[FreeNX-kNX] connection problem relating to missing options file

[Alastair Johnson]

On Thursday 13 September 2007 03:13:09 Fernanda and John Harrington wrote:
> I'm having a problem connecting from Windows XP client, ver. 3.0.0-78,
> to freenx server (on "kitchen computer") installed from latest Seveas
> Ubuntu Feisty package (0.6.0-0~seveas2).  The session file contains:
>
> Warning: Couldn't open option file '/home/harrington/.nx/C-kitchen
> computer-1000-8E027D75A1A685ADBE307AEAE2B9A35D/options'. Error is 'No
> such file or directory'.

First time I've seen a connection from a client with a space in its name. I 
wonder if it's correctly quoted and/or escaped everywhere?

> The session generated a folder: /home/harrington/.nx/C-kitchen
> computer-1000-8E027D75A1A685ADBE307AEAE2B9A35D.  It does not contain a
> file /options.  The only things it contains are the session file and an
> empty folder named /pids.
>
> I have attached the client messages copied to a file (Nomachine
> client.odt), as well as the session and nxserver.log files.
>
> There was a post on Aug. 31 from Fabian Franz referring to an error
> caused by the server trying to resume a previous session when a recent
> version Nomachine client is used with freenx.  He provided a patch, but
> I can't figure out where the patch should be applied.  I'd be very
> grateful if someone would help me solve this problem and, if the
> solution is Herr Franz's patch, then give me instructions about how to
> apply it. thanks.

This patch was for a very old version of FreeNX. Yours is more recent so it 
will contain the changes already.