[FreeNX-kNX] Problems getting RDP to work.

[Alastair Johnson]

On Monday 12 November 2007, Stephen Kent wrote:
> I am trying to get FreeNX configured on CentOS 5 so that I can tunnel
> RDP sessions through.  I have followed all of the instructions at
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX
>
> I can easily connect to my GNOME desktop on the CentOS computer

Good - shows that the basics are working.

> but when 
> I try to change the connection type to Window RDP, it looks like it is
> going to connect but the window disappears I get the following when I
> try to connect:
>
>     Session centos2 failed

Can you start rdesktop from inside the GNOME session?

The Details button shows the log at the client side, but the server side log 
is usually more useful. Please enable logging on the server side as shown in 
the FAQ:
	http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=FreeNX_FAQ/Problem_Solving
The log files it produces should give more indication of where things are 
going wrong.

> Clicking the detail button reveals
>
>     Info: Display running with pid '2928' and handler '0x603e6'.
>
>     NXPROXY - Version 3.0.0
>
>     Copyright (C) 2001, 2007 NoMachine.
>     See http://www.nomachine.com/ for more information.
>
>     Info: Proxy running in client mode with pid '2708'.
>     Session: Starting session at 'Mon Nov 12 15:36:21 2007'.
>     Info: Connection with remote proxy completed.
>     Warning: Unrecognized session type 'unix-desktop'. Assuming agent
>     session.
>     Info: Using LAN link parameters 1536/24/1/0.
>     Info: Using pack method 'none' with session 'unix-desktop'.
>     Info: Not using NX delta compression.
>     Info: Not using ZLIB data compression.
>     Info: Not using ZLIB stream compression.
>     Info: Not using a persistent cache.
>     Info: Forwarding X11 connections to display ':0'.
>     Info: Forwarding auxiliary X11 connections to display ':0'.
>     Info: Listening to font server connections on port '11000'.
>     Session: Session started at 'Mon Nov 12 15:36:22 2007'.
>     Info: Established X server connection.
>     Info: Using shared memory parameters 0/0K.
>     Session: Terminating session at 'Mon Nov 12 15:36:23 2007'.
>     Session: Session terminated at 'Mon Nov 12 15:36:23 2007'.
>
> Can anybody help me here?  I'd love to get this working.
>
> Thanks,
>
> SK