[FreeNX-kNX] Frontend for Terminal Services

[Doug Burks]

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# HOWTO Build an NX Server Using Tao Linux
#
# There's probably a better way of doing all this,
# but this procedure works for me.
#
# Doug Burks
# 2004/09/23
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# Install Tao Linux
# (Tao Linux is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
# and is available at http://www.taolinux.org.)
#
# -Perform any installation that includes Gnome or KDE
# -Enable firewall, but allow SSH to pass through
# -Installation completes, machine reboots
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# Import RPM GPG key so we can do yum update
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rpm --import /usr/share/doc/tao-release-1.0/RPM-GPG-KEY-tao

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# Load OS updates (takes a long time)
# -necessary for a production box on the Internet
# -not necessary if only testing on a LAN
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#yum update

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# Install expect, if not already installed
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yum install expect

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# Download NX (and netcat) RPMs from SuSe
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wget ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/sndirsch/RPMS/FreeNX.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/sndirsch/RPMS/NX.rpm
wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/SuSE-Linux/i386/9.0/suse/i586/netcat-1.10-768.i586.rpm

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# RHEL has libcrypto.so.0.9.7a, 
# but NX wants libcrypto.so.0.9.7 so create a link
# You don't HAVE to do this, but if you don't then
# nxdesktop won't run. (nxdesktop is needed if you
# want to connect to Windows Terminal Servers.)
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ln -s /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7a /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7

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# Install RPMs
# An RPM dependency is libcrypto.so.0.9.7
# RHEL has libcrypto.so.0.9.7a instead
# so do rpm --nodeps to skip dependency checking
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rpm -Uvh --nodeps *NX*.rpm

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# Perform one-time nxsetup:
# /usr/bin/nxsetup
#
# If you want to use the prebuilt binaries from
# www.nomachine.com, then use the
# --setup-nomachine-key option like so:
# /usr/bin/nxsetup --setup-nomachine-key
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/usr/bin/nxsetup

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# Create users and set passwords
# (Repeat for user2, user3, etc.)
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adduser user1
passwd user1

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# We don't need to add users to NX itself since we're 
# using the default of PAM security, but if you change
# the default and have nxserver do its own account
# management, you'll need to:
# nxserver --adduser user1
# nxserver --passwd user1
# and repeat for user2, user3, etc.
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# For a little extra security, add
# the AllowUsers directive to /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
# AllowUsers nx user1 user2 user3
# Include 'nx' account and any real users.
# You probably DON'T want to include root.
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echo "AllowUsers nx user1" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
service sshd restart

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# This may be fixed in a future version of FreeNX.
# Edit /usr/bin/nxnode
# Find this line:
# mkdir -p $HOME/.ssh
# and modify it to look like this:
# mkdir -m 700 -p $HOME/.ssh
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On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:58:44 -0700, Paul D. Eden
<peden at americanphysicians.net> wrote:
> I am running Fedora and RHEL and would be very interested in your
> "recipe".
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 11:54, Doug Burks wrote:
> > Yes, this can be done with FreeNX.  I'm using the FreeNX RPMs from here:
> > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/sndirsch/RPMS/
> > on Tao Linux (a derivative of Red Hat Linux).
> >
> > I can supply my installation "recipe" if anyone is interested, but I
> > suspect most people on this mailing list are using Debian.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:22:05 +0200, Luca Corti <cortez at tiscali.it> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I've read (I don't recall where at the moment) that you can use NX as a
> > > frontend bandwidth accelerator for Windows Terminal Services. Can you do
> > > this with freenx or just with nomachine's nxserver? Is there any
> > > documentation on how to do this?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > Luca
> > >
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