[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX development questions

[Ben Goodrich]

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Hi,

> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> 
> I didn't understand your initial question either.

>> Fabian Franz wrote:
>> I don't know what the hell you are talking about  :-D .
>>
>> cu
>>
>> Fabian

I think Fabian may have understood the original question more than he
was letting on :-D . But in case anyone else didn't understand where I
was headed, here is a sketch. Basically, it is a proposed alternative to
and improvement upon the ENABLE_USERMODE idea at

http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=FreeNX_Howto .

Take any old Linux box at IP address AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA and as root,
install a future version of FreeNX. Then, ssh into a high capacity
remote server (that, for example, refuses to install NX) at IP address
BBB.BBB.BBB.BBB and

wget nxclient_2.0.x.tar.gz
tar zxvf nxclient_2.0.x.tar.gz
wget nxnode_2.0.x.tar.gz
tar zxvf nxnode_2.0.x.tar.gz

which will make a NX directory in $HOME with the necessary binaries and
some configuration files. (I think the critical thing is that nxnode
depends on nxclient but neither depends on nxserver.)

Then, edit $HOME/NX/etc/node.cfg so that

AGENT_LIBRARY_PATH = "$HOME/NX/lib"
PROXY_LIBRARY_PATH = "$HOME/NX/lib"
SSHD_AUTH_SERVER = "AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA"

and setup the NX keys appropriately (and the statistics logging stuff if
you want)

Then, log out of the remote server and on the machine you installed
FreeNX on, edit /etc/nxserver/node.conf so that

LOAD_BALANCE_SERVERS="BBB.BBB.BBB.BBB"

and change the LOAD_BALANCE_ALGORITHM if you want.

Finally, start the FreeNX server and, if something like the above is
accurate, the FreeNX server will check in at BBB.BBB.BBB.BBB and find
another node to execute processes on.

It seems like the NX Advanced Server does something like this (if you
pay for it) and the FreeNX changelog now mentions "nxnode slave mode",
so I was just wondering if this included the situation where the nxnodes
were established on Linux servers where you don't have root access.
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