[FreeNX-kNX] Negotiating Link Parameters

[Durk Strooisma]

> 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

Exactly like you say. Some time ago there were some discussions on this
issue here. In one of them a (server-side) work-around was proposed. You
might want to take a look in the history of this mailing list (just search
on something like "Negotiating Link Parameters").

Durk