EA - ActiveX and firewalls?

[jho]

Hi!
We're still trying to find out why we can't run EA properly on at thin client using Citrix and through a firewall. We suspect that  EA uses ActiveX components the firewall shuts out? Could this be the cause to our problems?
???jho

[AdamHearn]

Citrix is a remote access program which will (in the very basic of senses) send mouse and keyboard actions to a remote desktop. EA is therefore not running across the firewall, it is running on the remote machine and so whatever technologies, ports, etc. should be of no consequence. It is possible that EA doesn't run on your server in a Citrix session (there are a few programs that fail when running under a Terminal Services Server (similar technology).

The Corporate Edition of EA allows for a SQL repository which gives you client server access. It is quite a bit slower than a local .EAP file but it is fully client server and doesn't take much to setup.

I run a VPN to my work's LAN then OLEDB to the MSDE based repository. It's a solution that works for me

Edit: ...and double treble posting isn't going to get you an answer any faster. I just noticed Sparx's response just a few threads further down