[FreeNX-kNX] Help with FreeNX

[Alastair Johnson]

There is nothing obviously wrong in the Arch wiki. The ssh key locations look 
odd to me as a Gentoo and Fedora user, but they each use different locations 
too. The /opt/NX path is similar to that used by nomachine's nxserver which 
is why I thought you might have had that installed the first time you 
reported problems.

The service not being available suggests an ssh authentication problem. Either 
you have provided the wrong key when configuring the client, or the server is 
not configured to use the key files for the nx user. The FAQ has a section on 
how to check the ssh configuration about a third of the way down this page:

http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=FreeNX_FAQ/Server

Once you have the ssh configuration and keys sorted out it might just work :-) 
If it doesn't then enable logging as described in the link below, and post 
logs from both /var/log/nxserver.log and ~/.nx/F-*/session and errors on the 
server, and the details of failure as shown by the client. Those will usually 
give enough information to work out what's failing. 

http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=FreeNX_FAQ/Problem_Solving

On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Bobby Gill wrote:
> I am trying to fix this again, I am going to start from scratch. Can you
> experts please look here at the Arch (my distro) wiki on FreeNX and tell me
> what may be incorrect as I have tried to follow it:
>
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FreeNX
>
> I am still confused on how to go about this. I install the nxclient and
> freenx packages but can't really get anywhere, so before I start again
> hopefully you guys can help clarify, as the wiki link above is what I've
> been trying to use. I currently have SSH set up on the server and client,
> both working perfectly. Thanks again everyone.
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Jeremy Wilkins <wjeremy at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > You might want to make sure you executed and replace [your username] with
> > the
> > user you log into NX:
> > sudo nxserver --adduser [your username]
> >
> > Bobby Gill-2 wrote:
> > > Well I am trying to connect from client and I keep getting this dialog:
> > >
> > > "The NX service is not available or the NX access was disabled on host
> > > 192.168.1.100"
> > >
> > > I run "sudo nxserver --status" on the server and it says this:
> > >
> > > "NX> 100 NXSERVER - Version 2.1.0-71 OS (GPL)
> > > NX> 110 NX Server is running
> > > NX> 999 Bye"
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Sergey Toroshchin
> > > <bublikoff at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com>
> > >>
> > >> wrote:
> > >> > When I try to install freenx, it installs the following as well:
> > >> >
> > >> > nx-common, nxserver
> > >> >
> > >> > But other users have reported it working fine, so I'm confused :/
> > >>
> > >> I can say more.
> > >> I've just finished experimenting with CentOS 5.1 + NX 3.2 + FreeNX
> >
> > 0.7.2
> >
> > >> and
> > >> it works, even CUPS printing with windows clients and PPD downloading
> > >> from windows.
> > >> But it took me some time do fix problems with CUPS and PPD and make it
> > >> to work. And now
> > >> I've prepared rpm's to redistribute them on my servers.
> > >>