[FreeNX-kNX] Installing Freenx
Gregory Carter
gcarter at aesgi.com
Mon Feb 18 15:55:10 UTC 2008
Jim,
How long must you leave the connection going before the watchdog
signal kicks in? I left the connection up for a good 10 minutes and it
did not report any errors in the nxserver.log, or the client
session/SomeHost logs in the account .nx cookie directories for the session.
I tried running the nxserver in a 32 bit session using linux32 but
that had no effect either. So I am wondering if this might be a ssh
issue? I think I will try running sshd in a 32bit environment on the
server and see what happens.
I am curious: What exactly is the know problem you cite below that has
been fixed in the version 3.0 libraries? Is there a link I can read
about it?
-gc
Alastair Johnson wrote:
> Gregory,
>
> I just checked the versions on my FC8 64 bit box and it's showing nx version
> 2.1.0-22.fc7 which explains the problem. Apologies to whoever it was I
> questioned about this version a couple of weeks ago. This version contains a
> patch to support 64 bit, but the patch is only partially successful. It works
> perfectly for some people. Others (like me) have reported failures when
> connecting from 64 bit clients but not 32 bit clients, or vice versa, or
> success with windows clients but not linux clients. The problem is fixed in
> the 3.0 series libraries, but there isn't an FC8 binary of these yet AFAIK.
> With this bug the client will get through authentication and session setup,
> but sits for a long time at 'Established the display connection' or similar
> before failing. If you retry this a few times the failure will become
> instant. If you hit the 'Details' button the end of the log will look
> something like:
>
> Session: Session started at 'Mon Feb 18 11:20:08 2008'.
> Info: Established X server connection.
> Info: Using shared memory parameters 1/2048K.
> Session: Terminating session at 'Mon Feb 18 11:21:08 2008'.
> Info: Waiting the cleanup timeout to complete.
> Warning: Parent process appears to be dead. Exiting watchdog.
>
> Is this the sort of thing you're seeing?
>
> Jim,
>
> it sounds like your problem is ssh authentication. To check that ssh is
> correctly configured you should copy /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key to the
> client machine, making sure that it's readable only by the user. you should
> now be able to connect to the server as user nx without needing a password:
> # ssh -i /wherever/you/put/your/client.id_dsa.key nx at your.server
> HELLO NXSERVER - Version 2.1.0-71 OS (GPL)
> NX> 105
> If this doesn't work you should look at the server's ssh logs to find out why.
>
> On Sunday 17 February 2008, Gregory Carter wrote:
>
>> Yeah, have the same problem with a 64 bit install of Fedora.
>>
>> I got the exact same installation working on a 32 bit system, works fine.
>>
>> Something isn't playing cricket!
>>
>> -gc
>>
>> Jim wrote:
>>
>>> Alastair Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Saturday 09 February 2008, Jim wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Alastair Johnson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Saturday 09 February 2008, Jim wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yong Liu wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ubuntu package: freenx
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://www.datakeylive.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yong
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>> From: Jim [mailto:mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net]
>>>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 2:49 AM
>>>>>>>> To: nx
>>>>>>>> Subject: [FreeNX-kNX] Installing Freenx
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What packages do I install for freenx, for the node, server , client
>>>>>>>> ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I guess it would have been smart to let you know that I was going to
>>>>>>> install In Fedora 8.
>>>>>>> I know where the rpm's are but I don't know which ones to install for
>>>>>>> client, node, server
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> In that case all you need to do is:
>>>>>> yum install freenx
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When you set up the client you will need to set the key to match the
>>>>>> server's /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key since this is different from
>>>>>> the nomachine key.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Let me get my thinking straight,
>>>>> I take the key from server /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key and copy it
>>>>> to the client box, what's the path on the client box
>>>>> that the key goes in ?
>>>>>
>>>> It goes in the configuration GUI of the client. Rick Stout's page will
>>>> walk you through with screenshots. It may seem old (last update was for
>>>> FC5) but the GUI configuration has barely changed since then.
>>>>
>>>> http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/
>>>>
>>>> A last point which may seem obvious, but from time to time people miss
>>>> it: you'll need KDE installed to start a KDE session, and Gnome to start
>>>> a Gnome session.
>>>>
>>>> If you still have problems then check the FAQ link in the footer for
>>>> instructions on enabling logging on the server.
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>>> Trying to login the server from client and i'm getting error message:
>>>
>>> "The NX service is not available or the NX access was disabled on host
>>> 76.280.250.93."
>>>
>>> I can do a ssh -x bob at 76.280.250.93 and connect to server from client.
>>>
>>> freenx and nx is installed on FC8-x86_64 server and FC8-i386 client has
>>> nxclient-3.1.0-2 installed and
>>>
>>> /nxserver/client.id_dsa_key is copyied into nxclient-3.1.0-2 on client
>>> box.
>>>
>>> What am I not doing right ??
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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