Hi folks.. New subscriber here, I had just been told about this new and interesting alternative to VNC and of course couldn't wait to try it, but I seem to be having a problem now. :(<br><br>I have control of a friends machine across the city, (root access) and it is running FC5. Coming from an only-Debian background I sought out a HOWTO on how to accomplish this.. The HOWTO literally only consisted of telling me to type 'yum install nxserver'
<br><br>So this completes, and it appears to start/stop the SSH daemon and doesn't give any overly troubling output or anything, indicating I would think everything is OK. So I install the NXCLIENT onto my Laptop (Kubuntu) and try to connect. That gives me an authentication failure.
<br><br>So I read on, and then see that I need a copy of /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key to be imported to my client. So I do that, and try again. Same thing happens.<br><br>I google around, away from that HOWTO, and find an omitted (apparently important) step, so I execute
<br><br>nxserver --adduser myname<br>nxserver --passwd myname<br><br>and then try again.. I almost finally get excited because the client (Which is EXTREMELY unhelpful in debugging; half the time the stupid Details button stays greyed out so you haven't the slightest clue what is going on) finally says "Authentication Completed!" and I'm anxiously & eagerly awaiting my WM to pop up, but lo and behold, after about a minute of just sitting there finally craps out with a "Connection timeout" error.
<br><br>Luckily, the Details button is NOT greyed out for once. Here is its output:<br><br># CODE #<br><br>NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 20061<br>NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command<br>NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
<br>NX> 285 Setting the preferred NX options<br>NX> 200 Connected to address: <a href="http://69.158.164.99">69.158.164.99</a> on port: 22<br>NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx<br>NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
<br>HELLO NXSERVER - Version 1.5.0-50 OS (GPL)<br>NX> 105 hello NXCLIENT - Version 1.5.0<br>NX> 134 Accepted protocol: 1.5.0<br>NX> 105 SET SHELL_MODE SHELL<br>NX> 105 SET AUTH_MODE PASSWORD<br>NX> 105 login
<br>NX> 101 User: duckdown<br>NX> 102 Password: <br>NX> 103 Welcome to: localhost user: duckdown<br>NX> 105 listsession --user="duckdown" --status="suspended,running" --geometry="1400x1050x24+render" --type="unix-xdm"
<br>NX> 127 Sessions list of user 'duckdown' for reconnect:<br><br>Display Type Session ID Options Depth Screen Status Session Name<br>------- ---------------- -------------------------------- -------- ----- -------------- ----------- ------------------------------
<br><br><br>NX> 148 Server capacity: not reached for user: duckdown<br>NX> 105 startsession --xdm_port="-1" --link="adsl" --backingstore="1" --nodelay="1" --encryption="1" --cache="8M" --images="32M" --media="0" --session="macder" --type="unix-xdm" --geometry="1024x768+188+117" --kbtype="pc105/us" --screeninfo="1024x768x24+render"
<br><br>ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host<br>Killed by signal 15.<br><br># END CODE #<br><br><br>So it looks like I'm almost there, but have obviously hit a brick wall.. I tried multiple times but the result is always the same. Is this because I already have my public ssh key setup on this shell by any chance? (I just learned how to do that too, heh!)
<br><br>My knowledge is definitely at the beginner level still, so ANY help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated. I can't wait to get some use out of this machine and play around with some different window managers; and most importantly, do my work directly on the machine in a GUI environment.
<br><br>Thanks in advance, eagerly awaiting some help :(<br><br>-Joe<br>