NAV 2013 R2 RTC running over Citrix and how to access the local pc C: drive

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We are running rollup 8 of NAV 2013 R2. We need to be able to read files on the user’s local C: drive, from NAV code, when the RTC is running on a Citrix server.

All functions that run on the NAV Service Tier, seem to regard the ‘client’ PC as the one that RTC is running on. I.e. the Citrix Server. So how do I access flat files on the user’s PC?

When you run a standard NAV report (written with Visual Studio), and ask to print it into an Excel file, the options to specify the save file name included 2 folders, one for the C: drive on the Citrix server, and one for the C: drive on the user’s PC. So NAV or Visual Studio must know how to access the User’s PC, but how do I do it?

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when using citrix, then the citrix user session is “the client pc”.

that’s more a citrix question than a nav question. if possible, make a shared path/folder in the citrix user session, which points to the “real” user pc.