[FreeNX-kNX] Re: got: "cannot create directory `/home/.nx'"

[Rupert Kolb]

Christian Fischer schrieb:
[...]
>>>>running the "nxsetup" I got an
>>>>
>>>>"Setting up user nx ...mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/.nx':
>>>>Permission denied"
[...]
>>>>installed the rpms and run "nxsetup".
>>>>Any idea to do it better?
> 
> 
> Yes. Ideas to do it better you can find here:
> http://debian.tu-bs.de/knoppix/nx/freenx-0.2.5.tar.gz 
> Have a look at the gentoo-nomachine.diff
> 
> Cheers
> Christian

Thanks, now it works.

to summarise:

- for SuSE download
     i386/supplementary/X/NX/.
   from one of the mirrors

- install the rpms:
     rpm -Uhv FreeNX.rpm knx.rpm NX.rpm

- create a local group nx:
     groupadd -g 300 nx

- create a local user nx:
     useradd -c "NX system user" -d "/var/NX/home/nx" -g 300 -u 300
      -s "/usr/bin/nxserver" -m nx

- adjust the nx home directory in "nxserver":
     NX_HOME_DIR=/var/NX/home/nx/

- create an directory for ssh:
     mkdir /var/NX/home/nx/.ssh/
   and change owner and permissions:
     chown nx:nx /var/NX/home/nx/.ssh/
     chmod 700 /var/NX/home/nx/.ssh/

- run the setup:
     nxsetup --setup-nomachine-key

- start the server:
     nxserver --start

gid, uid, home directory and path to nxserver may differ.


Rupert