[FreeNX-kNX] nxclient can't connect to freenx server anymore

Hristo Benev hristo.benev at waveroad.ca
Thu Feb 22 14:11:59 UTC 2007


Fabian Franz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been running NX on a number of Centos 4.4 systems for a while now
>> and I am very happy with it. However after a recent system upgrade I
>> suddenly can't connect to the server anymore.
>>
>> 'm currently running:
>> nxclient-2.1.0-11
>> freenx-0.5.0-12.el4.centos
>> nx-2.1.0-5.el4.centos
>>
>> When trying to connect I get the following messages:
>>
>> NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 11207
>> NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command
>> NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
>> NX> 285 Setting the preferred NX options
>> NX> 200 Connected to address: 192.168.1.1 on port: 22
>> NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
>> NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
>> NX> 204 Authentication failed.
>>
>> It looks like nxclient can't login as user 'nx' anymore on the remote
>> system. However the ssh keys seem fine. When I try to connect manually
>> using nx's private key I can logon without problems.  I have verified
>> the key for the server which is configured on the client and that looks
>> ok too.  The nxserver logs on the server are empty (but I don't think he
>> even gets that far). 
>>
>> Any idea why this may be the case or how to fix it? Any idea how to
>> increase the verbosity of the log files for nxclient?
>>     
>
> You are right this is a SSH problem, but I have no idea. Sometimes running nxsetup again can help.
>
> You might want to run sshd in debug mode.
>
> /etc/init.d/ssh stop
>
> sshd -v -v -v
>
> or so ...
>
> cu
>
> Fabian
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It could be just key mismatch....

Compare the key of the server and client.

Hristo Benev
http://hbcom.info
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