Applicable Products
- XenDesktop
- XenApp
- Receiver for Mac
May 02, 2018 Important update about Citrix Receiver Beginning August 2018, Citrix Receiver will be replaced by Citrix Workspace app. While you can still download older versions of Citrix Receiver, new features and enhancements will be released for Citrix Workspace app. Apple’s release of OS X 10.10.2 coupled with Receiver for Mac 11.9.15 resolves some issues and is the recommended configuration for any customer wanting to use Smart Card and OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). Citrix continues to investigate other smart card related issues. Since recently I have an Imac with OS X El capitan 10.11 installed. Loggin into my worknetwork using citrix is not working. Citrix does not launch for Mac OS X El.
Information
Apple released OS X 10.10 on October 16, 2014. Changes in OS X 10.10 prevent the smart card redirection feature of Receiver from working correctly in most cases. Attempts to access a smart card in a XenApp or XenDesktop session will often result in errors similar to “No Valid Certificates Found”. It’s also possible that a XenApp or XenDesktop session will hang attempting to access the smart card. Removing the smart card or disconnecting the reader should stop the hang and allow Receiver to continue.
Apple’s release of OS X 10.10.2 coupled with Receiver for Mac 11.9.15 resolves some issues and is the recommended configuration for any customer wanting to use Smart Card and OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). Citrix continues to investigate other smart card related issues.
Apple’s release of OS X 10.10.2 coupled with Receiver for Mac 11.9.15 resolves some issues and is the recommended configuration for any customer wanting to use Smart Card and OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). Citrix continues to investigate other smart card related issues.
Recommendation
At this time, Citrix recommends that customers who require the use of smart card redirection and want to use OS X 10.10 upgrade to OS X 10.10.2 and Receiver for Mac 11.9.15.
Citrix Receiver allows for Citrix connections to be made from lots of different types of devices, including devices running Microsoft Windows OS, Android OS, Apple iOS and the various Linux OS families. Today I will be taking a quick look at installing Citrix Receiver on Mac OS X (10.13, aka High Sierra).
I could not find Citrix Receiver on the Apple App Store on my Mac, so I had to install it via a download from Citrix.
First load up your preferred web browser (I’ve tested with both Apple Safari and Google Chrome) and browse to https://www.citrix.co.uk/downloads/citrix-receiver/mac/
The current (as of May 9th 2018) download is Receiver version 12.9.1 and the download is dmg (disk mountable image) file that comes in at just under 50MB. Once downloaded and opened the dmg file should put a disk icon on your Mac desktop.
This contains a .pkg (package) file and a .app (application) file. The “Install Citrix Receiver” file does exactly as you would expect; it installs Citrix. Double click it to begin the installation. The “Uninstall Citrix Receiver” application uninstalls (removes) Citrix Receiver.
The installer warns that you are running an installation package; proceed only if you are the owner/admin of the device and want Citrix Receiver.
Citrix For Mac Os Catalina
Once the installer has finished it will ask if you wish to keep the disk image and package or if you want to move it to the trash.
Personally I am a fan of keeping the original (source) installation files in case of issues later on (i.e. if I need to uninstall or reinstall a particular version of an application).
To “eject” (i.e. close) the disk image, right click it and choose Eject “Citrix Receiver”.
Now go back to your preferred web browser (again, I tested Apple Safari and Google Chrome) and navigate to your organisations Citrix portal web address.
Google Chrome gave me a warning about opening Citrix Receiver for the first time and asking if I wanted to associate a file (Citrix Receiver uses .ica files) with Citrix Receiver.
Citrix Workspace For Mac Os X 10.10.5
Again, only proceed with setting file associations, opening new applications or trusting a website to run a plug in if you are the owner/admin of the computer and trust the site!
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Clicking “Open” and “Open Citrix Receiver Launcher” opened Citrix Receiver.
Apple Safari asked if I wanted to trust my organisation’s website to use the Citrix Receiver plug in.
Clicking “Trust” opened Citrix Receiver.
When Citrix Receiver has been installed on Mac OS X it places a Citrix Receiver icon in the system bar at the top of the screen:
This icon allows the user access to Receiver (if you want to access directly to a Citrix store front rather than via a web browser), Preferences (controlling what Citrix can access locally when in a Citrix session, clear the Citrix Receiver cache), the option to check for updates and an option to Quit (close) Receiver.
Citrix For Mac Os X 10.9.5
EDIT (OCT 2018): Receiver is now Workspace app; see https://geektechstuff.com/2018/10/11/citrix-receiver-becomes-citrix-workspace-app-october-2018/