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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hi and sorry if this has been asked before.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I am having tro</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">uble finding the needed information online anywhere.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">NX version:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">NX> 1000 NXNODE - Version 3.2.0-74-SVN OS (GPL, using backend: 3.3.0)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I have a need to do two things.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> (in FreeNX or commercial NX server)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">1. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Force</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">an application to be started on session start with no desktop (this I have partly got working by using the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">NODE_AUTOSTART="/usr/bin/firefox"</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> setting in node.cfg</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR>
<FONT FACE="Calibri">(Not without de</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">sktop showing however) it seems the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">ENABLE_ROOTLESS_MODE="1"</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> does not function as I had thought it would.<BR>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">2. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Only allowing this</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">application</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> to be launched, all ot</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">her NX client configured commands should be overridden so that this one application starts.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">So in short, I want the user to be presented with a lo</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">g</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">in application</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">when they are logged on through the NX server, also I want the desktop to be hidden and not usable for the end user.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I have not found any working wa</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">y</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> to do</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">this, some information I found about nxacl that I could not get</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">working</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> in our FreeNX</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> so far.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I was also not ab</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">le to do this in the Commercial NX server.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Has anyone tried something like this</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and got it working.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I would be grateful for any hints.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Regards,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Tom</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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