Creating ICA Files with the Citrix ICA Client Editor
This article applys to the following Citrix/Virtual Desktop clients: 
About the Citrix Client for Mac OS X
The Citrix client for Mac OS X is installed locally on your Mac. If you would like a more integrated method of connecting to a smaller number of Virtual Desktop applications on a regular basis, you should use the Citrix client for Mac OS X. If you are using it for the first time, you should first read this article about how the client works.
ICA Files are created to define a Virtual Desktop application to which you would like to connect. You can define individual settings for each ICA files according to what is appropriate for that application.
How to create ICA files for use with the Mac OS X client
1. First you will need to install the Citrix Client for Mac OS X. For those instructions, click here.
2. Before you create ICA files, you will want to define your Default Settings that will apply to all Virtual Desktop sessions. You will find those instructions, here.
3. After you have installed the Citrix client for Mac OS X and set up your Default Settings, you will need to create ICA files that define what applications you would like to connect to using the Virtual Desktop service. This is done with the Citrix ICA Client Editor. Browse to the directory as shown and open the icon for the Citrix ICA Client Editor.
4. This is the initial window of the Citrix ICA Client Editor. To beging to create an ICA file, click on the radio button next to "Published Applications", the click the "Browse" button below it.
5. When you click the "Browse" button, a list of all applications that are available on Virtual Desktop will appear. Select the one you wish to connect to and click the "Select" button.
6. Next, you need to enter your HawkID credentials. For the "Domain" field, enter only "IOWA", for example, instead of the fully-qualified name of "iowa.uiowa.edu".
7. Your ICA file is ready to save to the desktop of your Mac. Since you have previously defined your default settings, the ICA file will use those settings. If desired, you may define settings in the Security, Connection Properties, Window and Applications tabs that you want to apply to just this ICA file. Click SAVE in the lower right corner of the Citrix ICA Client Editor and select the directory to which you would like the ICA file saved. To connect to your Virtual Desktop application, simple double-click the ICA file as through it were an alias to a program that is installed locally on your Mac.
More Information
For instructions on installing and using the Citrix client for Mac OS X, see the main Virtual Desktop Documentation page.
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Last Updated: 04/24/2008