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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®.