Mapping drives in Citrix Receiver for Ubuntu

Posted by nvcleemp on October 24, 2010 · 5 Comments 

This morning I had a file that needed to be opened using Microsoft Office. I didn’t feel like restarting my laptop to boot run Windows. So this was the moment to finally use Citrix which I had already installed. I went to the university website and Microsoft Word started without any problem. I wanted to open the file, but realized there weren’t any local drives mapped in Citrix. An easy solution would have been to put the file online somewhere, open a browser through Citrix and save the file to my network drive. However, I tend to be a bit more ambitious on sunday mornings, so I set about fixing it properly.

I’m running Ubuntu 10.4, and I have version 11.100 of Citrix Receiver installed.

My first problem was actually that I couldn’t find the configuration tool for Citrix. A quick search showed that the correct command was/usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr. But when I tried to run this from a terminal, I got the following result.

$ /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr &
$ /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.4:
  cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Apparently not all needed libraries to run wfcmgr are installed. Indeed if I run ldd on wfcmgr I get

$ ldd /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr
 linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00bc8000)
 libXm.so.4 => not found
 libXp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXp.so.6 (0x001b6000)
 libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x00b8e000)
 libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x00594000)
 libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x002b8000)
 libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x00b74000)
 libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x00941000)
 libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0x004b2000)
 libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0x00be3000)
 libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0x002d1000)
 libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x001c1000)
 libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00688000)
 libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00ae6000)
 libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00110000)
 libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00114000)
 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0066b000)
 libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00859000)
 libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x0028e000)

To solve this, just make sure that Motif is installed. If needed run

$ sudo aptitude install libmotif3

and create a symbolic link to it

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libXm.so.3.0.2 /usr/lib/libXm.so.4

Once this is done, wfcmgr should run without any problem. Go to the menu Tool and choose Settings. Click Preferences and select Drive Mapping. You can now choose the drive letter you want, click the button to the right of it and fill in the folder that should correspond with that drive.

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