Scenario: To ensure security, users who connect to the network from a remote location must be unable to map their client drives and printers. A Citrix Administrator creates a policy that blocks…

A user filter targets specific Active Directory users or groups regardless of connection method, and would not distinguish between a remote NetScaler session and a local LAN session for the same user.

An access control filter in a Citrix policy uses the connection's Access Gateway farm name and filter conditions to scope the policy to sessions established through NetScaler/Access Gateway. This ensures that only remote connections routed through NetScaler trigger the restriction on client drives and printers, while LAN users remain unaffected. This is the precise mechanism for differentiating policy application by connection path.

The Receiver version is unrelated to policy filtering logic - updating Receiver does not change how Citrix policies are evaluated or applied based on connection type.

Setting a higher policy priority determines which policy takes precedence when multiple conflicting policies exist, but it does not define the conditions under which the policy applies to remote versus local connections.