[FreeNX-kNX] What does client connect to?

[Kurt Granroth]

On Nov 11, 2005, at 1:51 PM, Rob Brandt wrote:
> I'm investigating FreeNX server and client here.  Excuse the non- 
> technical
> questions please; the nomachine site's docs don't seem to be  
> organized very
> well and searching on them doesn't seem to reveal the info I need.   
> Plus the
> confusion betweem commercial/open source, client/server, what they  
> promote vs.
> what it will do.
>
> I remember hearing about it last year some time, and now a need has  
> arisen but
> it seems different than I remember.  I remember the client being a
> "generalized" remote client in which you could connect to a NX server
> (optimized X Sessions?), Windows Remote Desktop, VNC or a statndard  
> X (KDE,
> Gnome, etc) session.  This implied to me that the client could be  
> used without
> having to install the server if you didn't want to install NX  
> server on the
> server itself.  That's what I prefer to do.
>
> If this is true, how?  I have been trying to do this off and on for  
> a couple of
> days now without good results.  I have a new debian server, amd64,  
> and have ssh
> working remotely using key encryption with putty.  However when I  
> use the same
> info to connect through NX Client (on Windows), I get a message  
> "Authentication
> failed for user [me]".  The "Detail" button is disabled.  I have  
> Desktop =
> Unix/GNOME, but it fails for any Unix option, including Custom/Run  
> the Console.
>
> What am I missing here?

The NX Client is not quite as "generalized" as you thought it was.   
It can be used to connect to a Windows Remote Desktop, a VNC server,  
or an X (KDE/Gnome/other) session... but it does it via the NX  
Server.  So no matter what, you must have an NX server running remotely.

In the case of RDP and VNC, the client authenticates against the NX  
Server and then the NX Server effectively becomes the RDP/VNC client  
for some other remote server.  The resulting data is then streamed  
back through the NX Server to your Client.

KurtG