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<font size="-1">hi,<br>
<br>
Firsteval I would like to say how beautiful it can be to play with a
passive terminal at 9600 or 14400 bps ! I'm dicovering agin the
pleasure of passive terminal. VNC is not able to manage low bandwitdh
links.<br>
Bravo !<br>
<br>
Now the problems.<br>
I'm facing with a huge problem : the lacks of debbuging information in
nxfreenx client (and server).<br>
<br>
</font><font size="-1">Firsteval, I'm not RedHat, no debvian no gentoo.
I'm Slackware.<br>
</font><font size="-1">And you'll tell me that there is a installation
script.
But this script only exist for some distributions and I can't trust a
script to install something like NX. I have to understand what are the
links between Nx and the rest<br>
of the OS.<br>
</font><font size="-1">That's a pity for me ? Not at all. Everything is
well working even the
audio/video productis installed.<br>
<br>
The pb with Freenx is its lacks of external dicumentation explaining
what is the role of such or such a module (the documentation is on the
nomachine site)<br>
and, above all, internal debugging facilities.<br>
<br>
</font><font size="-1"><br>
Firsteval, no problem with SSH or authentification methods.<br>
I
</font><font size="-1">have been used to configure such things for many
year. So no problem despite the fact that the documentation doesn't
explain that the client/server are running under a different user that
the one that tries to connect.<br>
<br>
The first try with a Windows client doesn't yields anything, of course.<br>
I discovered something that could help : my glibc library was not up to
date according to what the Xcomp library claims. Xcomp used to claim
for GLIBC 2.3.4 whereas I was GLIBC 2.3.3.<br>
Ok, got further.<br>
Then I got a error, on the client, that said "Session '<name>"
failed".<br>
I looked for many hours about that error message without discovering
anything.<br>
Why ? Not error message in the log on the client side.<br>
No error in the nxserver.log. Nothing.<br>
<br>
Finally I disovered some messages in the termporary sesion log that
exists on the server (C-local..../options). It's a TEMPORARY log that
exists only the time of the session that is only a few seconds when you
don't have any session likle I did.<br>
And found that I missed<br>
the ENABLE_1_5_0_BACKEND=1 déclaration in the node.conf file on the
server side !!!!<br>
Where is that explained ? Nowhere !<br>
<br>
Just after that point, the NXclient let me see paradise : it worked
immediatly and really well. Terrific ! Good job ! I'm going to buy a
license.<br>
<br>
<br>
Now, let's go with the linux client.<br>
<br>
Nxclient is 1.5.0 the same minor release as the server and as the
windows
client.<br>
And the result is ?<br>
No chance : doesn't work. I'm just able to see the maxi !M machine one
second before the X server stops.<br>
<br>
Why ? Don't know, no error message anywhere. Except that in a temporary
log it is explained that the client, this time, closed the connection.<br>
There is also a message saying that there is a error in nxserver on
ligne 1041 with a variable named something TIMEOUT.<br>
There is no variable named something TIMEOUT in the nxserver script at
line 1041, it is on line 875 : AGENT_STARTUP_TIMEOUT and I donét know
how to change its value (but by replacing it). Lack of documentation
one more time !<br>
</font><font size="-1">
<br>
Why does my linux client not work whereas at the same place the windows
client does ? I don't know there is no documentation available.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><br>
So now, I have a terrific NX instalation that works well with a windows
client but doesn't work with a linux
client. <br>
Is someone can certify that it will keep on working at the next release
of FreeNx, Nxserver, nxclient, etc ? No one I suppose.<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
<br>
<br>
db<br>
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