[FreeNX-kNX] non-root install of freenx server in a linux environment

[Cardon Denis]

Hi Brandon,

if you have root access to an other computer on the network (for example
your own computer), then you can try to install freenx on your own
computer and then set up the DISPLAY on the application server to send
application on your new nx server (the nx server will do compression for
exported applications). This way, no need for root access on the
application server. 

if you don't have a linux around and just have windows on your
workstation, you can still install a vmware and host a linux+freenx
inside, but that may require admin rights.

if you have no computer with admin rights, one last solution would be to
install a qemu emulator, I don't think it requires root access for
installation, then you install a linux as guest os, install freenx, do
some tricky userspace port forwarding, and then you check if it works
fast enough to be usable :-)

Well,  the easiest thing would perhaps be to fire the admins and find
new ones.

Cheers,

Denis

Le samedi 11 juin 2005 à 13:11 -0700, Brandon Miller a écrit :
> At my company, all employees have laptops and connect to our linux servers
> using VNC to do work.  When working from home over VPN VNC can be a little slow
> when using some of our GUI applications, so I wanted to try out NX.... I think
> it could be a real productivity boost.
> 
> I downloaded and compiled all the free sources from NoMachine, then I grabbed
> the latest freenx scripts and tried to install.  Unfortunately, the install
> scripts require root access and try to add a new user called 'nx'.
> 
> I'm not in the IT department, I don't have root access, and they'll never
> cooperate with me and install NX.  I'm hoping that if it works well and all the
> engineers start using it to do work then IT will be forced to install and
> maintain it (not too hopeful... I've previously downloaded and compiled
> tightVNC server, which seemed to help some, and many of our engineers use it,
> although IT won't support it).
> 
> Has anyone installed the server without being root?  Is it even possible?  I
> tried playing around with the scripts, but I was unable to accomplish anything
> useful.  I'm not too worried about security... as I said we use VNC right now
> and share our VNC passwords to let people view our sessions.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
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