[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX in Fedora 7 refuses to work

Ronald ronald645 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 19:19:32 UTC 2007


hi everyone,

I'm posting to this list as a last resort of getting freenx to work:

I tried the distroforums first, but it seems that they don't know either:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=871332

Anyway, since this is my last resort, I will try to be as clear as 
possible of my last actions:

I installed the freenx by downloading the Fedora Core 7 packages:

yum install freenx nx

And I installed the closed source viewer from the nomachine site:

rpm -i http://64.34.161.181/download/3.0.0/Linux/nxclient-3.0.0-78.i386.rpm

Then I tried a few times (quite a lot actually without any result) to 
get the server going. This is what I tried now:

Remote data from previous attempts:
/usr/share/doc/free*/nxsetup --uninstall --purge
rm -rf /home/Ronald/.ssh /root/.ssh /home/Ronald/.nx /root/.nx
service sshd stop

Retry:
/usr/share/doc/free*/nxsetup --install                                
                   # Create my own keys
service sshd stop
cd /etc/ssh/                                                            
                            # It seems that SSH only picks up keys at 
this place (weird?)
rm -rf ssh_host_dsa_key.pub ssh_host_dsa_key
cp /etc/nxserver/users.id_dsa.pub ssh_host_dsa_key.pub                  
     # Copy the generated keys to the /etc/ssh directory (I did the 
private one too, while I know that is not neccessary)
cp /etc/nxserver/users.id_dsa ssh_host_dsa_key
service sshd restart                                                   
                         # Restart the SSH-server (I attach the ssh.conf 
for you)
/usr/libexec/nx/nxserver --adduser Ronald                              
             # Add myself to the users
/usr/libexec/nx/nxserver --passwd Ronald
/usr/libexec/nx/nxserver --start                                       
                     # Start the server (never saw any documentation 
about this, but I think it's neccessary)

The client:

Host: 127.0.0.1                                                         
                        # Firewall configured to allow
Password: <as entered during the --passwd Ronald>
Key: The content of: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key

Ok, connection gives this:

"Server not installed or NX access disabled"

The log says:
NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 15977
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: 127.0.0.1 on port: 22
NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
NX> 204 Authentication failed.



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