the files:

1. Download the latest clients from the Citrix Web site at http://www.citrix.com/download.

2. Open the self-extracting .exe file using Winzip 7.0 or higher.

3. Extract the clients into a temp directory.

4. The directory will contain subdirectories labeled Disk1, Disk2, and Disk3.

Creating the Setup.iss File

1. Copy the sample Setup.iss file below to Disk1 of the Program Neighborhood Client build .779 setup disks.

Download setup.iss

OR

Using client build .910 or later, type setup -r at a command prompt within the Disk 1 directory extracted in Step 4 above. This begins the installation process on the workstation.

2. Answer all installation questions as required by your installation needs.

3. During installation, a Setup.iss file is created in the %systemroot% directory of the workstation. This file contains the answers required for the silent install.

4. Copy Setup.iss to Disk 1 of the installation disk set or to the Disk 1 folder of the network share point.

Editing the Setup.iss File

Using Notepad, make any necessary changes to the Setup.iss file. For instance, you may want to make changes to the following options:

szDir=C:Program FilesCitrixICA Client
szEdit1="ICAClient"

where szDir specifies the directory where the client will be installed and szEdit1 specifies the client name. Modify this value to ensure that each client has a unique name.

This allows the installation to use each client device's NetBIOS name as a unique ICA Client name.

NOTE: You can use the Icasetup.bat file below to specify the clientname dynamically. This file was created based on the .779 build. You can easily make the appropriate changes to work with the Setup.iss files created by the .910 or later client builds. The order of the entries in your Setup.iss file may be different based on the client version and options installed.

When Icasetup.bat is executed, it automatically creates the Setup.iss file and launches the ICA client's Setup.exe as long as Setup.exe exists in the same folder as Icasetup.bat. This works perfectly on Windows NT servers but, since Windows 95/98, does not support the %COMPUTERNAME% and %SYSTEMDRIVE% environment variables. As the administrator, you have to do one of two things:

Add a COMPUTERNAME and SYSTEMDRIVE environment variable to each Windows 95/98 server before executing Icasetup.exe

-OR-

Edit the Icasetup.bat file and replace %COMPUTERNAME% and %SYSTEMDRIVE% with hardcoded strings specific to each Windows 95/98 workstation.

NOTE: For information about how to set the Computername and Systemdrive variables on Windows 95/98/ME workstations, see Microsoft article: %UserName% Variable Is Not Supported in Windows 95/98/Me.

Installing the Client

Execute Setup -S from the Disk 1 directory. The -S parameter designates "silent mode" for Install Shield.

OR

Execute Icasetup.bat from the Disk 1 directory. Download icasetup.bat

The installation begins without prompting you for any information. Installation is complete when the Program Neighborhood icons appear on the desktop.