[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX + VNC: Failure
Felix E. Klee
fk at linuxburg.de
Tue Sep 6 15:29:43 UTC 2005
I've tried several configurations for connecting to a remote VNC server
via NX, all unsuccessfully: For example, I've setup the following system
in VMWare 5.0.0 (I've also made tests with real machines):
* SuSE 9.2 (I've also tried SuSE 8.2)
* I installed NX 1.5.0 plus FreeNX 0.4.4 (RPMs where built from
source/nosource RPMS provided for SuSE 10.0: NX-1.5.0-17.nosrc.rpm,
FreeNX-0.4.1-1.1.src.rpm).
* I installed the VNC packages x11vnc-0.7.2-1.guru.suse92.i686.rpm (from
external source) and tightvnc-1.2.9-181 (part of SuSE 9.2).
I then tried to connect to the system using nxclient 1.5.0-106:
* Remote X11-via-NX sessions work flawlessly.
* VNC-via-NX sessions fail with TightVNC (started with "vncserver" -
creates a new display) and x11vnc (takes over an existing display).
The problem:
- After authentication, nxclient successfully shows a window with the
remote desktop.
- However, it seems that the data stream from the NX' VNC-client back
to the remote VNC server is totally unreliable: I cannot click on
anything in the remote desktop, and sometimes random click events
occur. Also I've seent the remote desktop redraw slowly, sometimes
not at all.
- After a while, nxclient shows a dialog window informing me that the
session terminates.
As a next step, I plan to test the commercial NX version, but first I'd
like to know:
Has anyone successfully used FreeNX/NX to connect via VNC?
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Felix E. Klee
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