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

[Nico De Ranter]

Yep, it was a key mismatch. Altough the key in the nx homedir and the
one on the client looked the same. However running 'nxsetup --install
--setup-nomachine-key --override' fixed it.

Thanks

Nico

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 09:11 -0500, Hristo Benev wrote:
> 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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