Sun Microsystems Smart Cards manual Overview, Enabling Sun Ray Smart Card Pass-through to Citrix

Enabling Sun Ray™ Smart Card Pass-through to Citrix

This document is designed to help users configure the Sun Ray environment so that the smart card channel is available from the Citrix Server to the Sun Ray desktop. It covers the software required to establish this channel as well as how to install, configure, and test the feature.

Note – The information in this document supersedes the requirement for the PC/SC Lite package as listed in the Citrix Administrators Guide for UNIX ICA Clients in so far as it applies to Sun Ray configuration.

NB: This is not applicable to other Sun workstations.

Overview

The primary (or out-of-the-box) function of smart cards in a Sun Ray environment is to provide session mobility via the hot desking feature of the Sun Ray Server and its clients, or desktop units (DTU). However, some smart cards, when combined with middleware, also enable the ability to provide strong, two-factor authentication for access control and the ability to digitally sign, encrypt, and decrypt files, email, etc.

It is also possible to use Citrix MetaFrame™ XP to extend this functionality from the Sun Ray environment to a Windows environment. Citrix MetaFrame XP added smart card support in Feature Release 2 and enabled this support on the client side starting with the 6.30 version of ICA® Client for Solaris™/SPARC®.

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