[FreeNX-kNX] Problems getting RDP to work.

[Stephen Kent]

Ok.  That worked great.  I had to learn a few new things but that is  
a good thing.  Now my issue is that I'd like the connections to be in  
full color.  In the setup of NX Client for Windows 3, I have checked  
the custom settings and selected 16M colors.  Connecting then still  
only gives me 256 colors.

Any ideas on this?

Thanks,

Steve

On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Iain Paton wrote:

> 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
>
> those instructions are somewhat dated, you may want to do some more  
> digging when using a 3.0.0 backend.
>
>> I can easily connect to my GNOME desktop on the CentOS computer  
>> 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:
>
> freenx isn't the greatest at logging failures, I had lots of  
> problems with the window simply closing with no clue as to the  
> error while getting 3.0.0 running.
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> 1. grab the latest freenx from svn, some stuff for 3.0.0 backend is  
> missing in 0.7.1
> 2. install rdesktop: http://www.rdesktop.org/ or potentially  
> whatever comes with your distro. This seems to have changed with  
> the 3.0.0 backend, it wants the external rdesktop prog and not the  
> nxdesktop variant. I'm using rdesktop 1.5.0.
> 3. make sure your freenx has nxdesktop_helper installed in the  
> appropriate place
> 4. in node.conf add/change to the following:
> # The key that contains the name of the complete path of the  
> 'rdesktop' command.
> COMMAND_RDESKTOP=rdesktop
>
> and possibly also
>
> # If nxdesktop cannot be found this is set automatically to "1".
> ENABLE_EXTERNAL_NXDESKTOP="1"
>
> although I didn't need that as I killed off nxdesktop when I  
> removed the previous version.
>
> YMMV, but this works for me using the !M 3.0.0-84 client from linux  
> and has worked for others using the !M windows client.
>
> HTH,
> Iain
>