[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX in Fedora 7 refuses to work

[Alastair Johnson]

The Fedora setup procedure is described in detail here:
	http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/
For FC7 follow the FC5 instructions. You shouldn't need to touch nxsetup as 
the RPM does it for you.

I suggest you completely uninstall freenx and nx before following the above. 
Since you've done so much it _might_ take a bit of manual cleanup before the 
reinstall. If it doesn't work out of the box with the instructions above then 
see the FAQ for instructions on turning on logging:
	http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=FreeNX_FAQ/Problem_Solving
Post the logs and we can probably work out what's going on.

On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Ronald wrote:
> hi everyone,
>
> I'm posting to this list as a last resort of getting freenx to work:
>
> I tried the distroforums first, but it seems that they don't know either:
>
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=871332
>
> Anyway, since this is my last resort, I will try to be as clear as
> possible of my last actions:
>
> I installed the freenx by downloading the Fedora Core 7 packages:
>
> yum install freenx nx
>
> And I installed the closed source viewer from the nomachine site:
>
> rpm -i http://64.34.161.181/download/3.0.0/Linux/nxclient-3.0.0-78.i386.rpm
>
> Then I tried a few times (quite a lot actually without any result) to
> get the server going. This is what I tried now:
>
> Remote data from previous attempts:
> /usr/share/doc/free*/nxsetup --uninstall --purge
> rm -rf /home/Ronald/.ssh /root/.ssh /home/Ronald/.nx /root/.nx
> service sshd stop
>
> Retry:
> /usr/share/doc/free*/nxsetup --install
>                    # Create my own keys
> service sshd stop
> cd /etc/ssh/
>                             # It seems that SSH only picks up keys at
> this place (weird?)
> rm -rf ssh_host_dsa_key.pub ssh_host_dsa_key
> cp /etc/nxserver/users.id_dsa.pub ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
>      # Copy the generated keys to the /etc/ssh directory (I did the
> private one too, while I know that is not neccessary)
> cp /etc/nxserver/users.id_dsa ssh_host_dsa_key
> service sshd restart
>                          # Restart the SSH-server (I attach the ssh.conf
> for you)
> /usr/libexec/nx/nxserver --adduser Ronald
>              # Add myself to the users
> /usr/libexec/nx/nxserver --passwd Ronald
> /usr/libexec/nx/nxserver --start
>                      # Start the server (never saw any documentation
> about this, but I think it's neccessary)
>
> The client:
>
> Host: 127.0.0.1
>                         # Firewall configured to allow
> Password: <as entered during the --passwd Ronald>
> Key: The content of: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
>
> Ok, connection gives this:
>
> "Server not installed or NX access disabled"
>
> The log says:
> NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 15977
> NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command
> NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
> NX> 285 Setting the preferred NX options
> NX> 200 Connected to address: 127.0.0.1 on port: 22
> NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
> NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
> NX> 204 Authentication failed.
> ________________________________________________________________
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