[FreeNX-kNX] NX not working behind nat: "Error: Failure negotiating the session in stage '10'."

[Fabian Franz]

> Fabian Franz wrote:
> >> Info: Connection with remote proxy established.
> >> Info: Synchronizing local and remote caches.
> >> Error: The remote NX proxy closed the connection.
> >> Error: Failure negotiating the session in stage '10'.
> >>     
> >
> > This means synchronization somewhere goes wrong.
> >
> > Have never seen that before ...
> >
> > Consider removing all .nx directories/files on all clients and servers
> and try again.
> >   
> I've tried several client computers, and cleared out .nx directories 
> several times, exact same result.
> 
> Has anyone built a debug version and tried to run nxproxy under gdb?

Yes, its quite easy.

> I 
> find the nomachines build from source docs a little hard to follow. 

Download and extract all tar.gz, install build dependencies, cd nx-X11, make World

For only proxy:

cd nxcomp
./configure
make
cd ../nxproxy
./configure
make

>Does 
> anyone have instructions on running the server side "by hand" with the 
> nomachines windows client on the other side?

Forget it. And keep windows out of play first if possible.

You can't run the server side by hand.

You can however use nxshell by SuSE or nxtunnel for creating a manual connection over ssh.

cu

Fabian