[FreeNX-kNX] Cannot connect to nxserver-freenx-0.5.0 on Gentoo

[Jeffrey Borg]

Go and install the gentoo nx overlay.

See this bug
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101691

the 0.50 version of nx server in portage is really really old!
it's a really early version and it's not the final 0.50 version.

Jeffrey


On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I installed freenx 0.5.0 on a Gentoo Linux system using the packages
>
> 	nx-x11-1.5.0-r5
> 	nxclient-1.5.0-r2
> 	nxcomp-1.5.0-r1
> 	nxproxy-1.5.0
> 	nxserver-freenx-0.5.0
> 	nxssh-1.5.0
>
> from the Gentoo Portage tree. To complete the installation, I followed
> the Gentoo Wiki at <http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_FreeNX_Server> and
> <http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HOWTO_FreeNX_Server#howto_install>. The
> only "unusal" things were:
>
> # find /usr/NX/home/nx/.ssh -type f -exec rm -f {} ';'
> # nxsetup --install
>
> After that I copied /usr/NX/home/nx/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key to my
> local client and had the nxclint 1.5.0 import the key. After
> that, I restarted the OpenSSH server on the NX host. I also added
> my user account to the list of allowed users by running "nxserver
> --adduser askwar".
>
> I then tried to connect, but it fails :( In the client, I get
> an error window showing "Server not installed or NX access
> disabled". Clicking on "Detail" shows the following:
>
> NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 18595
> NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command
> NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
> NX> 200 Connected to address: 13.33.09.4 on port: 22
> NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
> NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
> NX> 204 Authentication failed.
>
> (I changed the IP in the output above.)
>
> As this didn't work, I added a password for the account by
> doing "nxserver --passwd askwar". After this, I tried to
> login again - still fails :( Same error message as above.
>
> As the OpenSSH from Gentoo is using ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
> instead of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2, I added the contents
> of the "2 file" to the "good" file, ie: cat authorized_keys2>>authorized_keys
> Didn't help.
>
> What am I missing? What do I have to do, to get NX to
> work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alexander Skwar
>