Citrix Receiver For Mac Mojave

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Applicable Products

  • Receiver for Mac

Symptoms or Error

An issue has been reported that causes a disconnect when SSL is used and the Session Reliability feature is disabled. This issue is very specific to SSL connections with Session Reliability, if SSL is not being used the issue does not occur. Users can encounter an error which reads “the remote ssl peer sent bad mac alert”. See image below. Citrix is working on resolving the issue in a future version.

Solution

Update: This issue has been fixed in the latest version of Citrix Receiver for Mac.

Citrix Receiver Updates logging is enabled by default with Citrix Receiver for Mac Version 12.6 and 12.7. Citrix Receiver Updates logs can be found in the /Library/Logs/Citrix Receiver folder. The log files related to Citrix Receiver Updates are: Citrix Receiver UpdaterTimestamp.txt; ReceiverHelperTimestamp.txt. Citrix HDX RealTime Connector - Not Connected on Mac Mojave 10.14.1 (self.Citrix) submitted 1 day ago by talltatanka Hi all, recently switched from Receiver to WorkSpace 19.3.0.21 (1903) due to work requirements. Mac Mojave Citrix receiver downloads launch.jsp file not Ica file Asked. Microsoft flight simulator for mac. Citrix receiver apps fails to launch any ICA files for CentOS 7. On the drop down menu. Citrix Receiver disable launch on startup/login Asked by mschnait, August 25. Mac macos mojave. Citrix on MAC Show independant open applications in DOCK Asked by dan.lebaron, July. Citrix Viewer quit unexpectedly - Mojave 10.14.5 Asked by lukeperman, June 17. Since upgrading to Mojave (10.14), both Citrix Receiver and Workspace do not work. I read elsewhere that Receiver is not compatible with Mojave and hoped that Workspace 18.9 would function, but its just a spinning beach ball.

Fixed an issue where sessions would disconnect resulting in an error message indicating that 'The remote SSL peer sent a bad MAC Alert.' [LC4367]

For more information, refer to Citrix Documentation - Fixed issues in Citrix Receiver for Mac 12.

Workaround:

  • Enable Session Reliability
  • Uninstall Receiver for Mac 12.1 and re-install 12.0 (this version does not have the issue).
Refer to the download site for further information: 12.1 download page

Problem Cause

Error 45 (E_SSLSDK_ALERT_BAD_MAC)

Citrix Receiver Update For Mac Mojave

Additional Resources

Please visit Product Documentation for Receiver for Mac 12.x for more information.

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One of those things that tells you just how seriously Big Business IT, as a whole, takes the Mac. This is not as much a request for advice as a bellyache and thread to share experiences and updates.
For security reasons, my employer does not want us doing work locally on personal machines. So if I'm not using my work-issued laptop I must connect with work applications via Citrix application hosting. I typically spend several hours a day connected to our hosted applications, so how well they work is a big deal.
Citrix has been replacing its old Receiver client, across all platforms, with a new client called Workspace. Among many other changes, Workspace has a brand-new rendering engine. It uses Metal on Mojave, ostensibly to speed up performance. But since before the public release of Mojave there have been near-universal complaints about Workspace's performance on Mojave, confirmed by my personal experience. Hosted apps are often very slow and the client seems to have trouble transmitting some events to the server. This persisted through client versions 1808 and 1809. There is now a pre-release build of 1811 on the (mostly deserted) Citrix Mac support forum, with a claim that it solves the issues. But, at least in my usage, it is only a little bit better.
The solution is to revert to the previous product, Receiver 12.9.1. It occasionally acts odd around the edges, but performance is about as good as you could hope for applications hosted on a resource-starved VM across the internet. But Receiver is 32-bit only, so won't work with macOS 10.15, and also is not guaranteed to work with future versions of the Citrix application hosting platform.
Only Mac users get to live with/work around disabling performance problems in critical enterprise applications for months at a time, without any evident urgency by the vendor to fix them. Sigh.