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Sun Microsystems Smart Cards manual

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    Sun Microsystems, Inc. 4150 Network Circle Santa Clara, CA 95054 U .S.A. 650-960-1300 Sun Ra y ™ , Smar t Cards , and Citr ix Enab ling Sun Ra y Smar t Card P ass-through to Citr ix May 2004, V ersion 1.0[...]

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    Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Cir cle, Santa Clara, California 95054, U.S.A. All rights reserved. Sun Microsystems, Inc. has intellectual pr operty rights relating to technology embodied in the product that is described in thi s document. In particular , and without limitation, these intellectual property rights may include on[...]

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    iii Contents Overview 1 Software Requirements 2 Solaris Operating Environment 2 Sun Ray Server Software and Patches 2 Sun Ray PC/SC Bypass 3 Citrix Client 3 Microsoft/Citrix Server Components 3 Hardware Requirements 3 Sun Ray Requirements 4 Smart Card Requir ements 4 Installation Notes 5 Configuring and Testing Citrix Smart Card Support 6 T o Insta[...]

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    iv Book Title • Month 2004[...]

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    1 Enabling Sun Ray ™ Smart Car d Pass-thr ough to Citrix This document is designed to help users configur e 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 r equired to establish this channel as well as how to install, configur e, and test the feature. Note [...]

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    2 Sun Ray, Smart Cards, and Citrix • May 2004 The end result is that a Sun Ray user can perform certain tasks in a W indows environment, including: ■ PIN-based logins ■ Digital signing, encrypting, and decrypting of email messages from W indows- based email clients such as Microsoft Outlook. Note – The configuration of Citrix and W indows s[...]

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    Enabling Sun Ra y™ Smar t Card P ass-through to Citrix 3 Sun Ray PC/SC Bypass ■ Sun library to provide dir ect access to the Sun Ray smart card reader via the PC/SC API bypassing both the Open Card Framework (OCF) and the Solaris Card Framework (SCF). ■ Package name is SUNWsrcbp. Use version 1.0_07 or later . ■ A vailable fr om the Sun down[...]

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    4 Sun Ray, Smart Cards, and Citrix • May 2004 Sun Ray Requir ements Configuring your Sun Ray Server to allow smart card support for Citrix sessions requir es the following steps: 1. Ensure that you ar e running a current version of Solaris that supports Sun Ray Server Software 2.0. 2. Apply the latest Solaris Cluster Patch. 3. Apply the latest Su[...]

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    Enabling Sun Ra y™ Smar t Card P ass-through to Citrix 5 Note – If you connect to a W indows Server and receive the following message: The card supplied requir es drivers that are not on the system. Please try another card. then you do not have a supported smart card for W indows and need middleware to support your smart card in a W indows envi[...]

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    6 Sun Ray, Smart Cards, and Citrix • May 2004 Conf iguring and T esting Citrix Smart Car d Support This document assumes that you know how to install and create connections using the Citrix ICA Client. For information on installing and configuring the Citrix Client for UNIX please read the Administrators Guide available at: http://download2.citri[...]

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    Enabling Sun Ra y™ Smar t Card P ass-through to Citrix 7 The Citrix ICA Client for Solaris window appears. FIGURE 1 Citrix ICA Client for Solaris W indow 6. Highlight the Connection you wish to test Smart Card support for , and click the properties button.[...]

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    8 Sun Ray, Smart Cards, and Citrix • May 2004 The Connection Properties Scr een appears. FIGURE 2 Connection Properties Scr een a. Select the drop down box labeled Network and select Login. This presents the pr operties screen for Logon attributes. b. For testing purposes, check the box labeled Allow Smart Card Logon. c. Click OK. d. Launch your [...]

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    Enabling Sun Ra y™ Smar t Card P ass-through to Citrix 9 When the W indows Desktop or Published Application appears, you should be prompted for a PIN-based Login . FIGURE 3 W indows Desktop with Pr ompt for PIN-based Login Note – If you connect to a W indows Server and receive the following message: The card supplied requir es drivers that are [...]

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    10 Sun Ray, Smart Cards, and Citrix • May 2004 Note – Unless your W indows environment is conf igured to perform PIN-based logins (either via a Microsoft Certificate Server infrastructure or via middlewar e) you should disable the Allow Smart Card Logon option for your Citrix Connection. It is important to note that this does NOT disable the sm[...]