[FreeNX-kNX] Negotiating Link Parameters

[Joe Baker]

Joe Baker wrote the following on 07/26/2007 10:35 AM:
> jim tate wrote the following on 07/24/2007 04:02 PM:
>   
>> Running NX on a remote client that worked fine. until,
>> I installed a Linksys WRT54G router in front of the remote client and 
>> did a "Port Forwarding"
>> in the Linksys to the remote client, and I can communicate perfectly 
>> with remote client using SSH -X in Linux, Both Computers are Fedora 
>> Linux, but when I run NX to connect, it says
>> "Authenticating Completed" then when it says it is "Negotiating Link 
>> Parameters"
>> and it fails to connect.
>>   
>>     
> Hi Jim,
>
> I have seen this Negociating Link Parameters thing from time to time
> which causes a timeout.  Sometimes even after the screen comes up and is
> usable.  I think it has something to do with a past client session still
> running.  It's easiest to ask the user to log out of their local desktop
> session (killing off old NXclient session processes).  After logging
> back in they seem to be able to login again.
>
> -Joe
>   
I've actually tracked this down further.  Instead of logging out a user
can use the Windows Task Manager to kill off processes:

nxssh
cygserver

Usually nxesd will die off as a result of killing nxssh.

Then try connecting again.
-Joe Baker